Tabular Forecasting Model in Vertex AI - Cannot deploy model to endpoint

[riaan]

I'm getting started with Vertex AI, and the model I'd like to use is a Tabular Forecasting Model. After spending hours tweaking the model that I wanted to deploy, I came across this error message. "The default version cannot be deployed". I can deploy a normal Tabular model to an endpoint, but not the Tabular Forecasting model.

Does anyone know if there is a way to deploy a Tabular Forecasting Model? If not, is Google planning on adding this functionality anytime soon?

Thanks in advance.

[Eduardo_Ortiz]

You are able to use Tabular Forecasting on Vertex AI the issue you are facing might be occurring since it was omitted one step from the guide that google offers. I recommend you to check the hyperlink I attached since it outlines how to properly achieve this.

Also a couple of points that you might want to be aware of are the next ones:

• You can export AutoML tabular classification and regression models only. Exporting AutoML tabular forecasting models is not supported.
• Vertex Explainable AI is not available using exported tabular models. If you need to use Vertex Explainable AI, you must serve predictions from a model hosted by Vertex AI.
• The exported tabular model can run only on x86 architecture CPUs that support Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) instruction sets.