- static function in header. (which is marked as unused due to translation unit
visibility).
- Implicit copy operator is deprecated.
- Unused lambda capture.
- Moving a temporary variable prevents copy elision.
* Fix round-trip serialization with UTF-8 paths
* Add compiler version check
* Add comment to C API functions
* Add Python tests
* [CI] Updatre MacOS deployment target
* Use std::filesystem instead of dmlc::TemporaryDirectory
* 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.
* 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.
- Save the updater sequence as an array instead of object.
- Warn only once.
The compatibility is kept, but we should be able to break it as the config is not loaded
in pickle model and it's declared to be not stable.
- A `DeviceOrd` struct is implemented to indicate the device. It will eventually replace the `gpu_id` parameter.
- The `predictor` parameter is removed.
- Fallback to `DMatrix` when `inplace_predict` is not available.
- The heuristic for choosing a predictor is only used during training.
* Use ptr from mmap for `GHistIndexMatrix` and `ColumnMatrix`.
- Define a resource for holding various types of memory pointers.
- Define ref vector for holding resources.
- Swap the underlying resources for GHist and ColumnM.
- Add documentation for current status.
- s390x support is removed. It should work if you can compile XGBoost, all the old workaround code does is to get GCC to compile.
- Update SparseDMatrix comment.
- Use a pointer in the bitfield. We will replace the `std::vector<bool>` in `ColumnMatrix` with bitfield.
- Clean up the page source. The timer is removed as it's inaccurate once we swap the mmap pointer into the page.
- Rework the precision metric for both CPU and GPU.
- Mention it in the document.
- Cleanup old support code for GPU ranking metric.
- Deterministic GPU implementation.
* Drop support for classification.
* type.
* use batch shape.
* lint.
* cpu build.
* cpu build.
* lint.
* Tests.
* Fix.
* Cleanup error message.
- Implement a simple `IterSpan` for passing iterators with size.
- Use shared memory for column size counts.
- Use one thread for each sample in row count to reduce atomic operations.
* [CI] Update images that are not related to the binary release.
- Update clang-tidy, prefer tools from the Ubuntu repository.
- Update GPU image to 22.04.
- Small cleanup to the tidy script.
- Remove gpu_jvm, which seems to be unused.
Thrust implementation of `thrust::all_of/any_of/none_of` adopts an early stopping strategy
to bailout early by dividing the input into small batches. This is not ideal for data
validation as we expect all data to be valid. The strategy leads to excessive kernel
launches and stream synchronization.
* Use reduce from dh instead.
- Pass context from booster to DMatrix.
- Use context instead of integer for `n_threads`.
- Check the consistency configuration for `max_bin`.
- Test for all combinations of initialization options.
Previously, we use `libsvm` as default when format is not specified. However, the dmlc
data parser is not particularly robust against errors, and the most common type of error
is undefined format.
Along with which, we will recommend users to use other data loader instead. We will
continue the maintenance of the parsers as it's currently used for many internal tests
including federated learning.
* Create pyproject.toml
* Implement a custom build backend (see below) in packager directory. Build logic from setup.py has been refactored and migrated into the new backend.
* Tested: pip wheel . (build wheel), python -m build --sdist . (source distribution)
* Fix tests with pandas 2.0.
- `is_categorical` is replaced by `is_categorical_dtype`.
- one hot encoding returns boolean type instead of integer type.
* [dask] Return the first valid booster instead of all valid ones.
- Reduce memory footprint of the returned model.
* mypy error.
* lint.
* duplicated.
Added some more tests for the learner and fit_stump, for both column-wise distributed learning and vertical federated learning.
Also moved the `IsRowSplit` and `IsColumnSplit` methods from the `DMatrix` to the `MetaInfo` since in some places we only have access to the `MetaInfo`. Added a new convenience method `IsVerticalFederatedLearning`.
Some refactoring of the testing fixtures.
- Fix prediction range.
- Support prediction cache in mt-hist.
- Support model slicing.
- Make the booster a Python iterable by defining `__iter__`.
- Cleanup removed/deprecated parameters.
- A new field in the output model `iteration_indptr` for pointing to the ranges of trees for each iteration.
- Remove parameter serialization in the scikit-learn interface.
The scikit-lear interface `save_model` will save only the model and discard all
hyper-parameters. This is to align with the native XGBoost interface, which distinguishes
the hyper-parameter and model parameters.
With the scikit-learn interface, model parameters are attributes of the estimator. For
instance, `n_features_in_`, `n_classes_` are always accessible with
`estimator.n_features_in_` and `estimator.n_classes_`, but not with the
`estimator.get_params`.
- Define a `load_model` method for classifier to load its own attributes.
- Set n_estimators to None by default.
* 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.
- The new implementation is more strict as only binary labels are accepted. The previous implementation converts values greater than 1 to 1.
- Deterministic GPU. (no atomic add).
- Fix top-k handling.
- Precise definition of MAP. (There are other variants on how to handle top-k).
- Refactor GPU ranking tests.
- Extract the builder from the updater class. We need a new builder for multi-target.
- Extract `UpdateTree`, it can be reused for different builders. Eventually, other tree
updaters can use it as well.
* Make tree model param a private member.
* Number of features and targets are immutable after construction.
This is to reduce the number of places where we can run configuration.
- Pass obj info into tree updater as const pointer.
This way we don't have to initialize the learner model param before configuring gbm, hence
breaking up the dependency of configurations.
- Define a new tree struct embedded in the `RegTree`.
- Provide dispatching functions in `RegTree`.
- Fix some c++-17 warnings about the use of nodiscard (currently we disable the warning on
the CI).
- Use uint32_t instead of size_t for `bst_target_t` as it has a defined size and can be used
as part of dmlc parameter.
- Hide the `Segment` struct inside the categorical split matrix.
* Support sklearn cross validation for ranker.
- Add a convention for X to include a special `qid` column.
sklearn utilities consider only `X`, `y` and `sample_weight` for supervised learning
algorithms, but we need an additional qid array for ranking.
It's important to be able to support the cross validation function in sklearn since all
other tuning functions like grid search are based on cross validation.
* Update to C++17
* Turn off unity build
* Update CMake to 3.18
* Use MSVC 2022 + CUDA 11.8
* Re-create stack for worker images
* Allocate more disk space for Windows
* Tempiorarily disable clang-tidy
* RAPIDS now requires Python 3.10+
* Unpin cuda-python
* Use latest NCCL
* Use Ubuntu 20.04 in RMM image
* Mark failing mgpu test as xfail
* Fix CPU bin compression with categorical data.
* The bug causes the maximum category to be lesser than 256 or the maximum number of bins when
the input data is dense.
* Extract most of the functionality into `DMatrixCache`.
* Move API entry to independent file to reduce dependency on `predictor.h` file.
* Add test.
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Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Fix quantile tests running on multi-gpus
* Run some gtests with multiple GPUs
* fix mgpu test naming
* Instruct NCCL to print extra logs
* Allocate extra space in /dev/shm to enable NCCL
* use gtest_skip to skip mgpu tests
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Co-authored-by: Hyunsu Philip Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Use array interface for CSC matrix.
Use array interface for CSC matrix and align the interface with CSR and dense.
- Fix nthread issue in the R package DMatrix.
- Unify the behavior of handling `missing` with other inputs.
- Unify the behavior of handling `missing` around R, Python, Java, and Scala DMatrix.
- Expose `num_non_missing` to the JVM interface.
- Deprecate old CSR and CSC constructors.
* Define default ctors for gpair.
Fix clang warning:
Definition of implicit copy assignment operator for 'GradientPairInternal<float>' is
deprecated because it has a user-declared copy constructor
* [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.
We can handle loading the pickle on a CPU-only machine if the XGBoost is built with CUDA
enabled (Linux and Windows PyPI package), but not if the distribution is CPU-only (macOS
PyPI package).
* [CI] Fix CI with updated dependencies.
- Fix jvm package get iris.
* Skip SHAP test for now.
* Revert "Skip SHAP test for now."
This reverts commit 9aa28b4d8aee53fa95d92d2a879c6783ff4b2faa.
* Catch all exceptions.
* Support null value in CUDA array interface.
- Fix for potential null value in array interface.
- Fix incorrect check on mask stride.
* Simple tests.
* Extract mask.
- Replace jvm regex replacement script with mvn command.
- Replace cmake script for python version with python script.
- Automate rest of the manual steps.
The script can handle dev branch, rc release, and formal release version.
* [R] Use new interface for creating DMatrix from CSR.
- CSC is still using the old API.
The old API is not aware of `nthread` parameter, which makes DMatrix to use all available
thread during construction and during transformation lie `SparsePage` -> `CSCPage`.
* Thrust 1.17 removes the experimental/pinned_allocator.
When xgboost is brought into a large project it can
be compiled against Thrust 1.17+ which don't offer
this experimental allocator.
To ensure that going forward xgboost works in all environments we provide a xgboost namespaced version of
the pinned_allocator that previously was in Thrust.
- Use the standard package check (check on the tarball instead of the source tree).
- Run commands in parallel.
- Cleanup dependencies installation.
- Replace makefile.
- Documentation.
- Test using the image from rhub.
- Use rst references instead of doxygen links.
- Replace deprecated functions.
- Add SaveModel; put free step last [skip ci]
Co-authored-by: Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Add back xgboost.rabit for backwards compatibility
* fix my errors
* Fix lint
* Use FutureWarning
Co-authored-by: Hyunsu Philip Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
- Bump configure.ac version.
- Remove amalgamation to reduce the build time for a single object with the added benefit that we can use parallel build during development.
- Fix c function prototype warning.
- Remove Windows automake file generation step to make the build script easier to understand.
* Configuration for init estimation.
* Check whether the model needs configuration based on const attribute `ModelFitted`
instead of a mutable state.
* Add parameter `boost_from_average` to tell whether the user has specified base score.
* Add tests.
* Reduce clutter in log of Python test
* Set up BuildKite test analytics
* Add separate step for building containers
* Enable incremental update of CI stack; custom agent IAM policy
* Intoducing Column Wise Hist Building
* linting
* more linting
* bug fixing
* Removing column samping optimization for a while to simplify the review process.
* linting
* Removing unnecessary changes
* Use DispatchBinType in hist_util.cc
* Adding force_read_by column flag to buildhist. Adding tests for column wise buiilhist.
* Introducing new dispatcher for compile time flags in hist building
* fixing bug with using of DispatchBinType
* Fixing building
* Merging with master branch
Co-authored-by: dmitry.razdoburdin <drazdobu@jfldaal005.jf.intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
- Group C API.
- Add C API sphinx doc.
- Consistent use of `OptionalArg` and the parameter name `config`.
- Remove call to deprecated functions in demo.
- Fix some formatting errors.
- Add links to c examples in the document (only visible with doxygen pages)
- Fix arrow.
* [CI] Use RAPIDS 22.10
* Store CUDA and RAPIDS versions in one place
* Fix
* Add missing #include
* Update gputreeshap submodule
* Fix
* Remove outdated distributed tests
* [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
* Prepare for improving Windows networking compatibility.
* Include dmlc filesystem indirectly as dmlc/filesystem.h includes windows.h, which
conflicts with winsock2.h
* Define `NOMINMAX` conditionally.
* Link the winsock library when mysys32 is used.
* Add config file for read the doc.
- Use numpy stack for handling list of arrays.
- Reuse concat function from dask.
- Prepare for `QuantileDMatrix`.
- Remove unused code.
- Use iterator for prediction to avoid initializing xgboost model
There is a small typo in src/common/partition_builder.h.
Should read `canonical` rather than `cannonical`.
Signed-off-by: Tim Gates <tim.gates@iress.com>
* [Python] Require black and isort for new Python files.
- Require black and isort for spark and dask module.
These files are relatively new and are more conform to the black formatter. We will
convert the rest of the library as we move forward.
Other libraries including dask/distributed and optuna use the same formatting style and
have a more strict standard. The black formatter is indeed quite nice, automating it can
help us unify the code style.
- Gather Python checks into a single script.
* [PySpark] change the returning model type to string from binary
XGBoost pyspark can be can be accelerated by RAPIDS Accelerator seamlessly by
changing the returning model type from binary to string.
- Use `bst_bin_t` in batch param constructor.
- Use `StringView` to avoid `std::string` when appropriate.
- Avoid using `MetaInfo` in quantile constructor to limit the scope of parameter.
* Split up column matrix initialization.
This PR splits the column matrix initialization into 2 steps, the first one initializes
the storage while the second one does the transpose. By doing so, we can reuse the code
for Quantile DMatrix.
* Fix mypy error with latest dask.
Dask is adding type hints to its codebase and as the result, checks in XGBoost can be
performed more rigorously.
- Remove compatibility with old dask version where multi lock was missing.
- Restrict input of `X` to be non-series.
- Adopt latest definition of `Delayed`.
- Avoid passing optional `host_ip`.
- Avoid deprecated `worker.nthreads`.
* [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.
- Remove unused parameters. There are still many warnings that are not yet
addressed. Currently, the warnings in dmlc-core dominate the error log.
- Remove `distributed` parameter from metric.
- Fixes some warnings about signed comparison.
- Optionally switch to c++17
- Use rmm CMake target.
- Workaround compiler errors.
- Fix GPUMetric inheritance.
- Run death tests even if it's built with RMM support.
Co-authored-by: jakirkham <jakirkham@gmail.com>
This PR removes auto-detection of MUSL-based Linux systems in favor of system properties the user can set to configure a specific path for a native library.
* Pass sparse page as adapter, which prepares for quantile dmatrix.
* Remove old external memory code like `rbegin` and extra `Init` function.
* Simplify type dispatch.
Federated learning plugin for xgboost:
* A gRPC server to aggregate MPI-style requests (allgather, allreduce, broadcast) from federated workers.
* A Rabit engine for the federated environment.
* Integration test to simulate federated learning.
Additional followups are needed to address GPU support, better security, and privacy, etc.
Support adaptive tree, a feature supported by both sklearn and lightgbm. The tree leaf is recomputed based on residue of labels and predictions after construction.
For l1 error, the optimal value is the median (50 percentile).
This is marked as experimental support for the following reasons:
- The value is not well defined for distributed training, where we might have empty leaves for local workers. Right now I just use the original leaf value for computing the average with other workers, which might cause significant errors.
- Some follow-ups are required, for exact, pruner, and optimization for quantile function. Also, we need to calculate the initial estimation.
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.
* Make sure the task is initialized before construction of tree updater.
This is a quick fix meant to be backported to 1.6, for a full fix we should pass the model
param into tree updater by reference instead.
* Skip non-increasing test with external memory when subsample is used.
* Increase bin numbers for boost from prediction test. This mitigates the effect of
non-deterministic partitioning.
* Use the name `Context`.
* Pass a context object into `SetInfo`.
* Add context to proxy matrix.
* Add context to iterative DMatrix.
This is to remove the use of the default number of threads during `SetInfo` as a follow-up on
removing the global omp variable while preparing for CUDA stream semantic. Currently, XGBoost
uses the legacy CUDA stream, we will gradually remove them in the future in favor of non-blocking streams.
* Generate column matrix from gHistIndex.
* Avoid synchronization with the sparse page once the cache is written.
* Cleanups: Remove member variables/functions, change the update routine to look like approx and gpu_hist.
* Remove pruner.
Fix some tests to run in a temporary directory in case the root
directory is not writable. Note that most of tests are already
running in the temporary directory, so this PR just make them
consistent.
* Extract partitioner from hist.
* Implement categorical data support by passing the gradient index directly into the partitioner.
* Organize/update document.
* Remove code for negative hessian.
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.
* Fix copy for cv. This prevents inserting default callbacks into the input list.
* Clarify the behavior of callbacks in training/cv.
* Fix typos in doc.
* Cleanup some pylint errors.
* Cleanup pylint errors in rabit modules.
* Make data iter an abstract class and cleanup private access.
* Cleanup no-self-use for booster.
- Mention standard install command for R package.
- Remove repeated "get source" step.
- Remove troubleshooting on Windows. It's outdated considering VS 2022 is already out.
* Implement `MaxCategory` in quantile.
* Implement partition-based split for GPU evaluation. Currently, it's based on the existing evaluation function.
* Extract an evaluator from GPU Hist to store the needed states.
* Added some CUDA stream/event utilities.
* Update document with references.
* Fixed a bug in approx evaluator where the number of data points is less than the number of categories.
Empty partition is different from empty dataset. For the former case, each worker has
non-empty dask collections, but each collection might contain empty partition.
This PR prepares the GHistIndexMatrix to host the column matrix which is used by the hist tree method by accepting sparse_threshold parameter.
Some cleanups are made to ensure the correct batch param is being passed into DMatrix along with some additional tests for correctness of SimpleDMatrix.
* Add a new utility for mapping function onto workers.
* Unify the type for feature names.
* Clean up the iterator.
* Fix prediction with DaskDMatrix worker specification.
* Fix base margin with DeviceQuantileDMatrix.
* Support vs 2022 in setup.py.
* Replace all uses of deprecated function sklearn.datasets.load_boston
* More renaming
* Fix bad name
* Update assertion
* Fix n boosted rounds.
* Avoid over regularization.
* Rebase.
* Avoid over regularization.
* Whac-a-mole
Co-authored-by: fis <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
This is the one last PR for removing omp global variable.
* Add context object to the `DMatrix`. This bridges `DMatrix` with https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/7308 .
* Require context to be available at the construction time of booster.
* Add `n_threads` support for R csc DMatrix constructor.
* Remove `omp_get_max_threads` in R glue code.
* Remove threading utilities that rely on omp global variable.
- Add user configuration.
- Bring back to the logic of using scheduler address from dask. This was removed when we were trying to support GKE, now we bring it back and let xgboost try it if direct guess or host IP from user config failed.
Note that when cub inside CUDA is being used, XGBoost performs checks on input size
instead of using internal cub function to accept inputs larger than maximum integer.
* Implement ubjson.
This is a partial implementation of UBJSON with support for typed arrays. Some missing
features are `f64`, typed object, and the no-op.
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.
Instead of accessing data from the `original_page_`, access the data from the first page of the available batch.
fix#7476
Co-authored-by: jiamingy <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
* Add num target model parameter, which is configured from input labels.
* Change elementwise metric and indexing for weights.
* Add demo.
* Add tests.
* Add a new ctor to tensor for `initilizer_list`.
* Change labels from host device vector to tensor.
* Rename the field from `labels_` to `labels` since it's a public member.
This PR changes base_margin into a 3-dim array, with one of them being reserved for multi-target classification. Also, a breaking change is made for binary serialization due to extra dimension along with a fix for saving the feature weights. Lastly, it unifies the prediction initialization between CPU and GPU. After this PR, the meta info setter in Python will be based on array interface.
* [CI] Drop CUDA 10.1; Require 11.0
* Change NCCL version
* Use CUDA 10.1 for clang-tidy, for now
* Remove JDK 11 and 12
* Fix NCCL version
* Don't require 11.0 just yet, until clang-tidy is fixed
* Skip MultiClassesSerializationTest.GpuHist
* Extend array interface to handle ndarray.
The `ArrayInterface` class is extended to support multi-dim array inputs. Previously this
class handles only 2-dim (vector is also matrix). This PR specifies the expected
dimension at compile-time and the array interface can perform various checks automatically
for input data. Also, adapters like CSR are more rigorous about their input. Lastly, row
vector and column vector are handled without intervention from the caller.
* [R] Fix global feature importance.
* Add implementation for tree index. The parameter is not documented in C API since we
should work on porting the model slicing to R instead of supporting more use of tree
index.
* Fix the difference between "gain" and "total_gain".
* debug.
* Fix prediction.
Change from system Python to environment python3. For Ubuntu 20.04, only `python3` is
available and there's no `python`. So at least `python3` is consistent with Python
virtual env, Ubuntu and anaconda.
This is already partially supported but never properly tested. So the only possible way to use it is calling `numpy.ndarray.flatten` with `base_margin` before passing it into XGBoost. This PR adds proper support
for most of the data types along with tests.
Generated using `clang-format -style=google -dump-config > .clang-format`, with column
width changed from 80 to 100 to be consistent with existing cpplint check.
Spark 3.2 depends on 3.7.0-M11 which has changed some implicited functions'
signatures. And it will result the xgboost4j built against spark 3.0/3.1
failed when saving the model.
A new parameter `custom_metric` is added to `train` and `cv` to distinguish the behaviour from the old `feval`. And `feval` is deprecated. The new `custom_metric` receives transformed prediction when the built-in objective is used. This enables XGBoost to use cost functions from other libraries like scikit-learn directly without going through the definition of the link function.
`eval_metric` and `early_stopping_rounds` in sklearn interface are moved from `fit` to `__init__` and is now saved as part of the scikit-learn model. The old ones in `fit` function are now deprecated. The new `eval_metric` in `__init__` has the same new behaviour as `custom_metric`.
Added more detailed documents for the behaviour of custom objective and metric.
Following classes are added to support dataframe in java binding:
- `Column` is an abstract type for a single column in tabular data.
- `ColumnBatch` is an abstract type for dataframe.
- `CuDFColumn` is an implementaiton of `Column` that consume cuDF column
- `CudfColumnBatch` is an implementation of `ColumnBatch` that consumes cuDF dataframe.
- `DeviceQuantileDMatrix` is the interface for quantized data.
The Java implementation mimics the Python interface and uses `__cuda_array_interface__` protocol for memory indexing. One difference is on JVM package, the data batch is staged on the host as java iterators cannot be reset.
Co-authored-by: jiamingy <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
* Support more input types for categorical data.
* Shorten the type name from "categorical" to "c".
* Tests for np/cp array and scipy csr/csc/coo.
* Specify the type for feature info.
* Add hessian to batch param in preparation of new approx impl.
* Extract a push method for gradient index matrix.
* Use span instead of vector ref for hessian in sketching.
* Create a binary format for gradient index.
On GPU we use rouding factor to truncate the gradient for deterministic results. This PR changes the gradient representation to fixed point number with exponent aligned with rounding factor.
[breaking] Drop non-deterministic histogram.
Use fixed point for shared memory.
This PR is to improve the performance of GPU Hist.
Co-authored-by: Andy Adinets <aadinets@nvidia.com>
* [CI] Automatically build GPU-enabled R package for Windows
* Update Jenkinsfile-win64
* Build R package for the release branch only
* Update install doc
Fix bug introduced in 17913713b5 (allow loading from byte array)
When loading model from stream, only last buffer read from the input stream is used to construct the model.
This may work for models smaller than 1 MiB (if you are lucky enough to read the whole model at once), but will always fail if the model is larger.
* Work around a segfault observed in SparsePage::Push()
* Revert "Work around a segfault observed in SparsePage::Push()"
This reverts commit 30934844d00908750a5442082eb4769b1489f6a9.
* Don't call vector::resize() inside OpenMP block
* Set GITHUB_PAT env var to fix R tests
* Use built-in GITHUB_TOKEN
* Disallow importing non-dask estimators from xgboost.dask
This is mostly a style change, but also avoids a user error (that I have
committed on a few occasions). Since `XGBRegressor` and `XGBClassifier`
are imported as parent classes for the `dask` estimators, without
defining an `__all__`, autocomplete (or muscle) memory will produce the
following with little prompting:
```
from xgboost.dask import XGBClassifier
```
There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but given that
`XGBClassifier` is not `dask` enabled, it can lead to confusing behavior
until you figure out you should've typed
```
from xgboost.dask import DaskXGBClassifier
```
Another option is to alias import the existing non-dask estimators.
* Remove base/iter class, add train predict funcs
* Use type aliases for discard iterators
* update to include host_vector as thrust 1.12 doesn't bring it in as a side-effect
* cub::DispatchRadixSort requires signed offset types
- Reduce dependency on dmlc parsers and provide an interface for users to load data by themselves.
- Remove use of threaded iterator and IO queue.
- Remove `page_size`.
- Make sure the number of pages in memory is bounded.
- Make sure the cache can not be violated.
- Provide an interface for internal algorithms to process data asynchronously.
The role of ProxyDMatrix is going beyond what it was designed. Now it's used by both
QuantileDeviceDMatrix and inplace prediction. After the refactoring of sparse DMatrix it
will also be used for external memory. Renaming the C API to extract it from
QuantileDeviceDMatrix.
Other than modularizing the split evaluation function, this PR also removes some more functions including `InitNewNodes` and `BuildNodeStats` among some other unused variables. Also, scattered code like setting leaf weights is grouped into the split evaluator and `NodeEntry` is simplified and made private. Another subtle difference with the original implementation is that the modified code doesn't call `tree[nidx].Parent()` to traversal upward.
* Add feature score support for linear model.
* Port R interface to the new implementation.
* Add linear model support in Python.
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Support categorical data for dask functional interface and DQM.
* Implement categorical data support for GPU GK-merge.
* Add support for dask functional interface.
* Add support for DQM.
* Get newer cupy.
* Categorical prediction with CPU predictor and GPU predict leaf.
* Implement categorical prediction for CPU prediction.
* Implement categorical prediction for GPU predict leaf.
* Refactor the prediction functions to have a unified get next node function.
Co-authored-by: Shvets Kirill <kirill.shvets@intel.com>
* Change C API name.
* Test for all primitive types from array.
* Add native support for CPU 128 float.
* Convert boolean and float16 in Python.
* Fix dask version for now.
The guard protects the global variable from being changed by XGBoost. But this leads to a
bug that the `n_threads` parameter is no longer used after the first iteration. This is
due to the fact that `omp_set_num_threads` is only called once in `Learner::Configure` at
the beginning of the training process.
The guard is still useful for `gpu_id`, since this is called all the times in our codebase
doesn't matter which iteration we are currently running.
currently installing the R-pacakge will leave the repo in dirty state, since
`CmakeLists.txt` is already checked in. This fixes the `cleanup`
script to not delete this file.
* Add `XGBOOST_RABIT_TRACKER_IP_FOR_TEST` to set rabit tracker IP
* change spark and rabit tracker IP to 127.0.0.1on GitHub Action.
Co-authored-by: fis <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
* Re-implement ROC-AUC.
* Binary
* MultiClass
* LTR
* Add documents.
This PR resolves a few issues:
- Define a value when the dataset is invalid, which can happen if there's an
empty dataset, or when the dataset contains only positive or negative values.
- Define ROC-AUC for multi-class classification.
- Define weighted average value for distributed setting.
- A correct implementation for learning to rank task. Previous
implementation is just binary classification with averaging across groups,
which doesn't measure ordered learning to rank.
The [general documentation](https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parameter.html#parameters-for-tree-booster) clearly has alpha and lambda under its "Parameters for Tree Booster" heading. Furthermore, the R package clearly uses alpha and lambda when told to use the tree booster. This update adds those two parameters to the documentation for the R package.
Closed issue #6763.
* [dask] Use `distributed.MultiLock`
This enables training multiple models in parallel.
* Conditionally import `MultiLock`.
* Use async train directly in scikit learn interface.
* Use `worker_client` when available.
* Ensure RMM is 0.18 or later
* Add use_rmm flag to global configuration
* Modify XGBCachingDeviceAllocatorImpl to skip CUB when use_rmm=True
* Update the demo
* [CI] Pin NumPy to 1.19.4, since NumPy 1.19.5 doesn't work with latest Shap
* Save feature info in booster in JSON model.
* [breaking] Remove automatic feature name generation in `DMatrix`.
This PR is to enable reliable feature validation in Python package.
* Add ability to load booster direct from byte array
* fix compiler error
* move InputStream to byte-buffer conversion
- move it from Booster to XGBoost facade class
* Use normal predictor for dart booster.
* Implement `inplace_predict` for dart.
* Enable `dart` for dask interface now that it's thread-safe.
* categorical data should be working out of box for dart now.
The implementation is not very efficient as it has to pull back the data and
apply weight for each tree, but still a significant improvement over previous
implementation as now we no longer binary search for each sample.
* Fix output prediction shape on dataframe.
* Stop printing out message.
* Remove R specialization.
The printed message is not really useful anyway, without a reproducible example
there's no way to fix it. But if there's a reproducible example, we can always
obtain these information by a debugger. Removing the `printf` function avoids
creating the context in kernel.
* Add a new API function for predicting on `DMatrix`. This function aligns
with rest of the `XGBoosterPredictFrom*` functions on semantic of function
arguments.
* Purge `ntree_limit` from libxgboost, use iteration instead.
* [dask] Use `inplace_predict` by default for dask sklearn models.
* [dask] Run prediction shape inference on worker instead of client.
The breaking change is in the Python sklearn `apply` function, I made it to be
consistent with other prediction functions where `best_iteration` is used by
default.
* Accept array interface for csr and array.
* Accept an optional proxy dmatrix for metainfo.
This constructs an explicit `_ProxyDMatrix` type in Python.
* Remove unused doc.
* Add strict output.
This PR changes predict and inplace_predict to accept a Future of model, to avoid sending models to workers repeatably.
* Document is updated to reflect functionality additions in recent changes.
* [dask] Use a 1 line sample to infer output shape.
This is for inferring shape with direct prediction (without DaskDMatrix).
There are a few things that requires known output shape before carrying out
actual prediction, including dask meta data, output dataframe columns.
* Infer output shape based on local prediction.
* Remove set param in predict function as it's not thread safe nor necessary as
we now let dask to decide the parallelism.
* Simplify prediction on `DaskDMatrix`.
This PR ensures all DMatrix types have a common interface.
* Fix logic in avoiding duplicated DMatrix in sklearn.
* Check for consistency between DMatrix types.
* Add doc for bounds.
* [java] extending the library loader to use both OS and CPU architecture.
* Simplifying create_jni.py's architecture detection.
* Tidying up the architecture detection in create_jni.py
The old (before fix) best_ntree_limit ignores the num_class parameters, which is incorrect. In before we workarounded it in c++ layer to avoid possible breaking changes on other language bindings. But the Python interpretation stayed incorrect. The PR fixed that in Python to consider num_class, but didn't remove the old workaround, so tree calculation in predictor is incorrect, see PredictBatch in CPUPredictor.
* 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.
* Update dmlc-core submodule and conform to new API
* Remove unsupported parameter from method signature
* Update dmlc-core submodule and conform to new API
* Update dmlc-core
Co-authored-by: Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* For sklearn:
- Handles user defined objective function.
- Handles `softmax`.
* For dask:
- Use the implementation from sklearn, the previous implementation doesn't perform any extra handling.
* Calling XGBModel.fit() should clear the Booster by default
* Document the behavior of fit()
* Allow sklearn object to be passed in directly via xgb_model argument
* Fix lint
For the `gamma-nloglik` eval metric, small positive values in the labels are causing `NaN`'s in the outputs, as reported here: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/5349. This will add clipping on them, similar to what is done in other metrics like `poisson-nloglik` and `logloss`.
* Implement early stopping with training continuation.
* Add new C API for obtaining boosted rounds.
* Fix off by 1 in `save_best`.
Co-authored-by: Philip Hyunsu Cho <chohyu01@cs.washington.edu>
* Enable loading model from <1.0.0 trained with objective='binary:logitraw'
* Add binary:logitraw in model compatibility testing suite
* Feedback from @trivialfis: Override ProbToMargin() for LogisticRaw
Co-authored-by: Jiaming Yuan <jm.yuan@outlook.com>
* [CI] Upgrade cuDF and RMM to 0.18 nightlies
* Modify RMM plugin to be compatible with RMM 0.18
* Update src/common/device_helpers.cuh
Co-authored-by: Mark Harris <mharris@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Mark Harris <mharris@nvidia.com>
* Vendor libgomp in the manylinux2014_aarch64 wheel
* Use vault repo, since CentOS 6 has reached End-of-Life on Nov 30
* Vendor libgomp in the manylinux2010_x86_64 wheel
* Run verification step inside the container
* 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>
#' The original sample is randomly partitioned into \code{nfold} equal size subsamples.
#'
#' Of the \code{nfold} subsamples, a single subsample is retained as the validation data for testing the model, and the remaining \code{nfold - 1} subsamples are used as training data.
#' Of the \code{nfold} subsamples, a single subsample is retained as the validation data for testing the model,
#' and the remaining \code{nfold - 1} subsamples are used as training data.
#'
#' The cross-validation process is then repeated \code{nrounds} times, with each of the \code{nfold} subsamples used exactly once as the validation data.
#' The cross-validation process is then repeated \code{nrounds} times, with each of the
#' \code{nfold} subsamples used exactly once as the validation data.
#'
#' All observations are used for both training and validation.
#'
@@ -101,9 +103,7 @@
#' parameter or randomly generated.
#' \item \code{best_iteration} iteration number with the best evaluation metric value
#' (only available with early stopping).
#' \item \code{best_ntreelimit} the \code{ntreelimit} value corresponding to the bestiteration,
#' which could further be used in \code{predict} method
#' (only available with early stopping).
#' \item \code{best_ntreelimit} and the \code{ntreelimit} Deprecated attributes, use \code{best_iteration} instead.
#' \item \code{pred} CV prediction values available when \code{prediction} is set.
#' It is either vector or matrix (see \code{\link{cb.cv.predict}}).
#' \item \code{models} a list of the CV folds' models. It is only available with the explicit
#' \item \code{eta} control the learning rate: scale the contribution of each tree by a factor of \code{0 < eta < 1} when it is added to the current approximation. Used to prevent overfitting by making the boosting process more conservative. Lower value for \code{eta} implies larger value for \code{nrounds}: low \code{eta} value means model more robust to overfitting but slower to compute. Default: 0.3
#' \item \code{gamma} minimum loss reduction required to make a further partition on a leaf node of the tree. the larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be.
#' \item{ \code{eta} control the learning rate: scale the contribution of each tree by a factor of \code{0 < eta < 1}
#' when it is added to the current approximation.
#' Used to prevent overfitting by making the boosting process more conservative.
#' Lower value for \code{eta} implies larger value for \code{nrounds}: low \code{eta} value means model
#' more robust to overfitting but slower to compute. Default: 0.3}
#' \item{ \code{gamma} minimum loss reduction required to make a further partition on a leaf node of the tree.
#' the larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be.}
#' \item \code{max_depth} maximum depth of a tree. Default: 6
#' \item\code{min_child_weight} minimum sum of instance weight (hessian) needed in a child. If the tree partition step results in a leaf node with the sum of instance weight less than min_child_weight, then the building process will give up further partitioning. In linear regression mode, this simply corresponds to minimum number of instances needed to be in each node. The larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be. Default: 1
#' \item \code{subsample} subsample ratio of the training instance. Setting it to 0.5 means that xgboost randomly collected half of the data instances to grow trees and this will prevent overfitting. It makes computation shorter (because less data to analyse). It is advised to use this parameter with \code{eta} and increase \code{nrounds}. Default: 1
#' \item{\code{min_child_weight} minimum sum of instance weight (hessian) needed in a child.
#' If the tree partition step results in a leaf node with the sum of instance weight less than min_child_weight,
#' then the building process will give up further partitioning.
#' In linear regression mode, this simply corresponds to minimum number of instances needed to be in each node.
#' The larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be. Default: 1}
#' \item{ \code{subsample} subsample ratio of the training instance.
#' Setting it to 0.5 means that xgboost randomly collected half of the data instances to grow trees
#' and this will prevent overfitting. It makes computation shorter (because less data to analyse).
#' It is advised to use this parameter with \code{eta} and increase \code{nrounds}. Default: 1}
#' \item \code{colsample_bytree} subsample ratio of columns when constructing each tree. Default: 1
#' \item \code{num_parallel_tree} Experimental parameter. number of trees to grow per round. Useful to test Random Forest through Xgboost (set \code{colsample_bytree < 1}, \code{subsample < 1} and \code{round = 1}) accordingly. Default: 1
#' \item \code{monotone_constraints} A numerical vector consists of \code{1}, \code{0} and \code{-1} with its length equals to the number of features in the training data. \code{1} is increasing, \code{-1} is decreasing and \code{0} is no constraint.
#' \item \code{interaction_constraints} A list of vectors specifying feature indices of permitted interactions. Each item of the list represents one permitted interaction where specified features are allowed to interact with each other. Feature index values should start from \code{0} (\code{0} references the first column). Leave argument unspecified for no interaction constraints.
#' \item \code{lambda} L2 regularization term on weights. Default: 1
#' \item \code{alpha} L1 regularization term on weights. (there is no L1 reg on bias because it is not important). Default: 0
#' \item{ \code{num_parallel_tree} Experimental parameter. number of trees to grow per round.
#' \item{ \code{monotone_constraints} A numerical vector consists of \code{1}, \code{0} and \code{-1} with its length
#' equals to the number of features in the training data.
#' \code{1} is increasing, \code{-1} is decreasing and \code{0} is no constraint.}
#' \item{ \code{interaction_constraints} A list of vectors specifying feature indices of permitted interactions.
#' Each item of the list represents one permitted interaction where specified features are allowed to interact with each other.
#' Feature index values should start from \code{0} (\code{0} references the first column).
#' Leave argument unspecified for no interaction constraints.}
#' }
#'
#' 2.2. Parameter for Linear Booster
#' 2.2. Parameters for Linear Booster
#'
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{lambda} L2 regularization term on weights. Default: 0
@@ -40,29 +62,53 @@
#' 3. Task Parameters
#'
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{objective} specify the learning task and the corresponding learning objective, users can pass a self-defined function to it. The default objective options are below:
#' \item{ \code{objective} specify the learning task and the corresponding learning objective, users can pass a self-defined function to it.
#' The default objective options are below:
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{reg:squarederror} Regression with squared loss (Default).
#' \item \code{reg:squaredlogerror}: regression with squared log loss \eqn{1/2 * (log(pred + 1) - log(label + 1))^2}. All inputs are required to be greater than -1. Also, see metric rmsle for possible issue with this objective.
#' \item{ \code{reg:squaredlogerror}: regression with squared log loss \eqn{1/2 * (log(pred + 1) - log(label + 1))^2}.
#' All inputs are required to be greater than -1.
#' Also, see metric rmsle for possible issue with this objective.}
#' \item \code{reg:logistic} logistic regression.
#' \item \code{reg:pseudohubererror}: regression with Pseudo Huber loss, a twice differentiable alternative to absolute loss.
#' \item \code{binary:logistic} logistic regression for binary classification. Output probability.
#' \item \code{binary:logitraw} logistic regression for binary classification, output score before logistic transformation.
#' \item \code{binary:hinge}: hinge loss for binary classification. This makes predictions of 0 or 1, rather than producing probabilities.
#' \item \code{count:poisson}: poisson regression for count data, output mean of poisson distribution. \code{max_delta_step} is set to 0.7 by default in poisson regression (used to safeguard optimization).
#' \item \code{survival:cox}: Cox regression for right censored survival time data (negative values are considered right censored). Note that predictions are returned on the hazard ratio scale (i.e., as HR = exp(marginal_prediction) in the proportional hazard function \code{h(t) = h0(t) * HR)}.
#' \item \code{survival:aft}: Accelerated failure time model for censored survival time data. See \href{https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/aft_survival_analysis.html}{Survival Analysis with Accelerated Failure Time} for details.
#' \item \code{aft_loss_distribution}: Probabilty Density Function used by \code{survival:aft} and \code{aft-nloglik} metric.
#' \item \code{multi:softmax} set xgboost to do multiclass classification using the softmax objective. Class is represented by a number and should be from 0 to \code{num_class - 1}.
#' \item \code{multi:softprob} same as softmax, but prediction outputs a vector of ndata * nclass elements, which can be further reshaped to ndata, nclass matrix. The result contains predicted probabilities of each data point belonging to each class.
#' \item{ \code{count:poisson}: Poisson regression for count data, output mean of Poisson distribution.
#' \code{max_delta_step} is set to 0.7 by default in poisson regression (used to safeguard optimization).}
#' \item{ \code{survival:cox}: Cox regression for right censored survival time data (negative values are considered right censored).
#' Note that predictions are returned on the hazard ratio scale (i.e., as HR = exp(marginal_prediction) in the proportional
#' hazard function \code{h(t) = h0(t) * HR)}.}
#' \item{ \code{survival:aft}: Accelerated failure time model for censored survival time data. See
#' \href{https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/aft_survival_analysis.html}{Survival Analysis with Accelerated Failure Time}
#' for details.}
#' \item \code{aft_loss_distribution}: Probability Density Function used by \code{survival:aft} and \code{aft-nloglik} metric.
#' \item{ \code{multi:softmax} set xgboost to do multiclass classification using the softmax objective.
#' Class is represented by a number and should be from 0 to \code{num_class - 1}.}
#' \item{ \code{multi:softprob} same as softmax, but prediction outputs a vector of ndata * nclass elements, which can be
#' further reshaped to ndata, nclass matrix. The result contains predicted probabilities of each data point belonging
#' to each class.}
#' \item \code{rank:pairwise} set xgboost to do ranking task by minimizing the pairwise loss.
#' \item \code{rank:ndcg}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cumulative_gain}{Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)} is maximized.
#' \item \code{rank:map}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_measures_(information_retrieval)#Mean_average_precision}{Mean Average Precision (MAP)} is maximized.
#' \item \code{reg:gamma}: gamma regression with log-link. Output is a mean of gamma distribution. It might be useful, e.g., for modeling insurance claims severity, or for any outcome that might be \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution#Applications}{gamma-distributed}.
#' \item \code{reg:tweedie}: Tweedie regression with log-link. It might be useful, e.g., for modeling total loss in insurance, or for any outcome that might be \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweedie_distribution#Applications}{Tweedie-distributed}.
#' \item{ \code{rank:ndcg}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where
#' \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cumulative_gain}{Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)} is maximized.}
#' \item{ \code{rank:map}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where
#' \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_measures_(information_retrieval)#Mean_average_precision}{Mean Average Precision (MAP)}
#' is maximized.}
#' \item{ \code{reg:gamma}: gamma regression with log-link.
#' Output is a mean of gamma distribution.
#' It might be useful, e.g., for modeling insurance claims severity, or for any outcome that might be
#' \item \code{base_score} the initial prediction score of all instances, global bias. Default: 0.5
#' \item \code{eval_metric} evaluation metrics for validation data. Users can pass a self-defined function to it. Default: metric will be assigned according to objective(rmse for regression, and error for classification, mean average precision for ranking). List is provided in detail section.
#' \item{ \code{eval_metric} evaluation metrics for validation data.
#' Users can pass a self-defined function to it.
#' Default: metric will be assigned according to objective
#' (rmse for regression, and error for classification, mean average precision for ranking).
#' List is provided in detail section.}
#' }
#'
#' @param data training dataset. \code{xgb.train} accepts only an \code{xgb.DMatrix} as the input.
@@ -124,11 +170,11 @@
#' Parallelization is automatically enabled if \code{OpenMP} is present.
#' Number of threads can also be manually specified via \code{nthread} parameter.
#'
#' The evaluation metric is chosen automatically by Xgboost (according to the objective)
#' The evaluation metric is chosen automatically by XGBoost (according to the objective)
#' when the \code{eval_metric} parameter is not provided.
#' User may set one or several \code{eval_metric} parameters.
#' Note that when using a customized metric, only this single metric can be used.
#' The following is the list of built-in metrics for which Xgboost provides optimized implementation:
#' The following is the list of built-in metrics for which XGBoost provides optimized implementation:
#' \itemize{
#' \item \code{rmse} root mean square error. \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square_error}
#' \item \code{merror} Multiclass classification error rate. It is calculated as \code{(# wrong cases) / (# all cases)}.
#' \item \code{mae} Mean absolute error
#' \item \code{mape} Mean absolute percentage error
#' \item \code{auc} Area under the curve. \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic#'Area_under_curve} for ranking evaluation.
#' \item{ \code{auc} Area under the curve.
#' \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic#'Area_under_curve} for ranking evaluation.}
#' \item \code{aucpr} Area under the PR curve. \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall} for ranking evaluation.
# Create a copy of the dataset with data.table package (data.table is 100% compliant with R dataframe but its syntax is a lot more consistent and its performance are really good).
# Create a copy of the dataset with data.table package
# (data.table is 100% compliant with R dataframe but its syntax is a lot more consistent
# and its performance are really good).
df<-data.table(Arthritis,keep.rownames=FALSE)
# Let's add some new categorical features to see if it helps. Of course these feature are highly correlated to the Age feature. Usually it's not a good thing in ML, but Tree algorithms (including boosted trees) are able to select the best features, even in case of highly correlated features.
# For the first feature we create groups of age by rounding the real age. Note that we transform it to factor (categorical data) so the algorithm treat them as independant values.
# Let's add some new categorical features to see if it helps.
# Of course these feature are highly correlated to the Age feature.
# Usually it's not a good thing in ML, but Tree algorithms (including boosted trees) are able to select the best features,
# even in case of highly correlated features.
# For the first feature we create groups of age by rounding the real age.
# Note that we transform it to factor (categorical data) so the algorithm treat them as independant values.
df[,AgeDiscret:=as.factor(round(Age/10,0))]
# Here is an even stronger simplification of the real age with an arbitrary split at 30 years old. I choose this value based on nothing. We will see later if simplifying the information based on arbitrary values is a good strategy (I am sure you already have an idea of how well it will work!).
# Here is an even stronger simplification of the real age with an arbitrary split at 30 years old.
# I choose this value based on nothing.
# We will see later if simplifying the information based on arbitrary values is a good strategy
# (I am sure you already have an idea of how well it will work!).
install.packages('vcd')#Available in Cran. Used for its dataset with categorical values.
install.packages('vcd')#Available in CRAN. Used for its dataset with categorical values.
require(vcd)
}
# According to its documentation, Xgboost works only on numbers.
# According to its documentation, XGBoost works only on numbers.
# Sometimes the dataset we have to work on have categorical data.
# A categorical variable is one which have a fixed number of values. By example, if for each observation a variable called "Colour" can have only "red", "blue" or "green" as value, it is a categorical variable.
# A categorical variable is one which have a fixed number of values.
# By example, if for each observation a variable called "Colour" can have only
# "red", "blue" or "green" as value, it is a categorical variable.
#
# In R, categorical variable is called Factor.
# Type ?factor in console for more information.
#
# In this demo we will see how to transform a dense dataframe with categorical variables to a sparse matrix before analyzing it in Xgboost.
# In this demo we will see how to transform a dense dataframe with categorical variables to a sparse matrix
# before analyzing it in XGBoost.
# The method we are going to see is usually called "one hot encoding".
#load Arthritis dataset in memory.
data(Arthritis)
# create a copy of the dataset with data.table package (data.table is 100% compliant with R dataframe but its syntax is a lot more consistent and its performance are really good).
# create a copy of the dataset with data.table package
# (data.table is 100% compliant with R dataframe but its syntax is a lot more consistent
# and its performance are really good).
df<-data.table(Arthritis,keep.rownames=FALSE)
# Let's have a look to the data.table
cat("Print the dataset\n")
print(df)
# 2 columns have factor type, one has ordinal type (ordinal variable is a categorical variable with values wich can be ordered, here: None > Some > Marked).
# 2 columns have factor type, one has ordinal type
# (ordinal variable is a categorical variable with values which can be ordered, here: None > Some > Marked).
cat("Structure of the dataset\n")
str(df)
# Let's add some new categorical features to see if it helps. Of course these feature are highly correlated to the Age feature. Usually it's not a good thing in ML, but Tree algorithms (including boosted trees) are able to select the best features, even in case of highly correlated features.
# Let's add some new categorical features to see if it helps.
# Of course these feature are highly correlated to the Age feature.
# Usually it's not a good thing in ML, but Tree algorithms (including boosted trees) are able to select the best features,
# even in case of highly correlated features.
# For the first feature we create groups of age by rounding the real age. Note that we transform it to factor (categorical data) so the algorithm treat them as independant values.
# For the first feature we create groups of age by rounding the real age.
# Note that we transform it to factor (categorical data) so the algorithm treat them as independent values.
df[,AgeDiscret:=as.factor(round(Age/10,0))]
# Here is an even stronger simplification of the real age with an arbitrary split at 30 years old. I choose this value based on nothing. We will see later if simplifying the information based on arbitrary values is a good strategy (I am sure you already have an idea of how well it will work!).
# Here is an even stronger simplification of the real age with an arbitrary split at 30 years old.
# I choose this value based on nothing.
# We will see later if simplifying the information based on arbitrary values is a good strategy
# (I am sure you already have an idea of how well it will work!).
# We remove ID as there is nothing to learn from this feature (it will just add some noise as the dataset is small).
@@ -48,7 +61,10 @@ print(levels(df[, Treatment]))
# This method is also called one hot encoding.
# The purpose is to transform each value of each categorical feature in one binary feature.
#
# Let's take, the column Treatment will be replaced by two columns, Placebo, and Treated. Each of them will be binary. For example an observation which had the value Placebo in column Treatment before the transformation will have, after the transformation, the value 1 in the new column Placebo and the value 0 in the new column Treated.
# Let's take, the column Treatment will be replaced by two columns, Placebo, and Treated.
# Each of them will be binary.
# For example an observation which had the value Placebo in column Treatment before the transformation will have, after the transformation,
# the value 1 in the new column Placebo and the value 0 in the new column Treated.
#
# Formulae Improved~.-1 used below means transform all categorical features but column Improved to binary values.
# Column Improved is excluded because it will be our output column, the one we want to predict.
# According to the matrix below, the most important feature in this dataset to predict if the treatment will work is the Age. The second most important feature is having received a placebo or not. The sex is third. Then we see our generated features (AgeDiscret). We can see that their contribution is very low (Gain column).
# According to the matrix below, the most important feature in this dataset to predict if the treatment will work is the Age.
# The second most important feature is having received a placebo or not.
# The sex is third.
# Then we see our generated features (AgeDiscret). We can see that their contribution is very low (Gain column).
# Does these result make sense?
# Let's check some Chi2 between each of these features and the outcome.
# Our first simplification of Age gives a Pearson correlation of 8.
print(chisq.test(df$AgeCat,df$Y))
# The perfectly random split I did between young and old at 30 years old have a low correlation of 2. It's a result we may expect as may be in my mind > 30 years is being old (I am 32 and starting feeling old, this may explain that), but for the illness we are studying, the age to be vulnerable is not the same. Don't let your "gut" lower the quality of your model. In "data science", there is science :-)
# The perfectly random split I did between young and old at 30 years old have a low correlation of 2.
# It's a result we may expect as may be in my mind > 30 years is being old (I am 32 and starting feeling old, this may explain that),
# but for the illness we are studying, the age to be vulnerable is not the same.
# Don't let your "gut" lower the quality of your model. In "data science", there is science :-)
# As you can see, in general destroying information by simplifying it won't improve your model. Chi2 just demonstrates that. But in more complex cases, creating a new feature based on existing one which makes link with the outcome more obvious may help the algorithm and improve the model. The case studied here is not enough complex to show that. Check Kaggle forum for some challenging datasets.
# As you can see, in general destroying information by simplifying it won't improve your model.
# Chi2 just demonstrates that.
# But in more complex cases, creating a new feature based on existing one which makes link with the outcome
# more obvious may help the algorithm and improve the model.
# The case studied here is not enough complex to show that. Check Kaggle forum for some challenging datasets.
# However it's almost always worse when you add some arbitrary rules.
# Moreover, you can notice that even if we have added some not useful new features highly correlated with other features, the boosting tree algorithm have been able to choose the best one, which in this case is the Age. Linear model may not be that strong in these scenario.
# Moreover, you can notice that even if we have added some not useful new features highly correlated with
# other features, the boosting tree algorithm have been able to choose the best one, which in this case is the Age.
# Linear model may not be that strong in these scenario.
@@ -135,9 +135,7 @@ An object of class \code{xgb.cv.synchronous} with the following elements:
parameter or randomly generated.
\item \code{best_iteration} iteration number with the best evaluation metric value
(only available with early stopping).
\item \code{best_ntreelimit} the \code{ntreelimit} value corresponding to the bestiteration,
which could further be used in \code{predict} method
(only available with early stopping).
\item \code{best_ntreelimit} and the \code{ntreelimit} Deprecated attributes, use \code{best_iteration} instead.
\item \code{pred} CV prediction values available when \code{prediction} is set.
It is either vector or matrix (see \code{\link{cb.cv.predict}}).
\item \code{models} a list of the CV folds' models. It is only available with the explicit
@@ -150,9 +148,11 @@ The cross validation function of xgboost
\details{
The original sample is randomly partitioned into \code{nfold} equal size subsamples.
Of the \code{nfold} subsamples, a single subsample is retained as the validation data for testing the model, and the remaining \code{nfold - 1} subsamples are used as training data.
Of the \code{nfold} subsamples, a single subsample is retained as the validation data for testing the model,
and the remaining \code{nfold - 1} subsamples are used as training data.
The cross-validation process is then repeated \code{nrounds} times, with each of the \code{nfold} subsamples used exactly once as the validation data.
The cross-validation process is then repeated \code{nrounds} times, with each of the
\code{nfold} subsamples used exactly once as the validation data.
All observations are used for both training and validation.
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Adapted from \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_\%28statistics\
\item \code{eta} control the learning rate: scale the contribution of each tree by a factor of \code{0 < eta < 1} when it is added to the current approximation. Used to prevent overfitting by making the boosting process more conservative. Lower value for \code{eta} implies larger value for \code{nrounds}: low \code{eta} value means model more robust to overfitting but slower to compute. Default: 0.3
\item \code{gamma} minimum loss reduction required to make a further partition on a leaf node of the tree. the larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be.
\item{ \code{eta} control the learning rate: scale the contribution of each tree by a factor of \code{0 < eta < 1}
when it is added to the current approximation.
Used to prevent overfitting by making the boosting process more conservative.
Lower value for \code{eta} implies larger value for \code{nrounds}: low \code{eta} value means model
more robust to overfitting but slower to compute. Default: 0.3}
\item{ \code{gamma} minimum loss reduction required to make a further partition on a leaf node of the tree.
the larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be.}
\item \code{max_depth} maximum depth of a tree. Default: 6
\item\code{min_child_weight} minimum sum of instance weight (hessian) needed in a child. If the tree partition step results in a leaf node with the sum of instance weight less than min_child_weight, then the building process will give up further partitioning. In linear regression mode, this simply corresponds to minimum number of instances needed to be in each node. The larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be. Default: 1
\item \code{subsample} subsample ratio of the training instance. Setting it to 0.5 means that xgboost randomly collected half of the data instances to grow trees and this will prevent overfitting. It makes computation shorter (because less data to analyse). It is advised to use this parameter with \code{eta} and increase \code{nrounds}. Default: 1
\item{\code{min_child_weight} minimum sum of instance weight (hessian) needed in a child.
If the tree partition step results in a leaf node with the sum of instance weight less than min_child_weight,
then the building process will give up further partitioning.
In linear regression mode, this simply corresponds to minimum number of instances needed to be in each node.
The larger, the more conservative the algorithm will be. Default: 1}
\item{ \code{subsample} subsample ratio of the training instance.
Setting it to 0.5 means that xgboost randomly collected half of the data instances to grow trees
and this will prevent overfitting. It makes computation shorter (because less data to analyse).
It is advised to use this parameter with \code{eta} and increase \code{nrounds}. Default: 1}
\item \code{colsample_bytree} subsample ratio of columns when constructing each tree. Default: 1
\item \code{num_parallel_tree} Experimental parameter. number of trees to grow per round. Useful to test Random Forest through Xgboost (set \code{colsample_bytree < 1}, \code{subsample < 1} and \code{round = 1}) accordingly. Default: 1
\item \code{monotone_constraints} A numerical vector consists of \code{1}, \code{0} and \code{-1} with its length equals to the number of features in the training data. \code{1} is increasing, \code{-1} is decreasing and \code{0} is no constraint.
\item \code{interaction_constraints} A list of vectors specifying feature indices of permitted interactions. Each item of the list represents one permitted interaction where specified features are allowed to interact with each other. Feature index values should start from \code{0} (\code{0} references the first column). Leave argument unspecified for no interaction constraints.
\item \code{lambda} L2 regularization term on weights. Default: 1
\item \code{alpha} L1 regularization term on weights. (there is no L1 reg on bias because it is not important). Default: 0
\item{ \code{num_parallel_tree} Experimental parameter. number of trees to grow per round.
\item{ \code{monotone_constraints} A numerical vector consists of \code{1}, \code{0} and \code{-1} with its length
equals to the number of features in the training data.
\code{1} is increasing, \code{-1} is decreasing and \code{0} is no constraint.}
\item{ \code{interaction_constraints} A list of vectors specifying feature indices of permitted interactions.
Each item of the list represents one permitted interaction where specified features are allowed to interact with each other.
Feature index values should start from \code{0} (\code{0} references the first column).
Leave argument unspecified for no interaction constraints.}
}
2.2. Parameter for Linear Booster
2.2. Parameters for Linear Booster
\itemize{
\item \code{lambda} L2 regularization term on weights. Default: 0
@@ -79,29 +101,53 @@ xgboost(
3. Task Parameters
\itemize{
\item \code{objective} specify the learning task and the corresponding learning objective, users can pass a self-defined function to it. The default objective options are below:
\item{ \code{objective} specify the learning task and the corresponding learning objective, users can pass a self-defined function to it.
The default objective options are below:
\itemize{
\item \code{reg:squarederror} Regression with squared loss (Default).
\item \code{reg:squaredlogerror}: regression with squared log loss \eqn{1/2 * (log(pred + 1) - log(label + 1))^2}. All inputs are required to be greater than -1. Also, see metric rmsle for possible issue with this objective.
\item{ \code{reg:squaredlogerror}: regression with squared log loss \eqn{1/2 * (log(pred + 1) - log(label + 1))^2}.
All inputs are required to be greater than -1.
Also, see metric rmsle for possible issue with this objective.}
\item \code{reg:logistic} logistic regression.
\item \code{reg:pseudohubererror}: regression with Pseudo Huber loss, a twice differentiable alternative to absolute loss.
\item \code{binary:logistic} logistic regression for binary classification. Output probability.
\item \code{binary:logitraw} logistic regression for binary classification, output score before logistic transformation.
\item \code{binary:hinge}: hinge loss for binary classification. This makes predictions of 0 or 1, rather than producing probabilities.
\item \code{count:poisson}: poisson regression for count data, output mean of poisson distribution. \code{max_delta_step} is set to 0.7 by default in poisson regression (used to safeguard optimization).
\item \code{survival:cox}: Cox regression for right censored survival time data (negative values are considered right censored). Note that predictions are returned on the hazard ratio scale (i.e., as HR = exp(marginal_prediction) in the proportional hazard function \code{h(t) = h0(t) * HR)}.
\item \code{survival:aft}: Accelerated failure time model for censored survival time data. See \href{https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/aft_survival_analysis.html}{Survival Analysis with Accelerated Failure Time} for details.
\item \code{aft_loss_distribution}: Probabilty Density Function used by \code{survival:aft} and \code{aft-nloglik} metric.
\item \code{multi:softmax} set xgboost to do multiclass classification using the softmax objective. Class is represented by a number and should be from 0 to \code{num_class - 1}.
\item \code{multi:softprob} same as softmax, but prediction outputs a vector of ndata * nclass elements, which can be further reshaped to ndata, nclass matrix. The result contains predicted probabilities of each data point belonging to each class.
\item{ \code{count:poisson}: Poisson regression for count data, output mean of Poisson distribution.
\code{max_delta_step} is set to 0.7 by default in poisson regression (used to safeguard optimization).}
\item{ \code{survival:cox}: Cox regression for right censored survival time data (negative values are considered right censored).
Note that predictions are returned on the hazard ratio scale (i.e., as HR = exp(marginal_prediction) in the proportional
hazard function \code{h(t) = h0(t) * HR)}.}
\item{ \code{survival:aft}: Accelerated failure time model for censored survival time data. See
\href{https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/aft_survival_analysis.html}{Survival Analysis with Accelerated Failure Time}
for details.}
\item \code{aft_loss_distribution}: Probability Density Function used by \code{survival:aft} and \code{aft-nloglik} metric.
\item{ \code{multi:softmax} set xgboost to do multiclass classification using the softmax objective.
Class is represented by a number and should be from 0 to \code{num_class - 1}.}
\item{ \code{multi:softprob} same as softmax, but prediction outputs a vector of ndata * nclass elements, which can be
further reshaped to ndata, nclass matrix. The result contains predicted probabilities of each data point belonging
to each class.}
\item \code{rank:pairwise} set xgboost to do ranking task by minimizing the pairwise loss.
\item \code{rank:ndcg}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cumulative_gain}{Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)} is maximized.
\item \code{rank:map}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_measures_(information_retrieval)#Mean_average_precision}{Mean Average Precision (MAP)} is maximized.
\item \code{reg:gamma}: gamma regression with log-link. Output is a mean of gamma distribution. It might be useful, e.g., for modeling insurance claims severity, or for any outcome that might be \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution#Applications}{gamma-distributed}.
\item \code{reg:tweedie}: Tweedie regression with log-link. It might be useful, e.g., for modeling total loss in insurance, or for any outcome that might be \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweedie_distribution#Applications}{Tweedie-distributed}.
\item{ \code{rank:ndcg}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where
\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cumulative_gain}{Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)} is maximized.}
\item{ \code{rank:map}: Use LambdaMART to perform list-wise ranking where
\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_measures_(information_retrieval)#Mean_average_precision}{Mean Average Precision (MAP)}
is maximized.}
\item{ \code{reg:gamma}: gamma regression with log-link.
Output is a mean of gamma distribution.
It might be useful, e.g., for modeling insurance claims severity, or for any outcome that might be
\item \code{base_score} the initial prediction score of all instances, global bias. Default: 0.5
\item \code{eval_metric} evaluation metrics for validation data. Users can pass a self-defined function to it. Default: metric will be assigned according to objective(rmse for regression, and error for classification, mean average precision for ranking). List is provided in detail section.
\item{ \code{eval_metric} evaluation metrics for validation data.
Users can pass a self-defined function to it.
Default: metric will be assigned according to objective
(rmse for regression, and error for classification, mean average precision for ranking).
List is provided in detail section.}
}}
\item{data}{training dataset. \code{xgb.train} accepts only an \code{xgb.DMatrix} as the input.
@@ -185,9 +231,6 @@ An object of class \code{xgb.Booster} with the following elements:
explicitly passed.
\item \code{best_iteration} iteration number with the best evaluation metric value
(only available with early stopping).
\item \code{best_ntreelimit} the \code{ntreelimit} value corresponding to the best iteration,
which could further be used in \code{predict} method
(only available with early stopping).
\item \code{best_score} the best evaluation metric value during early stopping.
(only available with early stopping).
\item \code{feature_names} names of the training dataset features
@@ -209,11 +252,11 @@ than the \code{xgboost} interface.
Parallelization is automatically enabled if \code{OpenMP} is present.
Number of threads can also be manually specified via \code{nthread} parameter.
The evaluation metric is chosen automatically by Xgboost (according to the objective)
The evaluation metric is chosen automatically by XGBoost (according to the objective)
when the \code{eval_metric} parameter is not provided.
User may set one or several \code{eval_metric} parameters.
Note that when using a customized metric, only this single metric can be used.
The following is the list of built-in metrics for which Xgboost provides optimized implementation:
The following is the list of built-in metrics for which XGBoost provides optimized implementation:
\itemize{
\item \code{rmse} root mean square error. \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square_error}
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