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The dashed boxes in the figure represent optional, overall components, and the dashed lines/arrows indicate the corresponding connections, depending on whether or not certain components are present. For example, the dashed, blue-lines indicate that the ``deeptabular``, ``deeptext`` and ``deepimage`` components are connected directly to the output neuron or neurons (depending on whether we are performing a binary classification or regression, or a multi-class classification) if the optional ``deephead`` is not present. Finally, the components within the faded-pink rectangle are concatenated. Note that it is not possible to illustrate the number of possible architectures and components available in ``pytorch-widedeep`` in one Figure. Therefore, for more details on possible architectures (and more) please, see the [documentation]((https://pytorch-widedeep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)), or the Examples folders and the notebooks there. In math terms, and following the notation in the [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07792), the expression for the architecture without a ``deephead`` component can be formulated as:

Where σ is the sigmoid function, *'W'* are the weight matrices applied to the wide model and to the final activations of the deep models, *'a'* are these final activations, φ(x) are the cross product transformations of the original features *'x'*, and , and *'b'* is the bias term. In case you are wondering what are *"cross product transformations"*, here is a quote taken directly from the paper: *"For binary features, a cross-product transformation (e.g., “AND(gender=female, language=en)”) is 1 if and only if the constituent features (“gender=female” and “language=en”) are all 1, and 0 otherwise".* While if there is a ``deephead`` component, the previous expression turns into:

It is perfectly possible to use custom models (and not necessarily those in the library) as long as the the custom models have an attribute called ``output_dim`` with the size of the last layer of activations, so that ``WideDeep`` can be constructed. Examples on how to use custom components can be found in the Examples folder. ### The ``deeptabular`` component It is important to emphasize that **each individual component, `wide`, `deeptabular`, `deeptext` and `deepimage`, can be used independently** and in isolation. For example, one could use only `wide`, which is in simply a linear model. In fact, one of the most interesting functionalities in``pytorch-widedeep`` would be the use of the ``deeptabular`` component on its own, i.e. what one might normally refer as Deep Learning for Tabular Data. Currently, ``pytorch-widedeep`` offers the following different models for that component: 0. **Wide**: a simple linear model where the nonlinearities are captured via cross-product transformations, as explained before. 1. **TabMlp**: a simple MLP that receives embeddings representing the categorical features, concatenated with the continuous features, which can also be embedded. 2. **TabResnet**: similar to the previous model but the embeddings are passed through a series of ResNet blocks built with dense layers. 3. **TabNet**: details on TabNet can be found in [TabNet: Attentive Interpretable Tabular Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07442) Two simpler attention based models that we call: 4. **ContextAttentionMLP**: MLP with at attention mechanism "on top" that is based on [Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./hovy/papers/16HLT-hierarchical-attention-networks.pd) 5. **SelfAttentionMLP**: MLP with an attention mechanism that is a simplified version of a transformer block that we refer as "query-key self-attention". The ``Tabformer`` family, i.e. Transformers for Tabular data: 6. **TabTransformer**: details on the TabTransformer can be found in [TabTransformer: Tabular Data Modeling Using Contextual Embeddings](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06678.pdf). 7. **SAINT**: Details on SAINT can be found in [SAINT: Improved Neural Networks for Tabular Data via Row Attention and Contrastive Pre-Training](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01342). 8. **FT-Transformer**: details on the FT-Transformer can be found in [Revisiting Deep Learning Models for Tabular Data](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11959). 9. **TabFastFormer**: adaptation of the FastFormer for tabular data. Details on the Fasformer can be found in [FastFormers: Highly Efficient Transformer Models for Natural Language Understanding](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13382) 10. **TabPerceiver**: adaptation of the Perceiver for tabular data. Details on the Perceiver can be found in [Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03206) And probabilistic DL models for tabular data based on [Weight Uncertainty in Neural Networks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05424): 11. **BayesianWide**: Probabilistic adaptation of the `Wide` model. 12. **BayesianTabMlp**: Probabilistic adaptation of the `TabMlp` model Note that while there are scientific publications for the TabTransformer, SAINT and FT-Transformer, the TabFasfFormer and TabPerceiver are our own adaptation of those algorithms for tabular data. In addition, Self-Supervised pre-training can be used for all `deeptabular` models, with the exception of the `TabPerceiver`. Self-Supervised pre-training can be used via two methods or routines which we refer as: encoder-decoder method and constrastive-denoising method. Please, see the documentation and the examples for details on this functionality, and all other options in the library. ### Installation Install using pip: ```bash pip install pytorch-widedeep ``` Or install directly from github ```bash pip install git+https://github.com/jrzaurin/pytorch-widedeep.git ``` #### Developer Install ```bash # Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/jrzaurin/pytorch-widedeep cd pytorch-widedeep # Install in dev mode pip install -e . ``` ### Quick start Binary classification with the [adult dataset]([adult](https://www.kaggle.com/wenruliu/adult-income-dataset)) using `Wide` and `DeepDense` and defaults settings. Building a wide (linear) and deep model with ``pytorch-widedeep``: ```python import numpy as np import torch from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split from pytorch_widedeep import Trainer from pytorch_widedeep.preprocessing import WidePreprocessor, TabPreprocessor from pytorch_widedeep.models import Wide, TabMlp, WideDeep from pytorch_widedeep.metrics import Accuracy from pytorch_widedeep.datasets import load_adult df = load_adult(as_frame=True) df["income_label"] = (df["income"].apply(lambda x: ">50K" in x)).astype(int) df.drop("income", axis=1, inplace=True) df_train, df_test = train_test_split(df, test_size=0.2, stratify=df.income_label) # Define the 'column set up' wide_cols = [ "education", "relationship", "workclass", "occupation", "native-country", "gender", ] crossed_cols = [("education", "occupation"), ("native-country", "occupation")] cat_embed_cols = [ "workclass", "education", "marital-status", "occupation", "relationship", "race", "gender", "capital-gain", "capital-loss", "native-country", ] continuous_cols = ["age", "hours-per-week"] target = "income_label" target = df_train[target].values # prepare the data wide_preprocessor = WidePreprocessor(wide_cols=wide_cols, crossed_cols=crossed_cols) X_wide = wide_preprocessor.fit_transform(df_train) tab_preprocessor = TabPreprocessor( cat_embed_cols=cat_embed_cols, continuous_cols=continuous_cols # type: ignore[arg-type] ) X_tab = tab_preprocessor.fit_transform(df_train) # build the model wide = Wide(input_dim=np.unique(X_wide).shape[0], pred_dim=1) tab_mlp = TabMlp( column_idx=tab_preprocessor.column_idx, cat_embed_input=tab_preprocessor.cat_embed_input, continuous_cols=continuous_cols, ) model = WideDeep(wide=wide, deeptabular=tab_mlp) # train and validate trainer = Trainer(model, objective="binary", metrics=[Accuracy]) trainer.fit( X_wide=X_wide, X_tab=X_tab, target=target, n_epochs=5, batch_size=256, ) # predict on test X_wide_te = wide_preprocessor.transform(df_test) X_tab_te = tab_preprocessor.transform(df_test) preds = trainer.predict(X_wide=X_wide_te, X_tab=X_tab_te) # Save and load # Option 1: this will also save training history and lr history if the # LRHistory callback is used trainer.save(path="model_weights", save_state_dict=True) # Option 2: save as any other torch model torch.save(model.state_dict(), "model_weights/wd_model.pt") # From here in advance, Option 1 or 2 are the same. I assume the user has # prepared the data and defined the new model components: # 1. Build the model model_new = WideDeep(wide=wide, deeptabular=tab_mlp) model_new.load_state_dict(torch.load("model_weights/wd_model.pt")) # 2. Instantiate the trainer trainer_new = Trainer(model_new, objective="binary") # 3. Either start the fit or directly predict preds = trainer_new.predict(X_wide=X_wide, X_tab=X_tab) ``` Of course, one can do **much more**. See the Examples folder, the documentation or the companion posts for a better understanding of the content of the package and its functionalities. ### Testing ``` pytest tests ``` ### How to Contribute Check [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/jrzaurin/pytorch-widedeep/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.MD) page. ### Acknowledgments This library takes from a series of other libraries, so I think it is just fair to mention them here in the README (specific mentions are also included in the code). The `Callbacks` and `Initializers` structure and code is inspired by the [`torchsample`](https://github.com/ncullen93/torchsample) library, which in itself partially inspired by [`Keras`](https://keras.io/). The `TextProcessor` class in this library uses the [`fastai`](https://docs.fast.ai/text.transform.html#BaseTokenizer.tokenizer)'s `Tokenizer` and `Vocab`. The code at `utils.fastai_transforms` is a minor adaptation of their code so it functions within this library. To my experience their `Tokenizer` is the best in class. The `ImageProcessor` class in this library uses code from the fantastic [Deep Learning for Computer Vision](https://www.pyimagesearch.com/deep-learning-computer-vision-python-book/) (DL4CV) book by Adrian Rosebrock. ### License This work is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT (or any later version). You can choose between one of them if you use this work. `SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 AND MIT` ### Cite #### BibTex ``` @article{Zaurin_pytorch-widedeep_A_flexible_2023, author = {Zaurin, Javier Rodriguez and Mulinka, Pavol}, doi = {10.21105/joss.05027}, journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}, month = jun, number = {86}, pages = {5027}, title = {{pytorch-widedeep: A flexible package for multimodal deep learning}}, url = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05027}, volume = {8}, year = {2023} } ``` #### APA ``` Zaurin, J. R., & Mulinka, P. (2023). pytorch-widedeep: A flexible package for multimodal deep learning. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(86), 5027. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05027 ```