* Fix various typos
* Add override to functions that are overridden
gcc gives warnings about functions that are being overridden by not
being marked as oveirridden. This fixes it.
* Use bst_float consistently
Use bst_float for all the variables that involve weight,
leaf value, gradient, hessian, gain, loss_chg, predictions,
base_margin, feature values.
In some cases, when due to additions and so on the value can
take a larger value, double is used.
This ensures that type conversions are minimal and reduces loss of
precision.
* Add format to the params accepted by DumpModel
Currently, only the test format is supported when trying to dump
a model. The plan is to add more such formats like JSON which are
easy to read and/or parse by machines. And to make the interface
for this even more generic to allow other formats to be added.
Hence, we make some modifications to make these function generic
and accept a new parameter "format" which signifies the format of
the dump to be created.
* Fix typos and errors in docs
* plugin: Mention all the register macros available
Document the register macros currently available to the plugin
writers so they know what exactly can be extended using hooks.
* sparce_page_source: Use same arg name in .h and .cc
* gbm: Add JSON dump
The dump_format argument can be used to specify what type
of dump file should be created. Add functionality to dump
gblinear and gbtree into a JSON file.
The JSON file has an array, each item is a JSON object for the tree.
For gblinear:
- The item is the bias and weights vectors
For gbtree:
- The item is the root node. The root node has a attribute "children"
which holds the children nodes. This happens recursively.
* core.py: Add arg dump_format for get_dump()
* Changes for Mingw64 compilation to ensure long is a consistent size.
Mainly impacts the Java API which would not compile, but there may be
silent errors on Windows with large datasets before this patch (as long
is 32-bits when compiled with mingw64 even in 64-bit mode).
* Adding ifdefs to ensure it still compiles on MacOS
* Makefile and create_jni.bat changes for Windows.
* Switching XGDMatrixCreateFromCSREx JNI call to use size_t cast
* Fixing lint error, adding profile switching to jvm-packages build to make create-jni.bat get called, adding myself to Contributors.Md
