xgboost/include/xgboost/tree_updater.h
Jiaming Yuan 3e26107a9c
Rename and extract Context. (#8528)
* Rename `GenericParameter` to `Context`.
* Rename header file to reflect the change.
* Rename all references.
2022-12-07 04:58:54 +08:00

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/*!
* Copyright 2014-2022 by XGBoost 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 <xgboost/base.h>
#include <xgboost/context.h>
#include <xgboost/data.h>
#include <xgboost/host_device_vector.h>
#include <xgboost/linalg.h>
#include <xgboost/model.h>
#include <xgboost/task.h>
#include <xgboost/tree_model.h>
#include <functional>
#include <string>
#include <utility>
#include <vector>
namespace xgboost {
class Json;
struct Context;
/*!
* \brief interface of tree update module, that performs update of a tree.
*/
class TreeUpdater : public Configurable {
protected:
Context const* ctx_ = nullptr;
public:
explicit TreeUpdater(const Context* ctx) : ctx_(ctx) {}
/*! \brief virtual destructor */
~TreeUpdater() override = default;
/*!
* \brief Initialize the updater with given arguments.
* \param args arguments to the objective function.
*/
virtual void Configure(const Args& args) = 0;
/*! \brief Whether this updater can be used for updating existing trees.
*
* Some updaters are used for building new trees (like `hist`), while some others are
* used for modifying existing trees (like `prune`). Return true if it can modify
* existing trees.
*/
virtual bool CanModifyTree() const { return false; }
/*!
* \brief Wether the out_position in `Update` is valid. This determines whether adaptive
* tree can be used.
*/
virtual bool HasNodePosition() const { return false; }
/*!
* \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 out_position The leaf index for each row. The index is negated if that row is
* removed during sampling. So the 3th node is ~3.
* \param out_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(HostDeviceVector<GradientPair>* gpair, DMatrix* data,
common::Span<HostDeviceVector<bst_node_t>> out_position,
const std::vector<RegTree*>& out_trees) = 0;
/*!
* \brief determines whether updater has enough knowledge about a given dataset
* to quickly update prediction cache its training data and performs the
* update if possible.
* \param data: data matrix
* \param out_preds: prediction cache to be updated
* \return boolean indicating whether updater has capability to update
* the prediction cache. If true, the prediction cache will have been
* updated by the time this function returns.
*/
virtual bool UpdatePredictionCache(const DMatrix * /*data*/,
linalg::VectorView<float> /*out_preds*/) {
return false;
}
virtual char const* Name() const = 0;
/*!
* \brief Create a tree updater given name
* \param name Name of the tree updater.
* \param ctx A global runtime parameter
*/
static TreeUpdater* Create(const std::string& name, Context const* ctx, ObjInfo task);
};
/*!
* \brief Registry entry for tree updater.
*/
struct TreeUpdaterReg
: public dmlc::FunctionRegEntryBase<
TreeUpdaterReg, std::function<TreeUpdater*(Context const* ctx, ObjInfo task)>> {};
/*!
* \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 DMLC_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED ::xgboost::TreeUpdaterReg& \
__make_ ## TreeUpdaterReg ## _ ## UniqueId ## __ = \
::dmlc::Registry< ::xgboost::TreeUpdaterReg>::Get()->__REGISTER__(Name)
} // namespace xgboost
#endif // XGBOOST_TREE_UPDATER_H_