5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jiaming Yuan
97abcc7ee2
Extract interaction constraint from split evaluator. (#5034)
*  Extract interaction constraints from split evaluator.

The reason for doing so is mostly for model IO, where num_feature and interaction_constraints are copied in split evaluator. Also interaction constraint by itself is a feature selector, acting like column sampler and it's inefficient to bury it deep in the evaluator chain. Lastly removing one another copied parameter is a win.

*  Enable inc for approx tree method.

As now the implementation is spited up from evaluator class, it's also enabled for approx method.

*  Removing obsoleted code in colmaker.

They are never documented nor actually used in real world. Also there isn't a single test for those code blocks.

*  Unifying the types used for row and column.

As the size of input dataset is marching to billion, incorrect use of int is subject to overflow, also singed integer overflow is undefined behaviour. This PR starts the procedure for unifying used index type to unsigned integers. There's optimization that can utilize this undefined behaviour, but after some testings I don't see the optimization is beneficial to XGBoost.
2019-11-14 20:11:41 +08:00
Jiaming Yuan
f0064c07ab
Refactor configuration [Part II]. (#4577)
* Refactor configuration [Part II].

* General changes:
** Remove `Init` methods to avoid ambiguity.
** Remove `Configure(std::map<>)` to avoid redundant copying and prepare for
   parameter validation. (`std::vector` is returned from `InitAllowUnknown`).
** Add name to tree updaters for easier debugging.

* Learner changes:
** Make `LearnerImpl` the only source of configuration.

    All configurations are stored and carried out by `LearnerImpl::Configure()`.

** Remove booster in C API.

    Originally kept for "compatibility reason", but did not state why.  So here
    we just remove it.

** Add a `metric_names_` field in `LearnerImpl`.
** Remove `LazyInit`.  Configuration will always be lazy.
** Run `Configure` before every iteration.

* Predictor changes:
** Allocate both cpu and gpu predictor.
** Remove cpu_predictor from gpu_predictor.

    `GBTree` is now used to dispatch the predictor.

** Remove some GPU Predictor tests.

* IO

No IO changes.  The binary model format stability is tested by comparing
hashing value of save models between two commits
2019-07-20 08:34:56 -04:00
Jiaming Yuan
da21ac0cc2
Fix tweedie metric string. (#4543) 2019-06-09 09:52:29 +08:00
Jiaming Yuan
c589eff941
De-duplicate GPU parameters. (#4454)
* Only define `gpu_id` and `n_gpus` in `LearnerTrainParam`
* Pass LearnerTrainParam through XGBoost vid factory method.
* Disable all GPU usage when GPU related parameters are not specified (fixes XGBoost choosing GPU over aggressively).
* Test learner train param io.
* Fix gpu pickling.
2019-05-29 11:55:57 +08:00
AbdealiJK
1f2ad36bad Add make commands for tests
This adds the make commands required to build and run tests.
2016-12-04 11:25:57 -08:00