How-to Guides

How-to guides are task-oriented: they answer the question "how do I…?" with focused, practical recipes. They assume you already understand the basics.

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Available Guides

Variable-Size Sets

How to construct masks, pass them to any model, and avoid the max-pooling pitfall when all values are negative.

Pooling Strategies

How to choose between sum, max, and mean pooling for your task, with a practical decision guide and comparison table.

Equivariant Models

How to build set-to-set models using PermutationEquivariantLayer and DeepSetsEquivariant, including stacking layers and combining with a final invariant pool.

Conditional Models

How to use DeepSetsConditional with each fusion strategy (concat, film, add) and when to use context_in_rho.

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Looking for API details?

See the API Reference for complete parameter tables and return-type documentation.