xgboost/CONTRIBUTORS.md
Henry Gouk 64b8cffde3 Refactor of FastHistMaker to allow for custom regularisation methods (#3335)
* Refactor to allow for custom regularisation methods

* Implement compositional SplitEvaluator framework

* Fixed segfault when no monotone_constraints are supplied.

* Change pid to parentID

* test_monotone_constraints.py now passes

* Refactor ColMaker and DistColMaker to use SplitEvaluator

* Performance optimisation when no monotone_constraints specified

* Fix linter messages

* Fix a few more linter errors

* Update the amalgamation

* Add bounds check

* Add check for leaf node

* Fix linter error in param.h

* Fix clang-tidy errors on CI

* Fix incorrect function name

* Fix clang-tidy error in updater_fast_hist.cc

* Enable SSE2 for Win32 R MinGW

Addresses https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/3335#issuecomment-400535752

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Contributors of DMLC/XGBoost

XGBoost has been developed and used by a group of active community. Everyone is more than welcomed to is a great way to make the project better and more accessible to more users.

Committers

Committers are people who have made substantial contribution to the project and granted write access to the project.

  • Tianqi Chen, University of Washington
    • Tianqi is a PhD working on large-scale machine learning, he is the creator of the project.
  • Tong He, Amazon AI
    • Tong is an applied scientist in Amazon AI, he is the maintainer of xgboost R package.
  • Vadim Khotilovich
    • Vadim contributes many improvements in R and core packages.
  • Bing Xu
    • Bing is the original creator of xgboost python package and currently the maintainer of XGBoost.jl.
  • Michael Benesty
    • Micheal is a lawyer, data scientist in France, he is the creator of xgboost interactive analysis module in R.
  • Yuan Tang
    • Yuan is a data scientist in Chicago, US. He contributed mostly in R and Python packages.
  • Nan Zhu
    • Nan is a software engineer in Microsoft. He contributed mostly in JVM packages.
  • Sergei Lebedev
    • Serget is a software engineer in Criteo. He contributed mostly in JVM packages.

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New committers will be proposed by current committer members, with support from more than two of current committers.

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