* Split building histogram into separated class.
* Extract `InitCompressedRow` definition.
* Basic tests for gpu-hist.
* Document the code more verbosely.
* Removed `HistCutUnit`.
* Removed some duplicated copies in `GPUHistMaker`.
* Implement LCG and use it in tests.
* DMatrix refactor 2
* Remove buffered rowset usage where possible
* Transition to c++11 style iterators for row access
* Transition column iterators to C++ 11
* Add multi-GPU unit test environment
* Better assertion message
* Temporarily disable failing test
* Distinguish between multi-GPU and single-GPU CPP tests
* Consolidate Python tests. Use attributes to distinguish multi-GPU Python tests from single-CPU counterparts
* Added finding quantiles on GPU.
- this includes datasets where weights are assigned to data rows
- as the quantiles found by the new algorithm are not the same
as those found by the old one, test thresholds in
tests/python-gpu/test_gpu_updaters.py have been adjusted.
* Adjustments and improved testing for finding quantiles on the GPU.
- added C++ tests for the DeviceSketch() function
- reduced one of the thresholds in test_gpu_updaters.py
- adjusted the cuts found by the find_cuts_k kernel
* Use sparse page as singular CSR matrix representation
* Simplify dmatrix methods
* Reduce statefullness of batch iterators
* BREAKING CHANGE: Remove prob_buffer_row parameter. Users are instead recommended to sample their dataset as a preprocessing step before using XGBoost.
* GPU binning and compression.
- binning and index compression are done inside the DeviceShard constructor
- in case of a DMatrix with multiple row batches, it is first converted into a single row batch
