PyTorch Tabular aims to make Deep Learning with Tabular data easy and accessible to real-world cases and research alike. The core principles behind the design of the library are:

• Low Resistance Useability
• Easy Customization
• Scalable and Easier to Deploy

It has been built on the shoulders of giants like PyTorch(obviously), and PyTorch Lightning.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Documentation
• Available Models
• Usage
• Blogs
• Citation

Installation

Although the installation includes PyTorch, the best and recommended way is to first install PyTorch from here, picking up the right CUDA version for your machine.

Once, you have got Pytorch installed, just use:

pip install -U pytorch_tabular[extra]

to install the complete library with extra dependencies (Weights&Biases & Plotly).

And :

pip install -U pytorch_tabular

for the bare essentials.

The sources for pytorch_tabular can be downloaded from the Github repo_.

You can either clone the public repository:

git clone git://github.com/manujosephv/pytorch_tabular

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

cd pytorch_tabular && pip install .[extra]

Documentation

For complete Documentation with tutorials visit ReadTheDocs

Available Models

• FeedForward Network with Category Embedding is a simple FF network, but with an Embedding layers for the categorical columns.
• Neural Oblivious Decision Ensembles for Deep Learning on Tabular Data is a model presented in ICLR 2020 and according to the authors have beaten well-tuned Gradient Boosting models on many datasets.
• TabNet: Attentive Interpretable Tabular Learning is another model coming out of Google Research which uses Sparse Attention in multiple steps of decision making to model the output.
• Mixture Density Networks is a regression model which uses gaussian components to approximate the target function and provide a probabilistic prediction out of the box.
• AutoInt: Automatic Feature Interaction Learning via Self-Attentive Neural Networks is a model which tries to learn interactions between the features in an automated way and create a better representation and then use this representation in downstream task
• TabTransformer is an adaptation of the Transformer model for Tabular Data which creates contextual representations for categorical features.
• FT Transformer from Revisiting Deep Learning Models for Tabular Data
• Gated Additive Tree Ensemble is a novel high-performance, parameter and computationally efficient deep learning architecture for tabular data. GATE uses a gating mechanism, inspired from GRU, as a feature representation learning unit with an in-built feature selection mechanism. We combine it with an ensemble of differentiable, non-linear decision trees, re-weighted with simple self-attention to predict our desired output.

Semi-Supervised Learning

• Denoising AutoEncoder is an autoencoder which learns robust feature representation, to compensate any noise in the dataset.

To implement new models, see the How to implement new models tutorial. It covers basic as well as advanced architectures.

Usage

from pytorch_tabular import TabularModel
from pytorch_tabular.models import CategoryEmbeddingModelConfig
from pytorch_tabular.config import (
    DataConfig,
    OptimizerConfig,
    TrainerConfig,
    ExperimentConfig,
)

data_config = DataConfig(
    target=[
        "target"
    ],  # target should always be a list. Multi-targets are only supported for regression. Multi-Task Classification is not implemented
    continuous_cols=num_col_names,
    categorical_cols=cat_col_names,
)
trainer_config = TrainerConfig(
    auto_lr_find=True,  # Runs the LRFinder to automatically derive a learning rate
    batch_size=1024,
    max_epochs=100,
)
optimizer_config = OptimizerConfig()

model_config = CategoryEmbeddingModelConfig(
    task="classification",
    layers="1024-512-512",  # Number of nodes in each layer
    activation="LeakyReLU",  # Activation between each layers
    learning_rate=1e-3,
)

tabular_model = TabularModel(
    data_config=data_config,
    model_config=model_config,
    optimizer_config=optimizer_config,
    trainer_config=trainer_config,
)
tabular_model.fit(train=train, validation=val)
result = tabular_model.evaluate(test)
pred_df = tabular_model.predict(test)
tabular_model.save_model("examples/basic")
loaded_model = TabularModel.load_from_checkpoint("examples/basic")

Blogs

• PyTorch Tabular – A Framework for Deep Learning for Tabular Data
• Neural Oblivious Decision Ensembles(NODE) – A State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Algorithm for Tabular Data
• Mixture Density Networks: Probabilistic Regression for Uncertainty Estimation

Future Roadmap(Contributions are Welcome)

1. Integrate Optuna Hyperparameter Tuning
2. Integrate Captum for interpretability
3. Have a scikit-learn compatible API
4. Add GaussRank as Feature Transformation
5. Enable support for multi-label classification
6. Migrate Datamodule to Polars or Vaex for faster data loading and to handle larger than RAM datasets.
7. Keep adding more architectures

Contributors

Manu Joseph	Jirka Borovec	Jinu Sunil	Chris Fonnesbeck	Null	Andreas
Earlee	Null	Kushashwa Ravi Shrimali	Luca Actis Grosso	Sterling G. Baird	Yinyu Nie

Citation

If you use PyTorch Tabular for a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the published software and the following paper:

• arxiv Paper

@misc{joseph2021pytorch,
      title={PyTorch Tabular: A Framework for Deep Learning with Tabular Data},
      author={Manu Joseph},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2104.13638},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG}
}

• Zenodo Software Citation

@software{manu_joseph_2023_7554473,
  author       = {Manu Joseph and
                  Jinu Sunil and
                  Jiri Borovec and
                  Chris Fonnesbeck and
                  jxtrbtk and
                  Andreas and
                  JulianRein and
                  Kushashwa Ravi Shrimali and
                  Luca Actis Grosso and
                  Sterling G. Baird and
                  Yinyu Nie},
  title        = {manujosephv/pytorch\_tabular: v1.0.1},
  month        = jan,
  year         = 2023,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.0.1},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.7554473},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7554473}
}