perf: Optimize PredictionsModelWrapper lookup from O(n*m) to O(1)

[imatiach-msft]

Problem

The PredictionsModelWrapper.predict() and predict_proba() methods use row-by-row DataFrame filtering with O(n×m) complexity per row, where n is the dataset size and m is the number of features.

This causes severe performance issues when used with RAI insights on large datasets:

• With 93K training rows and 34 features, predict() processes only ~35-40 rows/sec
• RAI dashboard generation times out after 2+ hours when MimicExplainer calls predict() on all training data for surrogate model training

Root Cause Analysis

The bottleneck occurs in _get_filtered_data() which iterates through all features and filters the dataset for each feature value. For each query row, this performs roughly n × m comparisons.

When MimicExplainer._model_distill() (in interpret-community) trains its surrogate model, it calls model.predict() on the entire training dataset (93K rows). With 93K rows × 34 features × 98K dataset size = ~300 billion comparisons.

Solution

This PR introduces hash-based O(1) lookups:

1. Build hash index at initialization - O(N) one-time cost when wrapper is created
2. Hash-based lookup for each query row - O(1) average case instead of O(n×m)
3. Handle hash collisions - Compare actual values when multiple rows have same hash
4. Graceful fallback - Use original filtering method for edge cases where hash lookup fails

Key Changes

• Added _compute_row_hash() - Computes consistent hash for row values, handling NaN and various dtypes
• Added _build_row_hash_index() - Builds hash→index mapping at initialization
• Added _lookup_by_hash() - O(1) lookup with collision handling
• Added _rows_equal() - Value comparison handling NaN equality
• Updated predict() in base class to use hash lookup with fallback
• Updated predict_proba() in classification wrapper to use hash lookup with fallback
• Updated __getstate__/__setstate__ to rebuild hash index after pickle deserialization

Expected Performance

Metric	Before	After
Lookup speed	~35-40 rows/sec	~400,000+ rows/sec
93K row prediction	~40 minutes	<1 second
RAI dashboard (93K rows)	TIMEOUT (2+ hrs)	~10-15 minutes

Testing

• ✅ All 46 existing tests pass
• ✅ Added 14 new performance and edge case tests:
  • test_large_dataset_performance - Verifies speedup with 10K rows
  • test_hash_collision_handling - Tests duplicate value scenarios
  • test_nan_values_with_hash_lookup - NaN handling
  • test_mixed_dtypes_with_hash_lookup - Mixed int/float/str/bool columns
  • test_reset_index_query_with_hash_lookup - Index mismatch scenarios
  • test_duplicate_rows_with_hash_lookup - Duplicate row handling
  • test_consistency_with_original_behavior - Verifies identical output

Backwards Compatibility

• Behavior unchanged - Same results for all inputs
• API unchanged - No changes to public interface
• Pickle compatible - Hash index is rebuilt on deserialization (not stored in pickle)

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