xgboost/include/xgboost/tree_updater.h
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/*!
* Copyright 2014 by Contributors
* \file tree_updater.h
* \brief General primitive for tree learning,
* Updating a collection of trees given the information.
* \author Tianqi Chen
*/
#ifndef XGBOOST_TREE_UPDATER_H_
#define XGBOOST_TREE_UPDATER_H_
#include <dmlc/registry.h>
#include <vector>
#include <utility>
#include <string>
#include "./base.h"
#include "./data.h"
#include "./tree_model.h"
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#include <functional>
#endif
namespace xgboost {
/*!
* \brief interface of tree update module, that performs update of a tree.
*/
class TreeUpdater {
public:
/*! \brief virtual destructor */
virtual ~TreeUpdater() {}
/*!
* \brief Initialize the updater with given arguments.
* \param args arguments to the objective function.
*/
virtual void Init(const std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::string> >& args) = 0;
/*!
* \brief perform update to the tree models
* \param gpair the gradient pair statistics of the data
* \param data The data matrix passed to the updater.
* \param trees references the trees to be updated, updater will change the content of trees
* note: all the trees in the vector are updated, with the same statistics,
* but maybe different random seeds, usually one tree is passed in at a time,
* there can be multiple trees when we train random forest style model
*/
virtual void Update(const std::vector<bst_gpair>& gpair,
DMatrix* data,
const std::vector<RegTree*>& trees) = 0;
/*!
* \brief this is simply a function for optimizing performance
* this function asks the updater to return the leaf position of each instance in the previous performed update.
* if it is cached in the updater, if it is not available, return nullptr
* \return array of leaf position of each instance in the last updated tree
*/
virtual const int* GetLeafPosition() const {
return nullptr;
}
/*!
* \brief Create a tree updater given name
* \param name Name of the tree updater.
*/
static TreeUpdater* Create(const std::string& name);
};
/*!
* \brief Registry entry for tree updater.
*/
struct TreeUpdaterReg
: public dmlc::FunctionRegEntryBase<TreeUpdaterReg,
std::function<TreeUpdater* ()> > {
};
/*!
* \brief Macro to register tree updater.
*
* \code
* // example of registering a objective ndcg@k
* XGBOOST_REGISTER_TREE_UPDATER(ColMaker, "colmaker")
* .describe("Column based tree maker.")
* .set_body([]() {
* return new ColMaker<TStats>();
* });
* \endcode
*/
#define XGBOOST_REGISTER_TREE_UPDATER(UniqueId, Name) \
static ::xgboost::TreeUpdaterReg& __make_ ## TreeUpdaterReg ## _ ## UniqueId ## __ = \
::dmlc::Registry< ::xgboost::TreeUpdaterReg>::Get()->__REGISTER__(Name)
} // namespace xgboost
#endif // XGBOOST_TREE_UPDATER_H_