feat: improve Permutation pytorch integration (#3016)

This changes around the output format of `Permutation` in some breaking
ways but I think the API is still new enough to be considered
experimental.

1. In order to align with both huggingface's dataset and torch's
expectations the default output format is now a list of dicts
(row-major) instead of a dict of lists (column-major). I've added a
python_col option which will return the dict of lists.
2. In order to align with pytorch's expectation the `torch` format is
now a list of tensors (row-major) instead of a 2D tensor (column-major).
I've added a torch_col option which will return the 2D tensor instead.

Added tests for torch integration with Permutation

~~Leaving draft until https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/3013
merges as this is built on top of that~~
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Weston Pace
2026-02-12 13:41:14 -08:00
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parent 02783bf440
commit 70cbee6293
4 changed files with 123 additions and 63 deletions

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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
import pyarrow as pa
import pytest
from lancedb.util import tbl_to_tensor
from lancedb.permutation import Permutation
torch = pytest.importorskip("torch")
@@ -16,3 +17,26 @@ def test_table_dataloader(mem_db):
for batch in dataloader:
assert batch.size(0) == 1
assert batch.size(1) == 10
def test_permutation_dataloader(mem_db):
table = mem_db.create_table("test_table", pa.table({"a": range(1000)}))
permutation = Permutation.identity(table)
dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(permutation, batch_size=10, shuffle=True)
for batch in dataloader:
assert batch["a"].size(0) == 10
permutation = permutation.with_format("torch")
dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(permutation, batch_size=10, shuffle=True)
for batch in dataloader:
assert batch.size(0) == 10
assert batch.size(1) == 1
permutation = permutation.with_format("torch_col")
dataloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
permutation, collate_fn=lambda x: x, batch_size=10, shuffle=True
)
for batch in dataloader:
assert batch.size(0) == 1
assert batch.size(1) == 10