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Compile categorical string lookup with native PyTorch operations - #1275
Match string categories in AlignCategories with native PyTorch operations on CUDA, so torch.compile(model.predict, fullgraph=True) traces the lookup instead of calling cuDF through the sdm::string_category_lookup custom op. It is faster than the cuDF path and uses no more memory, eager and compiled.
Description of the change
Fitting hashes every byte of each fitted string label, with its length and column, and keeps the sorted hashes in non-persistent buffers. Loading a fitted state hashes them again, so nothing new is saved in the state dict. Each call hashes the query labels the same way, looks them up among the sorted fitted hashes and confirms every candidate by comparing bytes. Hash collisions therefore never produce a wrong match, and the last of duplicate fitted labels wins, as before. Labels of any length take the same path.
Eager code reads labels in bounded blocks, and short labels in one narrow chunk, to keep temporaries small. Compiled code hashes fixed 64-byte chunks that Inductor fuses.
Aligned codes come from one gather over a concatenated lookup table, where each column's block ends with -1 for missing codes. Empty vocabularies therefore need no size-dependent branch.
The custom op is removed. Eager CPU code keeps the existing Arrow join; compiled CPU code uses the native lookup.
Validation
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, PyTorch 2.14.1, cuDF 26.10. Default torch.compile settings, warm timings, each case in a fresh process. Peak memory counts PyTorch and cuDF allocations together through one RMM pool.
Whole torch.compile(model.predict, fullgraph=True), ms / max peak MiB:
Dataset
Main eager
Eager
Compiled
credit-g
126 / 234.5
99 / 234.5
51 / 168.0
Diabetes130US
248 / 478.7
214 / 478.7
160 / 363.3
kddcup09_appetency
411 / 2237.2
375 / 2237.2
285 / 1769.5
Amazon_employee_access
192 / 214.9
171 / 214.9
136 / 152.3
Food_Delivery_Time
188 / 136.8
172 / 136.8
132 / 95.9
synthetic-text
164 / 87.9
156 / 87.9
110 / 61.7
AlignCategories(sort_by="value").transform alone, over 35 prediction batches, total ms / max peak KiB:
Dataset
Main eager
Eager
Compiled
credit-g
332 / 47.7
117 / 42.2
66 / 25.4
Diabetes130US
562 / 327.3
261 / 283.9
264 / 156.2
kddcup09_appetency
557 / 2631.5
209 / 1363.9
216 / 655.7
Amazon_employee_access
275 / 942.5
95 / 493.0
49 / 317.3
Food_Delivery_Time
218 / 188.2
75 / 127.0
26 / 47.6
synthetic-text
212 / 1258.9
145 / 716.7
26 / 107.3
A synthetic sweep of 63 cases also beats main eager in every case, eager and compiled, in time and peak memory. It covers labels of 8 to 4096 bytes, vocabularies of 100 to 200,000 labels, 1,000 and 100,000 query rows, shared prefixes, labels differing only in the middle, non-ASCII labels, unknown labels and four columns at once. For example, 200,000 fitted labels of 4096 bytes with 100,000 query rows take 15.8 ms / 2.80 GB on main, 8.1 ms / 1.44 GB eager and 3.3 ms / 50 MB compiled.
Codes match main in every case, eager and compiled. A randomized check against a reference lookup, with forced hash collisions, empty, non-ASCII and 70,000-byte labels, and sliced and broadcast tensors, found no mismatches. test/processing/categorical and test/tensor pass on CUDA. Hashing fitted labels adds 2 to 6 ms to fitting or loading on CUDA.
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# Summary
Copy each string vocabulary into its own CUDA memory in
`TableTensor.from_pandas(..., device="cuda")`, instead of splitting one
shared copy into views. This fixes recompiles on almost every batch in
compiled `predict` and compiled preprocessing, and a compiled crash in
the native category lookup of #1275.
# Description of the change
**What this fixes.**
- **Recompiles:** compiled `model.predict` and compiled processors such
as `AlignCategories.transform` recompile whenever the vocabulary sizes
of a batch differ from the previous one, which is almost every batch.
- **Crash:** with the native category lookup of #1275, compiled
`AlignCategories.transform` fails on Food_Delivery_Time and credit-g
(`NameError: name 's55' is not defined`).
**Why this is needed even though `from_pandas` runs before the model.**
`from_pandas` itself is never compiled, but the tables it builds are the
inputs of compiled `model.predict` and processors such as
`AlignCategories.transform`. `torch.compile` guards on the layout of
every input. For a `StringTensor`, that layout includes its storage
offset, which `__tensor_flatten__` returns as metadata. Dynamo compares
that metadata by equality on every call
([`check_subclass_metadata`](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/v2.14.0/torch/_dynamo/guards.py#L1185-L1190)),
so a new storage offset means a new graph.
On main, `from_pandas` concatenates all string vocabularies, copies them
to the device once and splits the copy into views
(`torch.cat(tensors).to(device).split(sizes)`). A view's storage offset
is the total size of the vocabularies before it, so it changes from
batch to batch:
```python
import pandas as pd
import torch
from sdm import TableTensor
compiled = torch.compile(lambda x: x.clone())
for first in (["x", "x", "x"], ["x", "yy", None]):
df = pd.DataFrame({"a": first, "b": ["z" * 20, None, "w"]})
table = TableTensor.from_pandas(
df, stypes={"a": "categorical", "b": "categorical"}, device="cuda"
)
vocabulary = table.categorical.categories[1]
print(vocabulary.storage_offset()) # main: 1, then 2
compiled(vocabulary) # main: compiles a second graph
```
The shared-buffer views also break the native category lookup in #1275,
in Inductor-generated `while_loop` code.
**The change.** Plain tensor vocabularies of one dtype still move
together. String vocabularies now move one by one with `.to(device)`,
which copies only each vocabulary's own bytes, offsets and validity, so
each starts at storage offset 0, like a CPU vocabulary, and batches no
longer differ in layout.
Only `from_pandas` with a non-CPU device is affected. `from_arrow`,
`from_cudf` and `.to(device)` of a CPU table move or build each
vocabulary on its own and do not pack them into one buffer.
# Validation
NVIDIA L4, PyTorch 2.14.1+cu130: `test/tensor` passed on CUDA. The
script above compiles a second graph on main and reuses the first graph
with this change.
`TableTensor.from_pandas(..., device="cuda")` on the context table and
35 prediction batches per dataset, three passes, two runs each. Peak is
device memory allocated above the starting point.
| Dataset | String columns | Main p50 ms | This p50 ms | Main peak KiB |
This peak KiB |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| credit-g | 13 | 3.49 | 4.04 | 36.0 | 47.5 |
| Diabetes130US | 39 | 8.13 | 10.45 | 1544.0 | 1578.0 |
| kddcup09_appetency | 38 | 7.89 | 10.06 | 1866.5 | 1892.5 |
| Amazon_employee_access | 9 | 2.79 | 3.04 | 479.5 | 482.0 |
| Food_Delivery_Time | 3 | 1.66 | 1.54 | 146.0 | 148.0 |
| synthetic-text | 3 | 1.50 | 1.38 | 459.5 | 461.5 |
Building a table is up to 2.3 ms slower with many string columns, since
each vocabulary is a separate copy, and peak memory is up to 34 KiB
higher. Staging all vocabularies in one pinned buffer and copying them
in one batch was about 1.4 ms faster on Diabetes130US, but needed about
50 lines of offset bookkeeping.
Improved alignment of string categories, including columns with missing values, empty data, duplicate labels, or differing category types.
Fixed lookups for long category labels and cases where distinct labels share a hash.
Improved alignment for ensembles containing string categories.
Performance
Improved string-category lookup for CUDA and compiled workloads, including queries of varying sizes. eager CPU lookups continue to use the existing join-based approach.
The change adds a native, slot-aware string-category index and integrates it into category alignment. The index handles hash collisions, duplicate labels, and broadcast queries. Alignment uses lookup results to remap category codes, with added coverage for edge cases and compiled execution.
Changes: Categorical string alignment
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Build and query the string index sdm/processing/categorical/_string_lookup.py
Adds a slot-aware index and matching logic. Hash matches are verified against label bytes. Duplicate labels are deduplicated, and unmatched queries return -1.
Integrate indexed lookup into alignment sdm/processing/categorical/align.py, test/processing/categorical/test_align.py
Fitting and state loading rebuild the string index. Alignment uses lookup results to remap codes. Tests cover long labels, duplicates, collisions, missing values, and compiled lookups.
sequenceDiagram
participant AlignCategories
participant _index_strings
participant _string_category_lookup
participant _align_columns
AlignCategories->>_index_strings: build fitted string index
AlignCategories->>_string_category_lookup: match input categories by fitted slot
_string_category_lookup-->>AlignCategories: return row IDs or -1
AlignCategories->>_align_columns: apply lookup tables to category codes
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The new native string lookup replaces the custom op and is reported to match the previous results. Two narrow gaps remain. In compiled execution, a mismatched category type silently yields -1 codes instead of the eager error. A processor built under compilation may also lack its string index after loading saved state. Both should be fixed, but neither is likely to be widespread.
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452-467: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Compiled code turns a category type mismatch into -1 codes without an error.
Under torch.compile, the mismatch check is skipped. A non-empty query column with the wrong category type gets -1 for every code in that column. Eager mode raises NotImplementedError for the same input, so compiled and eager results differ silently.
Keep the check in compiled mode. Use torch._check there and keep the eager raise unchanged:
Proposed fix
- if (- not torch.compiler.is_compiling()- and input_categories.numel() != 0- ):+ if torch.compiler.is_compiling():+ torch._check(+ input_categories.numel() == 0,+ "Cannot align string categories with non-string categories",+ )+ elif input_categories.numel() != 0:
raise NotImplementedError(
"Cannot align string categories with non-string "
"categories"
)
This keeps the eager NotImplementedError contract. sdm/tensor/categorical.py already uses torch._check on a numel() condition. Check recompilation behavior under backed size-oblivious tracing, because a numel() condition can add a size guard there.
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Update the category type-mismatch check around input_categories so compiled
execution uses torch._check to require an empty category set, while eager
execution retains its existing NotImplementedError for non-empty categories.
Ensure mismatches cannot silently produce all -1 codes, and account for backed
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Pass keyword arguments in this multi-line call.
The call _align_columns(codes, fitted_categories, lookups_by_column, string_requests) spans several lines but uses positional arguments.
As per path instructions: "keyword arguments in multi-line calls".
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Update the multi-line `_align_columns` call to pass `codes`,
`fitted_categories`, `lookups_by_column`, and `string_requests` as keyword
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AlignCategories matches CUDA string categories in PyTorch, eager and
compiled. Fitting and loading hash every fitted label; each call hashes
the query labels, looks them up among the sorted fitted hashes and
confirms candidates by comparing bytes.
Fitting now hashes string labels with seed 0, 1, ... until distinct
labels have distinct hashes, so a query has exactly one candidate to
compare byte by byte. This replaces the collision depth and the
multi-candidate lookup. The seed is derived when categories are fitted
or loaded and is not saved.
Also drop the single-batch special case when gathering aligned codes.
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Rebuild the native string index after loading state on compile-constructed processors.
When AlignCategories is constructed while torch.compiler.is_compiling() is true, it does not register the load-state-dict post-hook. Loading state restores _categories, but it does not rebuild _string_slots or the non-persistent string-index buffers. A later CUDA or compiled string transform can therefore fail at self._string_slots[batch_index][column_index].
The inspected ensemble paths do not replace _categories, and they already pass the global member offset. Restrict this fix to the load-state-dict path.
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Update the AlignCategories load-state-dict path to rebuild the native string
index and its non-persistent buffers from the restored categories, using the
existing _set_categories and _index_strings flow where appropriate. Ensure this
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Summary
Match string categories in
AlignCategorieswith native PyTorch operations on CUDA, sotorch.compile(model.predict, fullgraph=True)traces the lookup instead of calling cuDF through thesdm::string_category_lookupcustom op. It is faster than the cuDF path and uses no more memory, eager and compiled.Description of the change
Fitting hashes every byte of each fitted string label, with its length and column, and keeps the sorted hashes in non-persistent buffers. Loading a fitted state hashes them again, so nothing new is saved in the state dict. Each call hashes the query labels the same way, looks them up among the sorted fitted hashes and confirms every candidate by comparing bytes. Hash collisions therefore never produce a wrong match, and the last of duplicate fitted labels wins, as before. Labels of any length take the same path.
Eager code reads labels in bounded blocks, and short labels in one narrow chunk, to keep temporaries small. Compiled code hashes fixed 64-byte chunks that Inductor fuses.
Aligned codes come from one gather over a concatenated lookup table, where each column's block ends with -1 for missing codes. Empty vocabularies therefore need no size-dependent branch.
The custom op is removed. Eager CPU code keeps the existing Arrow join; compiled CPU code uses the native lookup.
Validation
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, PyTorch 2.14.1, cuDF 26.10. Default
torch.compilesettings, warm timings, each case in a fresh process. Peak memory counts PyTorch and cuDF allocations together through one RMM pool.Whole
torch.compile(model.predict, fullgraph=True), ms / max peak MiB:AlignCategories(sort_by="value").transformalone, over 35 prediction batches, total ms / max peak KiB:A synthetic sweep of 63 cases also beats main eager in every case, eager and compiled, in time and peak memory. It covers labels of 8 to 4096 bytes, vocabularies of 100 to 200,000 labels, 1,000 and 100,000 query rows, shared prefixes, labels differing only in the middle, non-ASCII labels, unknown labels and four columns at once. For example, 200,000 fitted labels of 4096 bytes with 100,000 query rows take 15.8 ms / 2.80 GB on main, 8.1 ms / 1.44 GB eager and 3.3 ms / 50 MB compiled.
Codes match main in every case, eager and compiled. A randomized check against a reference lookup, with forced hash collisions, empty, non-ASCII and 70,000-byte labels, and sliced and broadcast tensors, found no mismatches.
test/processing/categoricalandtest/tensorpass on CUDA. Hashing fitted labels adds 2 to 6 ms to fitting or loading on CUDA.