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Support to incremental training

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Incremental training
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Description

Extending the embedding tables of categorical features for new values seen on incremental training.
P.s. requires incremental preprocessing ( https://github.com/NVIDIA/NVTabular/issues/798 )

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked NVTabular issue #798 about incremental preprocessing, then trace how categorical embedding tables are created and used during training. No source files or tests are named in this issue. Done means new categorical values can be handled during incremental training without breaking existing embeddings.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, pytorch
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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