* 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.
* Re-implement ROC-AUC.
* Binary
* MultiClass
* LTR
* Add documents.
This PR resolves a few issues:
- Define a value when the dataset is invalid, which can happen if there's an
empty dataset, or when the dataset contains only positive or negative values.
- Define ROC-AUC for multi-class classification.
- Define weighted average value for distributed setting.
- A correct implementation for learning to rank task. Previous
implementation is just binary classification with averaging across groups,
which doesn't measure ordered learning to rank.
* Extract interaction constraints from split evaluator.
The reason for doing so is mostly for model IO, where num_feature and interaction_constraints are copied in split evaluator. Also interaction constraint by itself is a feature selector, acting like column sampler and it's inefficient to bury it deep in the evaluator chain. Lastly removing one another copied parameter is a win.
* Enable inc for approx tree method.
As now the implementation is spited up from evaluator class, it's also enabled for approx method.
* Removing obsoleted code in colmaker.
They are never documented nor actually used in real world. Also there isn't a single test for those code blocks.
* Unifying the types used for row and column.
As the size of input dataset is marching to billion, incorrect use of int is subject to overflow, also singed integer overflow is undefined behaviour. This PR starts the procedure for unifying used index type to unsigned integers. There's optimization that can utilize this undefined behaviour, but after some testings I don't see the optimization is beneficial to XGBoost.
* Refactor configuration [Part II].
* General changes:
** Remove `Init` methods to avoid ambiguity.
** Remove `Configure(std::map<>)` to avoid redundant copying and prepare for
parameter validation. (`std::vector` is returned from `InitAllowUnknown`).
** Add name to tree updaters for easier debugging.
* Learner changes:
** Make `LearnerImpl` the only source of configuration.
All configurations are stored and carried out by `LearnerImpl::Configure()`.
** Remove booster in C API.
Originally kept for "compatibility reason", but did not state why. So here
we just remove it.
** Add a `metric_names_` field in `LearnerImpl`.
** Remove `LazyInit`. Configuration will always be lazy.
** Run `Configure` before every iteration.
* Predictor changes:
** Allocate both cpu and gpu predictor.
** Remove cpu_predictor from gpu_predictor.
`GBTree` is now used to dispatch the predictor.
** Remove some GPU Predictor tests.
* IO
No IO changes. The binary model format stability is tested by comparing
hashing value of save models between two commits
* Use feature interaction constraints to narrow search space for split candidates.
* fix clang-tidy broken at updater_quantile_hist.cc:535:3
* make const
* fix
* try to fix exception thrown in java_test
* fix suspected mistake which cause EvaluateSplit error
* try fix
* Fix bug: feature ID and node ID swapped in argument
* Rename CheckValidation() to CheckFeatureConstraint() for clarity
* Do not create temporary vector validFeatures, to enable parallelism
* Refactor to allow for custom regularisation methods
* Implement compositional SplitEvaluator framework
* Fixed segfault when no monotone_constraints are supplied.
* Change pid to parentID
* test_monotone_constraints.py now passes
* Refactor ColMaker and DistColMaker to use SplitEvaluator
* Performance optimisation when no monotone_constraints specified
* Fix linter messages
* Fix a few more linter errors
* Update the amalgamation
* Add bounds check
* Add check for leaf node
* Fix linter error in param.h
* Fix clang-tidy errors on CI
* Fix incorrect function name
* Fix clang-tidy error in updater_fast_hist.cc
* Enable SSE2 for Win32 R MinGW
Addresses https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/3335#issuecomment-400535752
* Add contributor
