Skip to content

TypeError in FactorizedTopK with StringLookup when candidates dataset has dict structure #759

Description

@ArafathJ

When using tfrs.metrics.FactorizedTopK with a candidate dataset, passing a dataset of dictionaries (e.g., {"movie_title": ...}) causes a TypeError.
The error indicates that StringLookup expects a string tensor but receives a dictionary.

Expected behavior

  1. The candidate dataset should be accepted even if it’s in dictionary form (common when using TFDS). The library should either:

  2. Automatically extract the correct feature (e.g., "movie_title"), or

  3. Provide clearer documentation/examples showing how to preprocess the dataset before passing to FactorizedTopK.

Activity

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions