- Remove unused parameters. There are still many warnings that are not yet
addressed. Currently, the warnings in dmlc-core dominate the error log.
- Remove `distributed` parameter from metric.
- Fixes some warnings about signed comparison.
On GPU we use rouding factor to truncate the gradient for deterministic results. This PR changes the gradient representation to fixed point number with exponent aligned with rounding factor.
[breaking] Drop non-deterministic histogram.
Use fixed point for shared memory.
This PR is to improve the performance of GPU Hist.
Co-authored-by: Andy Adinets <aadinets@nvidia.com>
- move segment sorter to common
- this is the first of a handful of pr's that splits the larger pr #5326
- it moves this facility to common (from ranking objective class), so that it can be
used for metric computation
- it also wraps all the bald device pointers into span.
* - implementation of map ranking algorithm
- also effected necessary suggestions mentioned in the earlier ranking pr's
- made some performance improvements to the ndcg algo as well
* - pairwise ranking objective implementation on gpu
- there are couple of more algorithms (ndcg and map) for which support will be added
as follow-up pr's
- with no label groups defined, get gradient is 90x faster on gpu (120m instance
mortgage dataset)
- it can perform by an order of magnitude faster with ~ 10 groups (and adequate cores
for the cpu implementation)
* Add JSON config to rank obj.
