* Fix pairwise objective with NDCG metric.
- Allow setting `ndcg_exp_gain` for `rank:pairwise`.
This is useful when using pairwise for objective but ndcg for metric.
* Implement multi-target for hist.
- Add new hist tree builder.
- Move data fetchers for tests.
- Dispatch function calls in gbm base on the tree type.
* Initial support for distributed LTR using dask.
* Support `qid` in libxgboost.
* Refactor `predict` and `n_features_in_`, `best_[score/iteration/ntree_limit]`
to avoid duplicated code.
* Define `DaskXGBRanker`.
The dask ranker doesn't support group structure, instead it uses query id and
convert to group ptr internally.
* Do not derive from unittest.TestCase (not needed for pytest)
* assertRaises -> pytest.raises
* Simplify test_empty_dmatrix with test parametrization
* setUpClass -> setup_class, tearDownClass -> teardown_class
* Don't import unittest; import pytest
* Use plain assert
* Use parametrized tests in more places
* Fix test_gpu_with_sklearn.py
* Put back run_empty_dmatrix_reg / run_empty_dmatrix_cls
* Fix test_eta_decay_gpu_hist
* Add parametrized tests for monotone constraints
* Fix test names
* Remove test parametrization
* Revise test_slice to be not flaky
* 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>
* adding support for matrix slicing with query ID for cross-validation
* hail mary test of unrar installation for windows tests
* trying to modify tests to run in Github CI
* Remove dependency on wget and unrar
* Save error log from R test
* Relax assertion in test_training
* Use int instead of bool in C function interface
* Revise R interface
* Add XGDMatrixSliceDMatrixEx and keep old XGDMatrixSliceDMatrix for API compatibility
