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Adds a Fine-Tuning guide that explains how full fine-tuning of tabular foundation models works through the ICL interface. It also reports the fine-tuning benchmark results and gives measured guidance on context size, query size, learning rate, and inference context reduction.
Explain full fine-tuning of tabular foundation models through the ICL interface, summarize the fine-tuning benchmark results, and add measured guidance on context size, query size, learning rate, and inference context reduction.
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Fix the training recipe and code snippets, state how the benchmark harness differs from the example, scope the hyperparameter guidance to the measured datasets, and link to other guides instead of restating them.
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Added a guide to full fine-tuning for TabICLv2 and KumoTabular, covering data splits, training recipes, loss functions, checkpoint selection, benchmark results, and inference with smaller contexts.
Added the guide to the documentation index.
The documentation adds a full fine-tuning guide for TabICLv2 and KumoTabular. It covers data splits, training, validation, benchmark results, hyperparameter sweeps, and inference with smaller contexts.
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Data splits and recipe setup docs/source/finetuning.md, docs/source/index.md
The guide describes the fine-tuning setup, 60/20/20 data partitions, and recipe changes for classification and regression. The Guides toctree now links to the guide.
Training and checkpoint selection docs/source/finetuning.md
The guide shows classification and regression losses, validation-based checkpoint selection, and test evaluation.
Benchmarks and hyperparameter results docs/source/finetuning.md
The guide reports benchmark outcomes, reproduction commands, and results from hyperparameter sweeps.
Inference with smaller contexts docs/source/finetuning.md
The guide demonstrates fitting with a sampled context and compares fine-tuned and pretrained scores across context sizes.
NVIDIA/structured-data-models#1283: Changes to benchmark preprocessing affect the input representation used for the documented KumoTabular fine-tuning results.
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Correct the three guide claims before relying on it for reproducible fine-tuning and checkpoint selection.
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- Around line 159-176: Update the evaluation function in the finetuning example
to branch on task type: retain class-index accuracy for classification, and
compute RMSE for numerical regression targets. Adjust checkpoint selection to
maximize accuracy for classification and minimize RMSE for regression,
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to_class_indices(...) and F.cross_entropy(...) run for every task. A numerical regression target has no categorical columns, so to_class_indices(...) raises before the pinball loss or optimizer step. Keep the classification path conditional and compute the documented pinball loss in the regression path.
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- logits, y = sdm.evaluation.to_class_indices(- pred=out,- target=query["target"],- missing_score=-torch.inf,- )- loss = F.cross_entropy(logits, y)+ if task == "classification":+ logits, y = sdm.evaluation.to_class_indices(+ pred=out,+ target=query["target"],+ missing_score=-torch.inf,+ )+ loss = F.cross_entropy(logits, y)+ else:+ diff = query["target"].numerical - out.numerical # [Q, 999]+ level = torch.linspace(0.001, 0.999, 999, device="cuda")+ loss = torch.maximum(level * diff, (level - 1) * diff).mean()
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Update the loss calculation in the training loop to branch on task: keep
to_class_indices and F.cross_entropy for classification, and compute the
documented pinball loss from the numerical targets and predictions for
regression. Ensure regression skips categorical conversion.
Minor · Attribute FlipSign removal to TabICLv2. · finetuning.md:82-92
KumoTabular already has no FlipSign in its default regression target. TabICLv2 does. The current instruction can confuse KumoTabular users into changing a recipe unnecessarily. Update the model attribution:
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-For regression with {py:class}`~sdm.models.KumoTabular`, also remove sign flipping ({py:class}`~sdm.processing.numerical.FlipSign`) from the target pipeline.+For regression with {py:class}`~sdm.models.TabICLv2`, also remove sign flipping ({py:class}`~sdm.processing.numerical.FlipSign`) from the target pipeline.
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Update the model attribution in the regression instruction: replace KumoTabular
with TabICLv2 as the model whose target pipeline requires removing FlipSign.
Keep the explanation and example unchanged.
Minor · Add the ScoringBench reproduction command, or remove the ScoringBench… · finetuning.md:218-229
Add the ScoringBench reproduction command, or remove the ScoringBench reference.
The sentence before the command block says to add --finetune to the TALENT and ScoringBench runners. The block supplies commands only for TALENT and TabArena. A reader cannot reproduce ScoringBench results from this section. The ScoringBench runner also requires --scoringbench-path, which the section does not mention.
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Add a ScoringBench reproduction command to the command block alongside the
existing TALENT and TabArena examples. Use the
`benchmark.tabular.scoringbench.main` runner, include the required
`--scoringbench-path` argument and `--finetune`, and specify the model option;
otherwise remove ScoringBench from the introductory sentence.
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- Around line 82-92: Update the model attribution in the regression instruction:
replace KumoTabular with TabICLv2 as the model whose target pipeline requires
removing FlipSign. Keep the explanation and example unchanged.
- Around line 102-115: Update the loss calculation in the training loop to
branch on task: keep to_class_indices and F.cross_entropy for classification,
and compute the documented pinball loss from the numerical targets and
predictions for regression. Ensure regression skips categorical conversion.
- Around line 218-229: Add a ScoringBench reproduction command to the command
block alongside the existing TALENT and TabArena examples. Use the
`benchmark.tabular.scoringbench.main` runner, include the required
`--scoringbench-path` argument and `--finetune`, and specify the model option;
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The statement that both pipelines stay unchanged conflicts with the following KumoTabular regression instruction to remove FlipSign. If a reader follows the unchanged-pipeline statement, FlipSign remains while sp.Identity() does not re-sort the reversed quantiles. The guide can therefore lead users to train with reversed regression quantiles.
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-The feature and target pipelines stay unchanged: they turn raw columns into the inputs that the pretrained model expects, and evaluation and inference use them too.+The feature pipeline stays unchanged. The target pipeline also stays unchanged, except that KumoTabular regression requires removing `FlipSign` as described below. Both pipelines turn raw columns into the inputs that the pretrained model expects, and evaluation and inference use them too.
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Clarify the pipeline guidance before the KumoTabular regression exception: state
that the feature pipeline remains unchanged, while the target pipeline remains
unchanged except that KumoTabular regression requires removing FlipSign.
Preserve the explanation that both pipelines prepare model inputs and are also
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Minor · Qualify the TALENT epoch default. · finetuning.md:195-231
The table presents 75 × 10 as the harness default, but TALENT uses 50 epochs for binary kumo-tabular-small-ft runs when --finetune-epochs is omitted. The reproduction guidance omits that flag, so readers following it do not use the schedule shown in the table.
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Qualify the harness epoch default in the “Epochs × steps” row: state that binary
`kumo-tabular-small-ft` runs on TALENT use 50 × 10 when `--finetune-epochs` is
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Minor · Qualify the validation-selection guarantee. · finetuning.md:145-193
Each validation call draws a new randomized estimator ensemble. The selected checkpoint can therefore win on a favorable draw while having a lower expected score, or score below the pretrained model on a later validation evaluation.
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-Since the first evaluation scores the pretrained model, selection never returns weights that score below it on the validation rows.+Selection cannot choose a checkpoint with a worse metric than the initial sampled baseline evaluation. Because each evaluation draws a new randomized estimator ensemble, the selected checkpoint may score lower than the pretrained model on a later validation evaluation and may have a lower expected validation score.
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Update the model-selection guarantee after the training example to say selection
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regression exception: state that the feature pipeline remains unchanged, while
the target pipeline remains unchanged except that KumoTabular regression
requires removing FlipSign. Preserve the explanation that both pipelines prepare
model inputs and are also used during evaluation and inference.
- Around line 195-231: Qualify the harness epoch default in the “Epochs × steps”
row: state that binary `kumo-tabular-small-ft` runs on TALENT use 50 × 10 when
`--finetune-epochs` is omitted, while retaining 75 × 10 as the general default.
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example to say selection cannot choose a checkpoint with a worse metric than the
initial sampled baseline evaluation. Clarify that randomized estimator ensembles
make later validation scores vary, so the selected checkpoint may score below
the pretrained model on a later evaluation and may have a lower expected
validation score.
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@wsad1 I chatted with @rusty1s, could we remove the plots from the guide?
Which plots, and why?
I think all plots, and maybe because all other examples don't currently contain any plots. @rusty1s could you chime in on this?
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Summary
Adds a Fine-Tuning guide that explains how full fine-tuning of tabular foundation models works through the ICL interface. It also reports the fine-tuning benchmark results and gives measured guidance on context size, query size, learning rate, and inference context reduction.