# Condensed: AutoGluon Tabular - Essential Functionality

Summary: This tutorial provides implementation guidance for AutoGluon's TabularPredictor, covering essential techniques for automated machine learning on tabular data. It helps with tasks including model training, prediction, evaluation, and optimization through presets. Key features include basic setup and installation, data loading without preprocessing, model training with various quality presets (best_quality to medium_quality), prediction methods (including probability predictions), model evaluation and persistence, and performance optimization techniques. The tutorial demonstrates how to handle both classification and regression tasks, configure evaluation metrics, and implement best practices for model deployment, while highlighting AutoGluon's automatic handling of feature engineering, missing data, and model ensembling.

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# AutoGluon Tabular - Essential Implementation Guide

## Core Setup and Installation

```python
!pip install autogluon.tabular[all]
from autogluon.tabular import TabularDataset, TabularPredictor
```

## Key Implementation Steps

### 1. Data Loading
```python
# Load data from CSV (local or remote)
train_data = TabularDataset('path_to_csv')
```

**Best Practice**: AutoGluon handles raw data directly - avoid preprocessing like imputation or one-hot encoding.

### 2. Basic Training
```python
# Simple training implementation
predictor = TabularPredictor(label='target_column').fit(train_data)
```

### 3. Prediction Methods
```python
# Make predictions
predictions = predictor.predict(test_data)

# Get probability predictions
pred_proba = predictor.predict_proba(test_data)
```

### 4. Model Evaluation
```python
# Evaluate overall performance
performance = predictor.evaluate(test_data)

# Get model leaderboard
leaderboard = predictor.leaderboard(test_data)
```

### 5. Model Persistence
```python
# Save location
model_path = predictor.path

# Load saved model
predictor = TabularPredictor.load(model_path)
```

## Critical Configurations
- `label`: Target variable name
- `train_data`: Input dataset (TabularDataset or pandas DataFrame)

## Important Warnings
1. Security: `TabularPredictor.load()` uses pickle - only load trusted data to avoid security risks
2. The basic `fit()` call is meant for prototyping - use `presets` and `eval_metric` parameters for optimized performance

## Minimal Working Example
```python
from autogluon.tabular import TabularPredictor
predictor = TabularPredictor(label='target_column').fit(train_data='data.csv')
```

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# AutoGluon Tabular Fit() and Presets Guide

## Key Implementation Details

### Fit() Process
- Handles binary classification automatically using accuracy metric
- Automatically infers feature types (continuous vs categorical)
- Manages missing data and feature scaling
- Uses random train/validation split if not specified
- Trains multiple models and creates ensembles
- Parallelizes hyperparameter optimization using Ray

### Code Examples

```python
# Check problem type and feature metadata
print("Problem type:", predictor.problem_type)
print("Feature types:", predictor.feature_metadata)

# Transform features to internal representation
test_data_transform = predictor.transform_features(test_data)

# Get feature importance
predictor.feature_importance(test_data)

# Access specific models for prediction
predictor.predict(test_data, model='LightGBM')

# List available models
predictor.model_names()
```

## Presets Configuration

| Preset | Quality | Use Case | Time | Inference Speed | Storage |
|--------|----------|----------|------|-----------------|----------|
| best_quality | SOTA | Accuracy-critical | 16x+ | 32x+ | 16x+ |
| high_quality | Enhanced | Large-scale batch inference | 16x+ | 4x | 2x |
| good_quality | Strong | Fast inference, edge devices | 16x | 2x | 0.1x |
| medium_quality | Competitive | Prototyping | 1x | 1x | 1x |

### Best Practices
1. Start with `medium_quality` for initial prototyping
2. Use `best_quality` with 16x time_limit for production
3. Consider `high_quality` or `good_quality` for specific performance requirements
4. Hold out test data for validation
5. Specify `eval_metric` when default metrics aren't suitable

### Important Notes
- AutoGluon automatically handles:
  - Feature type inference
  - Missing data
  - Feature scaling
  - Model selection and ensembling
  - Hyperparameter optimization
- Use `time_limit` to control training duration
- Monitor resource usage with different presets
- Consider inference speed requirements when selecting presets

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# Maximizing Predictive Performance

## Key Implementation Pattern
```python
predictor = TabularPredictor(
    label=label_column,
    eval_metric=metric
).fit(
    train_data,
    time_limit=time_limit,
    presets='best_quality'
)
```

## Critical Best Practices

### Model Performance Optimization
1. Use `presets='best_quality'` for:
   - Advanced model ensembles with stacking/bagging
   - Maximum prediction accuracy
   - Trade-off: Longer training time

2. Alternative presets:
   - `presets=['good_quality', 'optimize_for_deployment']` for faster deployment
   - Default: `'medium_quality'` for rapid prototyping

### Important Configuration Parameters
- `eval_metric`: Specify appropriate metric for your task
  - Binary classification: 'f1', 'roc_auc', 'log_loss'
  - Regression: 'mean_absolute_error', 'median_absolute_error'
  - Custom metrics supported

### Data Handling Best Practices
- Provide all data in `train_data`
- Avoid manual `tuning_data` splits
- Skip `hyperparameter_tune_kwargs` unless deploying single models
- Avoid manual `hyperparameters` specification
- Set realistic `time_limit` (longer = better performance)

## Regression Tasks
```python
predictor_age = TabularPredictor(
    label='age',
    path="agModels-predictAge"
).fit(train_data, time_limit=60)
```

### Key Features
- Automatic problem type detection
- Default regression metric: RMSE
- Customizable evaluation metrics
- Negative values during training indicate metrics where lower is better

## Supported Data Formats
- Pandas DataFrames
- CSV files
- Parquet files
- Note: Multiple tables must be joined into single table before processing

## Advanced Features
- Custom metrics
- Model deployment optimization
- Custom model integration
- Detailed performance analysis via leaderboard

For implementation details, refer to TabularPredictor documentation and advanced tutorials.