* Initial support for cudf integration.
* Add two C APIs for consuming data and metainfo.
* Add CopyFrom for SimpleCSRSource as a generic function to consume the data.
* Add FromDeviceColumnar for consuming device data.
* Add new MetaInfo::SetInfo for consuming label, weight etc.
* DMatrix refactor 2
* Remove buffered rowset usage where possible
* Transition to c++11 style iterators for row access
* Transition column iterators to C++ 11
* Replaced std::vector with HostDeviceVector in MetaInfo and SparsePage.
- added distributions to HostDeviceVector
- using HostDeviceVector for labels, weights and base margings in MetaInfo
- using HostDeviceVector for offset and data in SparsePage
- other necessary refactoring
* Added const version of HostDeviceVector API calls.
- const versions added to calls that can trigger data transfers, e.g. DevicePointer()
- updated the code that uses HostDeviceVector
- objective functions now accept const HostDeviceVector<bst_float>& for predictions
* Updated src/linear/updater_gpu_coordinate.cu.
* Added read-only state for HostDeviceVector sync.
- this means no copies are performed if both host and devices access
the HostDeviceVector read-only
* Fixed linter and test errors.
- updated the lz4 plugin
- added ConstDeviceSpan to HostDeviceVector
- using device % dh::NVisibleDevices() for the physical device number,
e.g. in calls to cudaSetDevice()
* Fixed explicit template instantiation errors for HostDeviceVector.
- replaced HostDeviceVector<unsigned int> with HostDeviceVector<int>
* Fixed HostDeviceVector tests that require multiple GPUs.
- added a mock set device handler; when set, it is called instead of cudaSetDevice()
* add qid for https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/2748
* change names
* change spaces
* change qid to bst_uint type
* change qid type to size_t
* change qid first to SIZE_MAX
* change qid type from size_t to uint64_t
* update dmlc-core
* fix qids name error
* fix group_ptr_ error
* Style fix
* Add qid handling logic to SparsePage
* New MetaInfo format + backward compatibility fix
Old MetaInfo format (1.0) doesn't contain qid field. We still want to be able
to read from MetaInfo files saved in old format. Also, define a new format
(2.0) that contains the qid field. This way, we can distinguish files that
contain qid and those that do not.
* Update MetaInfo test
* Simply group assignment logic
* Explicitly set qid=nullptr in NativeDataIter
NativeDataIter's callback does not support qid field. Users of NativeDataIter
will need to call setGroup() function separately to set group information.
* Save qids_ in SaveBinary()
* Upgrade dmlc-core submodule
* Add a test for reading qid
* Add contributor
* Check the size of qids_
* Document qid format
* 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.
