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 `numBoostedRound` to jvm packages
- Remove rabit checkpoint version.
- Change the starting version of training continuation in JVM [breaking].
- Redefine the checkpoint version policy in jvm package. [breaking]
- Rename the Python check point callback parameter. [breaking]
- Unifies the checkpoint policy between Python and JVM.
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Co-authored-by: Stephan T. Lavavej <stl@nuwen.net>
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Joe <25804777+ByteSizedJoe@users.noreply.github.com>
- 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)
* 1. Add parameters to set feature names and feature types
2. Save feature names and feature types to native json model
* Change serialization and deserialization format to ubj.
* Use array interface for CSC matrix.
Use array interface for CSC matrix and align the interface with CSR and dense.
- Fix nthread issue in the R package DMatrix.
- Unify the behavior of handling `missing` with other inputs.
- Unify the behavior of handling `missing` around R, Python, Java, and Scala DMatrix.
- Expose `num_non_missing` to the JVM interface.
- Deprecate old CSR and CSC constructors.
Following classes are added to support dataframe in java binding:
- `Column` is an abstract type for a single column in tabular data.
- `ColumnBatch` is an abstract type for dataframe.
- `CuDFColumn` is an implementaiton of `Column` that consume cuDF column
- `CudfColumnBatch` is an implementation of `ColumnBatch` that consumes cuDF dataframe.
- `DeviceQuantileDMatrix` is the interface for quantized data.
The Java implementation mimics the Python interface and uses `__cuda_array_interface__` protocol for memory indexing. One difference is on JVM package, the data batch is staged on the host as java iterators cannot be reset.
Co-authored-by: jiamingy <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
* Add getNumFeature to the Java API
* Add getNumFeature to the Scala API
* Add unit tests for getNumFeature
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Add BigDenseMatrix
* ability to create DMatrix with bigger than Integer.MAX_VALUE size arrays
* uses sun.misc.Unsafe
* make DMatrix test work from a jar as well
* [jvm-packages] Scala implementation of the Rabit tracker.
A Scala implementation of RabitTracker that is interface-interchangable with the
Java implementation, ported from `tracker.py` in the
[dmlc-core project](https://github.com/dmlc/dmlc-core).
* [jvm-packages] Updated Akka dependency in pom.xml.
* Refactored the RabitTracker directory structure.
* Fixed premature stopping of connection handler.
Added a new finite state "AwaitingPortNumber" to explicitly wait for the
worker to send the port, and close the connection. Stopping the actor
prematurely sends a TCP RST to the worker, causing the worker to crash
on AssertionError.
* Added interface IRabitTracker so that user can switch implementations.
* Default timeout duration changes.
* Dependency for Akka tests.
* Removed the main function of RabitTracker.
* A skeleton for testing Akka-based Rabit tracker.
* waitFor() in RabitTracker no longer throws exceptions.
* Completed unit test for the 'start' command of Rabit tracker.
* Preliminary support for Rabit Allreduce via JNI (no prepare function support yet.)
* Fixed the default timeout duration.
* Use Java container to avoid serialization issues due to intermediate wrappers.
* Added tests for Allreduce/model training using Scala Rabit tracker.
* Added spill-over unit test for the Scala Rabit tracker.
* Fixed a typo.
* Overhaul of RabitTracker interface per code review.
- Removed methods start() waitFor() (no arguments) from IRabitTracker.
- The timeout in start(timeout) is now worker connection timeout, as tcp
socket binding timeout is less intuitive.
- Dropped time unit from start(...) and waitFor(...) methods; the default
time unit is millisecond.
- Moved random port number generation into the RabitTrackerHandler.
- Moved all Rabit-related classes to package ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.scala.rabit.
* More code refactoring and comments.
* Unified timeout constants. Readable tracker status code.
* Add comments to indicate that allReduce is for tests only. Removed all other variants.
* Removed unused imports.
* Simplified signatures of training methods.
- Moved TrackerConf into parameter map.
- Changed GeneralParams so that TrackerConf becomes a standalone parameter.
- Updated test cases accordingly.
* Changed monitoring strategies.
* Reverted monitoring changes.
* Update test case for Rabit AllReduce.
* Mix in UncaughtExceptionHandler into IRabitTracker to prevent tracker from hanging due to exceptions thrown by workers.
* More comprehensive test cases for exception handling and worker connection timeout.
* Handle executor loss due to unknown cause: the newly spawned executor will attempt to connect to the tracker. Interrupt tracker in such case.
* Per code-review, removed training timeout from TrackerConf. Timeout logic must be implemented explicitly and externally in the driver code.
* Reverted scalastyle-config changes.
* Visibility scope change. Interface tweaks.
* Use match pattern to handle tracker_conf parameter.
* Minor clarification in JNI code.
* Clearer intent in match pattern to suppress warnings.
* Removed Future from constructor. Block in start() and waitFor() instead.
* Revert inadvertent comment changes.
* Removed debugging information.
* Updated test cases that are a bit finicky.
* Added comments on the reasoning behind the unit tests for testing Rabit tracker robustness.
