* Define `best_iteration` only if early stopping is used.
This is the behavior specified by the document but not honored in the actual code.
- Don't set the attributes if there's no early stopping.
- Clean up the code for callbacks, and replace assertions with proper exceptions.
- Assign the attributes when early stopping `save_best` is used.
- Turn the attributes into Python properties.
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Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
- Rewrite GPU demos. notebook is converted to script to avoid committing additional png plots.
- Add GPU demos into the sphinx gallery.
- Add RMM demos into the sphinx gallery.
- Test for firing threads with different device ordinals.
* Handle the new `device` parameter in dask and demos.
- Check no ordinal is specified in the dask interface.
- Update demos.
- Update dask doc.
- Update the condition for QDM.
* Add management functions for global configuration: XGBSetGlobalConfig(), XGBGetGlobalConfig().
* Add Python interface: set_config(), get_config(), and config_context().
* Add unit tests for Python
* Add R interface: xgb.set.config(), xgb.get.config()
* Add unit tests for R
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
This PR is meant the end the confusion around best_ntree_limit and unify model slicing. We have multi-class and random forests, asking users to understand how to set ntree_limit is difficult and error prone.
* Implement the save_best option in early stopping.
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Add checks for group size.
* Simple docs.
* Search group index during hist cut matrix initialization.
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Add XGBRanker to Python API doc
* Show inherited members of XGBRegressor in API doc, since XGBRegressor uses default methods from XGBModel
* Add table of contents to Python API doc
* Skip JVM doc download if not available
* Show inherited members for XGBRegressor and XGBRanker
* Expose XGBRanker to Python XGBoost module directory
* Add docstring to XGBRegressor.predict() and XGBRanker.predict()
* Fix rendering errors in Python docstrings
* Fix lint
* Change doc build to reST exclusively
* Rewrite Intro doc in reST; create toctree
* Update parameter and contribute
* Convert tutorials to reST
* Convert Python tutorials to reST
* Convert CLI and Julia docs to reST
* Enable markdown for R vignettes
* Done migrating to reST
* Add guzzle_sphinx_theme to requirements
* Add breathe to requirements
* Fix search bar
* Add link to user forum
* Support CSV file in DMatrix
We'd just need to expose the CSV parser in dmlc-core to the Python wrapper
* Revert extra code; document existing CSV support
CSV support is already there but undocumented
* Add notice about categorical features
