A new parameter `custom_metric` is added to `train` and `cv` to distinguish the behaviour from the old `feval`. And `feval` is deprecated. The new `custom_metric` receives transformed prediction when the built-in objective is used. This enables XGBoost to use cost functions from other libraries like scikit-learn directly without going through the definition of the link function.
`eval_metric` and `early_stopping_rounds` in sklearn interface are moved from `fit` to `__init__` and is now saved as part of the scikit-learn model. The old ones in `fit` function are now deprecated. The new `eval_metric` in `__init__` has the same new behaviour as `custom_metric`.
Added more detailed documents for the behaviour of custom objective and metric.
* Implement early stopping with training continuation.
* Add new C API for obtaining boosted rounds.
* Fix off by 1 in `save_best`.
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Do not derive from unittest.TestCase (not needed for pytest)
* assertRaises -> pytest.raises
* Simplify test_empty_dmatrix with test parametrization
* setUpClass -> setup_class, tearDownClass -> teardown_class
* Don't import unittest; import pytest
* Use plain assert
* Use parametrized tests in more places
* Fix test_gpu_with_sklearn.py
* Put back run_empty_dmatrix_reg / run_empty_dmatrix_cls
* Fix test_eta_decay_gpu_hist
* Add parametrized tests for monotone constraints
* Fix test names
* Remove test parametrization
* Revise test_slice to be not flaky
* Change DefaultEvalMetric of classification from error to logloss
* Change default binary metric in plugin/example/custom_obj.cc
* Set old error metric in python tests
* Set old error metric in R tests
* Fix missed eval metrics and typos in R tests
* Fix setting eval_metric twice in R tests
* Add warning for empty eval_metric for classification
* Fix Dask tests
Co-authored-by: Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* fixed some endian issues
* Use dmlc::ByteSwap() to simplify code
* Fix lint check
* [CI] Add test for s390x
* Download latest CMake on s390x
* Fix a bug in my code
* Save magic number in dmatrix with byteswap on big-endian machine
* Save version in binary with byteswap on big-endian machine
* Load scalar with byteswap in MetaInfo
* Add a debugging message
* Handle arrays correctly when byteswapping
* EOF can also be 255
* Handle magic number in MetaInfo carefully
* Skip Tree.Load test for big-endian, since the test manually builds little-endian binary model
* Handle missing packages in Python tests
* Don't use boto3 in model compatibility tests
* Add s390 Docker file for local testing
* Add model compatibility tests
* Add R compatibility test
* Revert "Add R compatibility test"
This reverts commit c2d2bdcb7dbae133cbb927fcd20f7e83ee2b18a8.
Co-authored-by: Qi Zhang <q.zhang@ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Simplify Scikit-Learn parameter management.
* Copy base class for removing duplicated parameter signatures.
* Set all parameters to None.
* Handle None in set_param.
* Extract the doc.
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
* Fix#4630, #4421: Preserve correct ordering between metrics, and always use last metric for early stopping
* Clarify semantics of early stopping in presence of multiple valid sets and metrics
* Add a test
* Fix lint
* _maybe_pandas_xxx should return their arguments unchanged if no pandas installed
* Tests should not assume pandas is installed
* Mark tests which require pandas as such
