Update census example to use RaggedFeature (and resolve related TODO).

PiperOrigin-RevId: 489961032

examples/census_example_common.py

@@ -53,14 +53,16 @@
 ]
 
 
-RAW_DATA_FEATURE_SPEC = dict([(name, tf.io.FixedLenFeature([], tf.string))
-                              for name in CATEGORICAL_FEATURE_KEYS] +
-                             [(name, tf.io.FixedLenFeature([], tf.float32))
-                              for name in NUMERIC_FEATURE_KEYS] +
-                             [(name, tf.io.VarLenFeature(tf.float32))
-                              for name in OPTIONAL_NUMERIC_FEATURE_KEYS] +
-                             [(LABEL_KEY,
-                               tf.io.FixedLenFeature([], tf.string))])
+RAW_DATA_FEATURE_SPEC = dict(
+    [(name, tf.io.FixedLenFeature([], tf.string))
+     for name in CATEGORICAL_FEATURE_KEYS] +
+    [(name, tf.io.FixedLenFeature([], tf.float32))
+     for name in NUMERIC_FEATURE_KEYS] +
+    [(name,  # pylint: disable=g-complex-comprehension
+      tf.io.RaggedFeature(
+          tf.float32, value_key=name, partitions=[], row_splits_dtype=tf.int64))
+     for name in OPTIONAL_NUMERIC_FEATURE_KEYS] +
+    [(LABEL_KEY, tf.io.FixedLenFeature([], tf.string))])
 
 _SCHEMA = tft.DatasetMetadata.from_feature_spec(RAW_DATA_FEATURE_SPEC).schema
 
@@ -121,14 +123,10 @@ def preprocessing_fn(inputs):
       outputs[key] = tft.scale_to_0_1(inputs[key])
 
     for key in OPTIONAL_NUMERIC_FEATURE_KEYS:
-      # This is a SparseTensor because it is optional. Here we fill in a default
-      # value when it is missing.
-      sparse = tf.sparse.SparseTensor(inputs[key].indices, inputs[key].values,
-                                      [inputs[key].dense_shape[0], 1])
-      dense = tf.sparse.to_dense(sp_input=sparse, default_value=0.)
-      # Reshaping from a batch of vectors of size 1 to a batch to scalars.
-      dense = tf.squeeze(dense, axis=1)
-      outputs[key] = tft.scale_to_0_1(dense)
+      # This is a RaggedTensor because it is optional. Here we fill in a default
+      # value when it is missing, after scaling it.
+      outputs[key] = tft.scale_to_0_1(inputs[key]).to_tensor(
+          default_value=0., shape=[None, 1])
 
     # For all categorical columns except the label column, we generate a
     # vocabulary, and convert the string feature to a one-hot encoding.

examples/census_example_test.py

@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@
 
 import os
 
-import tensorflow as tf
 import census_example
 import census_example_common
+from tensorflow_transform import test_case
 import local_model_server
 
 
-class CensusExampleTest(tf.test.TestCase):
+class CensusExampleTest(test_case.TransformTestCase):
 
   def testCensusExampleAccuracy(self):
     raw_data_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'testdata/census')
@@ -106,13 +106,13 @@ def testCensusExampleAccuracy(self):
 }"""
         results = local_model_server.make_classification_request(
             address, ascii_classification_request)
-        self.assertEqual(len(results), 1)
-        self.assertEqual(len(results[0].classes), 2)
+        self.assertLen(results, 1)
+        self.assertLen(results[0].classes, 2)
         self.assertEqual(results[0].classes[0].label, '0')
         self.assertLess(results[0].classes[0].score, 0.01)
         self.assertEqual(results[0].classes[1].label, '1')
         self.assertGreater(results[0].classes[1].score, 0.99)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-  tf.test.main()
+  test_case.main()

examples/census_example_v2.py

@@ -87,11 +87,10 @@ def transform_dataset(data):
     for key, val in data.items():
       if key not in common.RAW_DATA_FEATURE_SPEC:
         continue
-      if isinstance(common.RAW_DATA_FEATURE_SPEC[key], tf.io.VarLenFeature):
-        # TODO(b/169666856): Remove conversion to sparse once ragged tensors are
-        # natively supported.
+      if isinstance(common.RAW_DATA_FEATURE_SPEC[key], tf.io.RaggedFeature):
+        # make_csv_dataset will set the value to 0 when it's missing.
         raw_features[key] = tf.RaggedTensor.from_tensor(
-            tf.expand_dims(val, -1)).to_sparse()
+            tf.expand_dims(val, axis=-1), padding=0)
         continue
       raw_features[key] = val
     transformed_features = tft_layer(raw_features)
@@ -189,10 +188,7 @@ def train_and_evaluate(raw_train_eval_data_path_pattern,
 
   inputs = {}
   for key, spec in feature_spec.items():
-    if isinstance(spec, tf.io.VarLenFeature):
-      inputs[key] = tf.keras.layers.Input(
-          shape=[None], name=key, dtype=spec.dtype, sparse=True)
-    elif isinstance(spec, tf.io.FixedLenFeature):
+    if isinstance(spec, tf.io.FixedLenFeature):
       # TODO(b/208879020): Move into schema such that spec.shape is [1] and not
       # [] for scalars.
       inputs[key] = tf.keras.layers.Input(