* Use the name `Context`.
* Pass a context object into `SetInfo`.
* Add context to proxy matrix.
* Add context to iterative DMatrix.
This is to remove the use of the default number of threads during `SetInfo` as a follow-up on
removing the global omp variable while preparing for CUDA stream semantic. Currently, XGBoost
uses the legacy CUDA stream, we will gradually remove them in the future in favor of non-blocking streams.
* Generate column matrix from gHistIndex.
* Avoid synchronization with the sparse page once the cache is written.
* Cleanups: Remove member variables/functions, change the update routine to look like approx and gpu_hist.
* Remove pruner.
Fix some tests to run in a temporary directory in case the root
directory is not writable. Note that most of tests are already
running in the temporary directory, so this PR just make them
consistent.
* Extract partitioner from hist.
* Implement categorical data support by passing the gradient index directly into the partitioner.
* Organize/update document.
* Remove code for negative hessian.
xgboost4j-spark provides 2 sets of API for setting features, one for CPU, another for GPU, which may cause confusion.
This PR removes the GPU API and adds an override CPU function setFeaturesCol to accept Array[String] parameters.
* Fix copy for cv. This prevents inserting default callbacks into the input list.
* Clarify the behavior of callbacks in training/cv.
* Fix typos in doc.
* Cleanup some pylint errors.
* Cleanup pylint errors in rabit modules.
* Make data iter an abstract class and cleanup private access.
* Cleanup no-self-use for booster.
- Mention standard install command for R package.
- Remove repeated "get source" step.
- Remove troubleshooting on Windows. It's outdated considering VS 2022 is already out.
* Implement `MaxCategory` in quantile.
* Implement partition-based split for GPU evaluation. Currently, it's based on the existing evaluation function.
* Extract an evaluator from GPU Hist to store the needed states.
* Added some CUDA stream/event utilities.
* Update document with references.
* Fixed a bug in approx evaluator where the number of data points is less than the number of categories.
