NVIDIA-Merlin / NVIDIA-Merlin/Merlin
Configure how sequential and non-sequential features are combined
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- Python
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Description
Session-based models are typically fed with sequential features (e.g. sequence of user interactions). But they can also be fed in addition with non-sequential features, that might represent:
- User/context features: e.g. user demographics (e.g. age, gender), user behavioural features (favorite item category, time since last purchase), context features (e.g. device, day of week).
- Target item features: e.g. when being used for ranking, you might want to provide features of the item target together with a label on whether the item is relevant or not the user/session. Those target item features are not sequential.
This task is about allowing users to configure via CLI how to combine sequential and non-sequential features:
Merge before the sequence processing
- Broadcast and concat - So that non-sequential features are replicated for the whole sequence and concatenated for each position
Merge after the sequence processing:
- concat
- element-wise ops: sum, mean, element-wise multiplication)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the CLI configuration and session-model sequence-processing paths, then trace how sequential and non-sequential features are currently passed through. Done means the CLI can select the listed pre-processing broadcast/concat and post-processing combination operations, with coverage for each supported choice.
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Assessment
- Domain
- cli, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100