Vertex AI Batch Predictions: Bigquery format must be used as input and output simultaneously

[sanjay_narayana]

I'm encountering an error when I try to create a batch prediction job with a bigquery table as my input, and a JSONL output in a GCS bucket. The documentation for batch predictions seems to indicate that I can do so, but I still see an error.

I'm trying to create a batch prediction job on the Vertex AI console, and I see this error.

[ErnestoC]

The documentation does seem unclear about this error, do you see the same issue if you test selecting a different output format, for instance CSV? This so I can investigate further and contact the appropriate teams with this inquiry.

[sascha_heyer]

If you use BigQuery as your batch prediction input you only can store the batch prediction results in BigQuery (input and output has to be the same)