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Without the KV cache, KumoTabular embeds all context and query rows in one forward and post-processes all estimator outputs at once. On BeyondArena, Kumo-Tabular-L (16 estimators, contexts capped at 200k rows and 500 columns) runs out of memory on an 80 GB H100 for the largest tables, e.g. delivery_eta_1m in the forward and maps_router_eta_1m in the recipe fit. This PR runs the query side of the no-KV path in passes sized from the chunk memory limit that TransformerBlock already uses for batch_size_limit="auto", and cuts full-size temporaries in the recipe fit. All 142 BeyondArena core datasets now run without the KV cache, at unchanged speed, with predictions equal to #994 up to rare floating-point rounding.

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  • One chunk memory limit (sdm/_memory.py): chunk_memory_limit(device) is the budget that attention "auto" batching already used (device memory × per-process fraction × SDM_CHUNK_MEMORY_FRACTION); attention and the TabFM cell embedding now call it, and split_size sizes balanced chunks within it. All new chunk and pass sizes derive from this limit or from the context size; none is hard-coded.
  • Row embedding in passes (row_embedding.py): without gradients on CUDA, when the query rows' cell buffer exceeds the limit, RowEmbedding embeds the context rows once and the query rows in balanced passes that replay the recorded context through sdm.cache.Cache, the same record and replay as fit/predict. Passes align with the row-attention chunks, so every row runs in a chunk of the same size as in a single pass; otherwise FlashAttention would round long rows differently in small chunks. The ICL block still runs once and now frees the label embedding and each layer's key/value early.
  • Recipe transforms and post-processing in passes (execution.py, base.py): RecipeExecution.transform and transform_output(outputs, dtype) process rows in passes. transform_output now also casts member outputs to dtype and inverts numerical targets pass by pass, so outputs stay in the model dtype until then; ICLModel passes the dtype of the first transformed query, before callbacks. Recipe documents the row independence this relies on.
  • Recipe fit memory (ensemble.py, choice.py, numerical/): evenly spaced ensemble members, such as Choice's round-robin options, are selected as views instead of copies; nanmean, isfinite and bool counts no longer make full-size copies; PowerTransform finds its bounds before allocating workspaces; RobustScale quantiles and ClipSigma transforms run in chunks within the limit. Processor outputs are bitwise unchanged.

Results

  • All processors and the default recipes are bitwise unchanged against Make estimator batching exact, robust and automatic #994.
  • BeyondArena (L, 16 estimators, H100 80 GB): all 507 tasks run without the KV cache, where earlier runs needed it on 8 datasets. The peak is 74.8 GiB on maps_router_eta_1m, and Elo is unchanged (1409 vs 1410 in one pool).
  • Speed: unchanged within noise (TabArena total −0.4% for L, −0.9% for S). A no-KV forward with a 200k-row context and 100k queries peaks at 12.9 GiB instead of 17.8 GiB.

Known limitation

The recipe fit is not chunked. On maps_router_eta_1m it still sets the 74.8 GiB peak, because Choice re-stacks its members while its input and option outputs are alive. This fits on an H100 80 GB and an RTX Pro 6000 96 GB.

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  • New Features

    • Added a rank-based Gaussian transformation for numerical features, including support for ties and missing values.
    • Added balanced category shuffling to distribute shifts more evenly across ensemble members.
  • Performance

    • Large query sets and numerical processing now run in memory-sized passes on supported devices, helping reduce peak memory use.
    • Automatic attention batching now applies across device types.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of non-finite values in numerical transformations, including scaling and clipping.
    • Regression outputs now apply target inverse transforms during output processing and retain the requested dtype.

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The pull request adds memory-aware row chunking for model and recipe execution, updates numerical processors to use finite-value statistics and chunked operations, and adds RankGaussian and balanced categorical shifts. Tests cover chunked execution, non-finite values, and the new processor methods.

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Memory-aware execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared memory sizing and model batching
sdm/_memory.py, sdm/models/kumo/tabular/..., sdm/models/tabfm/..., sdm/nn/attention.py, sdm/models/base.py, benchmark/tabular/model.py, sdm/ensemble.py, test/models/kumo/tabular/..., test/models/test_base.py
Shared memory limits size CUDA batches. RowEmbedding can process query rows in chunks using recorded context state. Attention and cell embedding use shared memory sizing. Model output transforms receive the query dtype. Member selection uses slices for evenly spaced positions.
Row-wise recipe transforms
sdm/processing/execution.py, sdm/processing/common/choice.py, sdm/processing/recipe.py, test/processing/test_execution.py
RecipeExecution transforms query and output rows in passes. It casts outputs to the requested dtype and applies inverse target transforms only for numerical targets. Choice tables are yielded lazily.

Numerical processor updates

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Finite-value statistics and transforms
sdm/processing/numerical/..., test/processing/numerical/...
Numerical processors use shared finite-value statistics. RobustScale and ClipSigma process data in chunks. Tests cover non-finite values and constrained-memory execution.

Additional processor options

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RankGaussian processor
sdm/processing/numerical/rank_gaussian.py, sdm/processing/numerical/__init__.py, sdm/processing/__init__.py, sdm/models/kumo/tabular/recipe.py, test/processing/numerical/test_rank_gaussian.py
Adds RankGaussian, which fits empirical rank knots and maps query values to normal quantiles. The Kumo numerical processor choices include RankGaussian. Tests cover ties, non-finite values, knot limits, dtype, and chunking.
Balanced categorical shifts
sdm/processing/categorical/shuffle.py, sdm/models/kumo/tabular/recipe.py, test/processing/categorical/test_shuffle.py, test/processing/test_contract.py
Adds the balanced_shift method and selects it for categorical Kumo targets. Tests check shift balance, reproducibility, and processor contract coverage.

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RankGaussian may still use memory in proportion to the full table size, both in its stored state and during transformation. That can cause the out-of-memory failures this PR is meant to prevent. Row-pass execution may also fail for ensembles whose groups have different row counts. Resolve these issues before merging.

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@JingangQu JingangQu changed the title Run no-KV KumoTabular queries in passes and reduce recipe memory Run no-KV KumoTabular queries in passes, reduce recipe memory, and add a memory-efficient RankGaussian Sep 27, 2026
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456-463: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test row-pass behavior instead of the split_size call.

record_size returns num_items, so _transform_rows receives one full-size pass and never exercises row splitting. The assertion only checks the helper input. It can pass even if the row-pass loop stops splitting rows or assigns the wrong member rows.

Force multiple passes with the existing chunk-memory control, then assert the transformed member rows and pass sizes for both table orderings. This tests the observable behavior required by the changed _transform_rows path.

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Update the test around record_size to use the existing chunk-memory control to
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- Line 326: Update RecipeExecution.transform and _transform_rows to determine
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# Member cells are transformed in double precision at most.
# Groups have shape [stored members, ..., rows, columns].
num_rows = table._groups[0].size(-2)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Process each ensemble group with its own row count.

EnsembleTable.from_tables creates separate groups for referenced tables, so RecipeExecution.transform can receive groups with different row counts. _transform_rows uses the first group’s row count and one split size for every group. On CUDA, different group sizes can produce different numbers of chunks, causing the strict zip to raise ValueError. If the first group fits in one pass, a larger group can remain unsplit.

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64-64: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle zero-row tables in RankGaussian.

TableTensor accepts numerical blocks with zero rows. _fit then gathers index 0 from an empty row dimension, and _transform uses ambiguous reshape(-1, 0). Add explicit empty-row handling in both methods. Define the fitted state for an empty fit and return an empty transformed numerical block.

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Add explicit zero-row handling to RankGaussian._fit and RankGaussian._transform:
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Use keyword arguments in multi-line calls.

The multi-line _batched_interp call uses positional arguments. The multi-line torch.where call at Lines 52-54 does the same. Name the arguments at both sites.

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Seed both random tensors in the batched test.

The context and query use unseeded torch.randn calls at Lines 108 and 113. Pass one fixed torch.Generator to both calls so failures can be reproduced.

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Comment on lines +51 to +54
self._values = torch.where(finite, values, values.gather(-1, last))
self._probabilities = torch.where(
finite, probabilities, probabilities.gather(-1, last)
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Bound the fitted knot state.

For a column with more than 8192 fitted rows, _values and _probabilities still retain every row. The sort and two searchsorted calls also create full-size fitting intermediates; searchsorted returns int64 indices by default. This defeats the stated memory limit on large tables. Select at most 8192 representative knots per column, preserve their mid-rank probabilities, and bound fitting intermediates. (docs.pytorch.org)

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probabilities = _batched_interp(
columns.reshape(-1, n_rows).to(self._values.dtype).contiguous(),
self._values.reshape(-1, n_fitted),
self._probabilities.reshape(-1, n_fitted),
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Process query rows in bounded passes.

When a query contains many rows and columns, _batched_interp materializes search indices, gathered values, and interpolation results for the entire query. The resulting peak memory can still exhaust the device even if fitted knots are capped. Split query rows into memory-bounded passes and assemble the outputs. (docs.pytorch.org)

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- Move the `SDM_CHUNK_MEMORY_FRACTION` budget of attention and TabFM cell
  embedding chunks into one helper, `sdm._memory.chunk_memory_limit`.
- Expose the automatic attention batch size limit as
  `TransformerBlock.auto_batch_size_limit`, so callers can plan passes
  that align with its chunks.

Signed-off-by: Jingang Qu <jqu@nvidia.com>
- Find finite values without an `abs()` copy and count them without an
  int64 copy of the mask, and compute Standardize, ClipSigma and
  PowerTransform statistics with fewer full-size temporaries.
- Find the Yeo-Johnson bounds before allocating the PowerTransform
  workspaces.
- Compute RobustScale quantiles over column chunks and ClipSigma
  transforms over row chunks within the chunk memory limit.
- Transform in Standardize, ClipSoft and RobustScale with fewer
  temporaries.
- Select evenly spaced ensemble members as views, select shared
  DropConstantColumns groups before re-stacking members, and select Choice
  members one option at a time.

Signed-off-by: Jingang Qu <jqu@nvidia.com>
- Without gradients on CUDA, embed the context rows once and the query
  rows in balanced passes that replay the recorded context state, when
  the query cells would exceed the chunk memory limit.
- Align passes with the chunks of the row attention, so every row runs in
  a chunk of the same size as in a single pass. Passes then match a
  single pass up to rare rounding differences in small passes.
- Free the label embedding and each layer's full key/value early in the
  ICL block.

Signed-off-by: Jingang Qu <jqu@nvidia.com>
- Transform queries and post-process member outputs in passes over rows
  within the chunk memory limit in `RecipeExecution`.
- Keep member outputs in the model output dtype until post-processing,
  which casts them to the query dtype and inverts numerical targets pass
  by pass.
- Post-process the benchmark adapter's outputs through `transform_output`
  after freeing the transformed queries.

Signed-off-by: Jingang Qu <jqu@nvidia.com>
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