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This is a clean rewrite of cuml.feature_extraction.text. These are the last non-idiomatic estimators within cuml core (see #7317), the main goal was to bring these in-line with the rest of the library. While doing this, I also fixed a number of bugs, improved the docstrings, and added one new parameter (tokenizer) to better handle disparate document formats.

Performance is marginally better across the board as well, due to making better use of cudf APIs (and reducing copies and some memory usage). Most transforms can be done with a few straightforward cudf method calls.

A quick summary:

  • Rewrite and cleanup of cuml.feature_extraction. All models are moved to a single cuml.feature_extraction.text namespace (mirroring sklearn's implementation). IMO the single file makes it easier to read since these models are all heavily related.
  • All estimators in cuml.feature_extraction now follow cuml's standard type reflection, and make use of the standard input/output and validation machinery.
  • All estimators are now in-line with the upstream sklearn implementation. This fixes a few bugs (especially in HashingVectorizer) that resulted in different output feature matrices. We should now be identical with the CPU implementation (sans small floating point differences).
  • Improved docstrings and comments. Much of the diff here is docs and comments on the implementation and arguments.
  • Added a tokenizer parameter to support custom tokenization. The previous preprocessor + delimiter argument alone were insufficient for all document formats. The docstrings have been updated to clarify the purpose of these arguments and the tests improved to better isolate their expected behaviors.
  • Added all estimators in cuml.feature_extraction to the sklearn compatibility tests. There are no xfails.

Fixes #5904.
Fixes #5606.
Fixes #4721.
Fixes #5104.
Last part of #7317.

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  • New Features

    • GPU-accelerated text feature extraction supports count, hashing, and TF-IDF vectorizers with preprocessing, tokenization, sparse outputs, and sklearn-compatible workflows.
    • Plain Python sequences are supported alongside pandas Series inputs.
    • Distributed TF-IDF processing now uses the GPU-accelerated implementation.
  • Refactor

    • Text feature extraction is consolidated in the public text module.
    • Standalone English stop-word and legacy vectorizer modules were removed.
  • Tests

    • Expanded sklearn compatibility and regression coverage for text estimators.
    • Added validation for hashing vectorizer alternate-sign behavior.

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The PR consolidates GPU text vectorizers and TF-IDF estimators in text.py, removes former private modules, updates distributed TF-IDF execution, and expands compatibility and feature-extraction tests.

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Text feature extraction

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Shared text module foundation
python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/text.py, python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/__init__.py, python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/_stop_words.py
The public text module updates preprocessing and vocabulary handling. Package exports change, and the standalone stop-word module is removed.
Vectorizer implementations
python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/text.py, python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/_vectorizers.py
The public text module implements CountVectorizer and HashingVectorizer. The former vectorizer module is removed.
TF-IDF implementations
python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/text.py, python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/_tfidf.py, python/cuml/cuml/feature_extraction/_tfidf_vectorizer.py
The public text module implements TfidfTransformer and TfidfVectorizer. The former TF-IDF modules are removed.
Distributed TF-IDF execution
python/cuml/cuml/dask/feature_extraction/text/tfidf_transformer.py
Distributed fitting aggregates GPU document-frequency statistics and builds the native cuML TF-IDF model.
Compatibility and validation coverage
python/cuml/tests/test_sklearn_compatibility.py, python/cuml/tests/test_text_feature_extraction.py, python/cuml/tests/test_tfidf.py, python/cuml/pyproject.toml
Tests use Python sequence inputs and sparse-array comparisons. Compatibility coverage includes the text estimators. Pytest ignores SkipTestWarning.

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: csadorf

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8b278

This PR is a large rewrite of the GPU text feature-extraction estimators. One concrete, low-cost fix remains: an incorrect diagnostic is raised when document-frequency pruning removes the entire vocabulary. Two previously flagged concerns also remain open at the current head: the CountVectorizer transform path leans on an unverified cuDF null-encoding contract to filter unseen tokens (a potential silent data-integrity risk if that assumption ever breaks), and a compatibility test could miss a feature-column mapping bug due to a coincidental tie in its test corpus. None of these block basic functionality, but they represent real correctness/coverage gaps worth resolving before merge.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation addresses the linked objectives: improved TextAttack compatibility [#5904], sklearn-compatible CountVectorizer output [#5606], corrected alternate-sign hashing [#4721], and expanded…
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- Around line 766-772: Update the vocabulary filtering logic around
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Annotating a few sections for review.

"ignore:(.*)alias(.*):DeprecationWarning:hdbscan[.*]",
# From sklearn
"ignore:A column-vector y was passed:sklearn.exceptions.DataConversionWarning",
"ignore::sklearn.exceptions.SkipTestWarning",

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This is the only packaging-codeowners change - the sklearn upstream test suite will warn on test generation for some tests with these estimators. This warning doesn't indicate an issue and can be ignored.

def test_tfidf_transformer_copy(norm, use_idf, smooth_idf, sublinear_tf):
if use_idf:
pytest.xfail(
"cupyx.scipy.sparse.csr does not support inplace multiply."

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Not an issue anymore.

"""
Currently if all the sorted values in the row is equal we
assume equality
TODO: Find better way to test ig hash matrices are equal

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We can now just assert the matrices are equal directly.

np.testing.assert_allclose(res.toarray(), ref.toarray())


@pytest.mark.xfail(reason="https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuml/issues/4721")

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The old code implemented alternate_sign incorrectly. We now implement it the same as sklearn.

# since `filter_alphanum` strips `_` but sklearn keeps `_`.
# We can use `X` in the common case of lowercase normalization
# since no uppercase letters will remain. Otherwise pick
# an unlikely key of unicode characters"

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This is hacky, but functionally identical to the old implementation.

We could have used X.str.findall with a regex, but benchmarking that was significantly slower than this implementation. I don't think there's a better option here, I'm fine with this as is.


return X

def _to_tokens(self, X):

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This function (and _preprocess above) are the bulk of the computation here. They make use of several ngram/tokenization methods in cudf (from the old nvtext).

The previous implementation duplicated a lot of work, especially for larger ngram_range ranges. We're now more careful and efficient with our cudf transforms. I'm pretty happy with the code here, most operations are fairly straightforward and efficient cudf method call pipelines.

X.index, fill_value=0
)
indptr = cp.zeros(len(doc_id_counts) + 1, dtype="int32")
cp.cumsum(doc_id_counts.values, out=indptr[1:])

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The old implementation did some cupy munging to handle documents with no terms, which was both complicated and inefficient. The new implementation coercing the values to a cupy sparse matrix is pretty straightforward and efficient.

- Reorganize submodule into a single file
- Update all estimators to properly follow cuml idioms. This includes
  type reflection, input validation, etc...
- Rewrite logic using modern `cudf` features
- Update docstrings.
Also improves docstring to better describe what each does.
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This should be ready for review. The diff # looks a bit alarming, but a huge chunk (>50%) of this PR is docstrings. Hopefully shouldn't be too bad to review.

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Great work! I’m excited to see the estimator modernization effort completed with this PR. I left one concrete fix for custom preprocessors bypassing lowercasing and one optional suggestion to improve sklearn parity for tied terms at the max_features cutoff. Neither changes my overall assessment.

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