- 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.
* 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.
* [jvm-packages] Bump rapids version to 22.12.0
This PR bumps spark version to 3.1.1 and the rapids version
to 22.12.0, which results in the latest xgboost can't run
with the old rapids packages.
* [jvm-packages] fix spark-rapids compatibility issue
spark-rapids (from 22.10) has shimmed GpuColumnVector, which means
we can't call it directly. So this PR call the UnshimmedGpuColumnVector
* [jvm-packages] fix executor crashing issue when transforming on xgboost4j-spark-gpu
the API XGBoosterSetParam is not thread-safe. Dring the phase of transforming,
XGBoost runs several transforming tasks at a time, and each of them will set
the "gpu_id" and "predictor" parameters, so if several tasks (multi-threads)
all XGBoosterSetParam simultaneously, it may cause the memory to be corrupted
and cause SIGSEGV.
This PR first get the booster from broadcast and set to the correct gpu_id
and predictor, and then all transforming taskes will use the same booster to
do the transforming.
With the introduction of the barrier execution mode. we don't need to kill SparkContext when some xgboost tasks failed. Instead, Spark will handle the errors for us. So in this PR, `killSparkContextOnWorkerFailure` parameter is deleted.
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.
This PR rewrites the approx tree method to use codebase from hist for better performance and code sharing.
The rewrite has many benefits:
- Support for both `max_leaves` and `max_depth`.
- Support for `grow_policy`.
- Support for mono constraint.
- Support for feature weights.
- Support for easier bin configuration (`max_bin`).
- Support for categorical data.
- Faster performance for most of the datasets. (many times faster)
- Support for prediction cache.
- Significantly better performance for external memory.
- Unites the code base between approx and hist.
