- 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)
* [R] Fix empty empty tests and a test warnings
* [R] Remove stringi dependency (fix#5905)
* Fix R lint check
* [R] Fix automatic conversion to factor in R < 4.0.0 in xgb.model.dt.tree
* Add `R` Makefile variable
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* [R] Add a compatibility layer to load Booster from an old RDS
* Modify QuantileHistMaker::LoadConfig() to be backward compatible with 1.1.x
* Add a big warning about compatibility in QuantileHistMaker::LoadConfig()
* Add testing suite
* Discourage use of saveRDS() in CRAN doc
* Set output margin to True for custom objective in Python and R.
* Add a demo for writing multi-class custom objective function.
* Run tests on selected demos.
* Simplify DropTrees calling logic
* Add `training` parameter for prediction method.
* [Breaking]: Add `training` to C API.
* Change for R and Python custom objective.
* Correct comment.
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
* add interaction constraints
* enable both interaction and monotonic constraints at the same time
* fix lint
* add R test, fix lint, update demo
* Use dmlc::JSONReader to express interaction constraints as nested lists; Use sparse arrays for bookkeeping
* Add Python test for interaction constraints
* make R interaction constraints parameter based on feature index instead of column names, fix R coding style
* Fix lint
* Add BlueTea88 to CONTRIBUTORS.md
* Short circuit when no constraint is specified; address review comments
* Add tutorial for feature interaction constraints
* allow interaction constraints to be passed as string, remove redundant column_names argument
* Fix typo
* Address review comments
* Add comments to Python test
* [R] add native routines registration
* c_api.h needs to include <cstdint> since it uses fixed width integer types
* [R] use registered native routines from R code
* [R] bump version; add info on native routine registration to the contributors guide
* make lint happy
* [R] make sure things work for a single split model; fixes#2191
* [R] add option use_int_id to xgb.model.dt.tree
* [R] add example of exporting tree plot to a file
* [R] set save_period = NULL as default in xgboost() to be the same as in xgb.train; fixes#2182
* [R] it's a good practice after CRAN releases to bump up package version in dev
* [R] allow xgb.DMatrix construction from integer dense matrices
* [R] xgb.DMatrix: silent parameter; improve documentation
* [R] xgb.model.dt.tree code style changes
* [R] update NEWS with parameter changes
* [R] code safety & style; handle non-strict matrix and inherited classes of input and model; fixes#2242
* [R] change to x.y.z.p R-package versioning scheme and set version to 0.6.4.3
* [R] add an R package versioning section to the contributors guide
* [R] R-package/README.md: clean up the redundant old installation instructions, link the contributors guide
* [R] do not remove zero coefficients from gblinear dump
* [R] switch from stringr to stringi
* fix#1399
* [R] separate ggplot backend, add base r graphics, cleanup, more plots, tests
* add missing include in amalgamation - fixes building R package in linux
* add forgotten file
* [R] fix DESCRIPTION
* [R] fix travis check issue and some cleanup
