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Jiaming Yuan
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Document GPU objectives in NEWS. (#3866) 2018-11-05 16:26:28 +13:00
Philip Hyunsu Cho
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Add another contributor for rabit update 2018-11-04 10:28:09 -08:00

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* Mitigate tracker "thundering herd" issue on large cluster. Add exponential backoff retry when workers connect to tracker.
* With this change, we were able to scale to 1.5k executors on a 12 billion row dataset after some tweaks here and there.
### New feature: Additional objective functions for GPUs
* New objective functions ported to GPU: `hinge`, `multi:softmax`, `multi:softprob`, `count:poisson`, `reg:gamma`, `"reg:tweedie`.
* With supported objectives, XGBoost will select the correct devices based on your system and `n_gpus` parameter.
### Major bug fix: learning to rank with XGBoost4J-Spark
* Previously, `repartitionForData` would shuffle data and lose ordering necessary for ranking task.
* To fix this issue, data points within each RDD partition is explicitly group by their group (query session) IDs (#3654). Also handle empty RDD partition carefully (#3750).
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### API changes
* Column sampling by level (`colsample_bylevel`) is now functional for `hist` algorithm (#3635, #3862)
* GPU tag `gpu:` for regression objectives are now deprecated. XGBoost will select the correct devices automatically (#3643)
* Add `disable_default_eval_metric` parameter to disable default metric (#3606)
* Experimental AVX support for gradient computation is removed (#3752)
* XGBoost4J-Spark
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### Acknowledgement
**Contributors** (in no particular order): Hyunsu Cho (@hcho3), Jiaming Yuan (@trivialfis), Nan Zhu (@CodingCat), Rory Mitchell (@RAMitchell), Andy Adinets (@canonizer), Vadim Khotilovich (@khotilov), Sergei Lebedev (@superbobry)
**First-time Contributors** (in no particular order): Matthew Tovbin (@tovbinm), Jakob Richter (@jakob-r), Grace Lam (@grace-lam), Grant W Schneider (@grantschneider), Andrew Thia (@BlueTea88), Sergei Chipiga (@schipiga), Joseph Bradley (@jkbradley), Chen Qin (@chenqin), Jerry Lin (@linjer), Dmitriy Rybalko (@rdtft), Michael Mui (@mmui), Takahiro Kojima (@515hikaru), Bruce Zhao (@BruceZhaoR), Wei Tian (@weitian), Saumya Bhatnagar (@Sam1301), Juzer Shakir (@JuzerShakir), Zhao Hang (@cleghom), Jonathan Friedman (@jontonsoup), Bruno Tremblay (@meztez), @Shiki-H, @mrgutkun, @gorogm, @htgeis, @jakehoare, @zengxy, @KOLANICH
**First-time Contributors** (in no particular order): Matthew Tovbin (@tovbinm), Jakob Richter (@jakob-r), Grace Lam (@grace-lam), Grant W Schneider (@grantschneider), Andrew Thia (@BlueTea88), Sergei Chipiga (@schipiga), Joseph Bradley (@jkbradley), Chen Qin (@chenqin), Jerry Lin (@linjer), Dmitriy Rybalko (@rdtft), Michael Mui (@mmui), Takahiro Kojima (@515hikaru), Bruce Zhao (@BruceZhaoR), Wei Tian (@weitian), Saumya Bhatnagar (@Sam1301), Juzer Shakir (@JuzerShakir), Zhao Hang (@cleghom), Jonathan Friedman (@jontonsoup), Bruno Tremblay (@meztez), Boris Filippov (@frenzykryger), @Shiki-H, @mrgutkun, @gorogm, @htgeis, @jakehoare, @zengxy, @KOLANICH
**First-time Reviewers** (in no particular order): Nikita Titov (@StrikerRUS), Xiangrui Meng (@mengxr), Nirmal Borah (@Nirmal-Neel)