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AbdealiJK 6f16f0ef58 Use bst_float consistently throughout (#1824)
* Fix various typos

* Add override to functions that are overridden

gcc gives warnings about functions that are being overridden by not
being marked as oveirridden. This fixes it.

* Use bst_float consistently

Use bst_float for all the variables that involve weight,
leaf value, gradient, hessian, gain, loss_chg, predictions,
base_margin, feature values.

In some cases, when due to additions and so on the value can
take a larger value, double is used.

This ensures that type conversions are minimal and reduces loss of
precision.
2016-11-30 10:02:10 -08:00

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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, Simon Fraser University
    • Tong is a master student working on data mining, he is the maintainer of xgboost R package.
  • 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.

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