* Add management functions for global configuration: XGBSetGlobalConfig(), XGBGetGlobalConfig().
* Add Python interface: set_config(), get_config(), and config_context().
* Add unit tests for Python
* Add R interface: xgb.set.config(), xgb.get.config()
* Add unit tests for R
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
This PR is meant the end the confusion around best_ntree_limit and unify model slicing. We have multi-class and random forests, asking users to understand how to set ntree_limit is difficult and error prone.
* Implement the save_best option in early stopping.
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Add checks for group size.
* Simple docs.
* Search group index during hist cut matrix initialization.
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Add XGBRanker to Python API doc
* Show inherited members of XGBRegressor in API doc, since XGBRegressor uses default methods from XGBModel
* Add table of contents to Python API doc
* Skip JVM doc download if not available
* Show inherited members for XGBRegressor and XGBRanker
* Expose XGBRanker to Python XGBoost module directory
* Add docstring to XGBRegressor.predict() and XGBRanker.predict()
* Fix rendering errors in Python docstrings
* Fix lint
* Change doc build to reST exclusively
* Rewrite Intro doc in reST; create toctree
* Update parameter and contribute
* Convert tutorials to reST
* Convert Python tutorials to reST
* Convert CLI and Julia docs to reST
* Enable markdown for R vignettes
* Done migrating to reST
* Add guzzle_sphinx_theme to requirements
* Add breathe to requirements
* Fix search bar
* Add link to user forum
* Support CSV file in DMatrix
We'd just need to expose the CSV parser in dmlc-core to the Python wrapper
* Revert extra code; document existing CSV support
CSV support is already there but undocumented
* Add notice about categorical features
* coding style update
Current coding style varies(for example: the mixed use of single quote and double quote), and it will be confusing, especially for new users.
This PR will try to follow proposal of PEP8, make the documents more readable.
* minor fix
- best_ntree_limit as new booster atrribute added
- usage of bst.best_ntree_limit in python doc added
- fixed wrong 'best_iteration' after training continuation
- allows feval to return a list of tuples (name, error/score value)
- changed behavior for multiple eval_metrics in conjunction with
early_stopping: Instead of raising an error, the last passed evel_metric
(or last entry in return value of feval) is used for early stopping
- allows list of eval_metrics in dict-typed params
- unittest for new features / behavior
documentation updated
- example for assigning a list to 'eval_metric'
- note about early stopping on last passed eval metric
- info msg for used eval metric added
