5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew V. Adinetz
d5992dd881 Replaced std::vector-based interfaces with HostDeviceVector-based interfaces. (#3116)
* Replaced std::vector-based interfaces with HostDeviceVector-based interfaces.

- replacement was performed in the learner, boosters, predictors,
  updaters, and objective functions
- only interfaces used in training were replaced;
  interfaces like PredictInstance() still use std::vector
- refactoring necessary for replacement of interfaces was also performed,
  such as using HostDeviceVector in prediction cache

* HostDeviceVector-based interfaces for custom objective function example plugin.
2018-02-28 13:00:04 +13:00
Thejaswi
84ab74f3a5 Objective function evaluation on GPU with minimal PCIe transfers (#2935)
* Added GPU objective function and no-copy interface.

- xgboost::HostDeviceVector<T> syncs automatically between host and device
- no-copy interfaces have been added
- default implementations just sync the data to host
  and call the implementations with std::vector
- GPU objective function, predictor, histogram updater process data
  directly on GPU
2018-01-12 21:33:39 +13:00
AbdealiJK
6f16f0ef58 Use bst_float consistently throughout (#1824)
* Fix various typos

* Add override to functions that are overridden

gcc gives warnings about functions that are being overridden by not
being marked as oveirridden. This fixes it.

* Use bst_float consistently

Use bst_float for all the variables that involve weight,
leaf value, gradient, hessian, gain, loss_chg, predictions,
base_margin, feature values.

In some cases, when due to additions and so on the value can
take a larger value, double is used.

This ensures that type conversions are minimal and reduces loss of
precision.
2016-11-30 10:02:10 -08:00
Tianqi Chen
ecec5f7959 [CORE] Refactor cache mechanism (#1540) 2016-09-02 20:39:07 -07:00
tqchen
d75e3ed05d [LIBXGBOOST] pass demo running. 2016-01-16 10:24:01 -08:00