- A new DMatrix type.
- Extract common code into a new QDM base class.
Not yet working:
- Not exposed to the interface yet, will wait for the GPU implementation.
- ~No meta info yet, still working on the source.~
- Exporting data to CSR is not supported yet.
- Support resource view in ellpack.
- Define the CUDA version of MMAP resource.
- Define the CUDA version of malloc resource.
- Refactor cuda runtime API wrappers, and add memory access related wrappers.
- gather windows macros into a single header.
This PR replaces the original RABIT implementation with a new one, which has already been partially merged into XGBoost. The new one features:
- Federated learning for both CPU and GPU.
- NCCL.
- More data types.
- A unified interface for all the underlying implementations.
- Improved timeout handling for both tracker and workers.
- Exhausted tests with metrics (fixed a couple of bugs along the way).
- A reusable tracker for Python and JVM packages.
- Add a test for blocking calls.
- Do not require the queue to be empty after waking up; this frees up the thread to answer blocking calls.
- Handle EOF in read.
- Improve the error message in the result. Allow concatenation of multiple results.
- Implement a columnar adapter.
- Refactor Python pandas handling code to avoid converting into a single numpy array.
- Add support in R for transforming columns.
- Support R data.frame and factor type.
* [coll] Implement a new tracker and a communicator.
The new tracker and communicators communicate through the use of JSON documents. Along
with which, communicators are aware of each other.
- Use the `linalg::Matrix` for storing gradients.
- New API for the custom objective.
- Custom objective for multi-class/multi-target is now required to return the correct shape.
- Custom objective for Python can accept arrays with any strides. (row-major, column-major)
- Define a new tree struct embedded in the `RegTree`.
- Provide dispatching functions in `RegTree`.
- Fix some c++-17 warnings about the use of nodiscard (currently we disable the warning on
the CI).
- Use uint32_t instead of size_t for `bst_target_t` as it has a defined size and can be used
as part of dmlc parameter.
- Hide the `Segment` struct inside the categorical split matrix.
