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* Created objectives and metrics xentropy and xentropy1

* Some coment and code cleanup.

* Added Kullback-Leibler version of metric. Changed some warning messages.

* Fixed sign error in KL-divergence calc.

* Removed __PRETTY_FUNCTION__.

* Fixed better name for alternative xentropy parameterization.
Documented details on the objectives / metrics in code comments.

* Common code for label interval checks. Cleanups.

* Use common utility for various weight property checks.

* fix check valid parameters.

* remove non-use name.

* add R's library file to vs project and cmake.

* support using dll built by vs.

* better search for the library file.

* remove mingw related doc .

* update document.

* Let R handle the library compile.

* try fix build from github.

* Update README.md

* cleaner build.

* fix the install problem in linux.

* Update README.md

* check parameters

* refine sklearn verbose logic

* fix segfault

* Warning -> Fatal

* fix segfault

* fix multi-threading.

* fix name style.

* support in CLI version.

* remove warnings.

* Not default parameters.

* fix if...else... .

* fix bug.

* fix warning.

* refine c_api.

* fix R-package.

* fix R's warning.

* fix tests.

* fix pep8 .

* Add early stopping for prediction

* Fix GBDT if-else prediction with early stopping

* Small C++ embelishments to early stopping API and functions

* Fix early stopping efficiency issue by creating a singleton for no early stopping

* Python improvements to early stopping API

* Add assertion check for binary and multiclass prediction score length

* Update vcxproj and vcxproj.filters with new early stopping files

* Remove inline from PredictRaw(), the linker was not able to find it otherwise

* speed up the AUC metric by parallel sort.

* fix unix compile.

* fix template in unix.

* remove warning.

The result of a right-shift of a signed negative number is
implementation-dependent.
cf. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us//library/336xbhcz.aspx

Fix #519
Fix #521

* auto replace gbdt::prediction

* add test if_else_prediction

* not override gbdt_prediction.cpp

* close ifstream

* re-order .travis.yml

* translate model to if-else

* support multiclass and predictleaf

* remove java option for now

* support multi-thread

* add task:convert_model

* change whitespace to underline in feature names

* add test

* fix bug

* fix bug

* warning -> fatal

* Revert "python-package: support valid_names in scikit-learn API (#420)"

This reverts commit de39dbcf.

* Revert "faster histogram sum up (#418)"

This reverts commit 98c7c2a3.

* some refactor.

* two stage sum up to reduce sum up error.

* add more two-stage sumup.

* some refactor.

* add alignment.

* change name to aligned_allocator.

* remove some useless sumup.

* fix a warning.

* add -march=native .

* remove the padding of gradients.

* no alignment.

* fix test.

* change KNumSumupGroup to 32768.

* change gcc flags.

* refine prediction logic.

* fix test.

* fix out_len in training score of Dart.

* improve predict speed for high dimension data.

* try use unordered_map for sparse prediction.

* avoid using unordered_map.

* clean code.

* fix test.

* move predict buffer to Predictor.

* refine prediction logic.

* fix test.

* fix out_len in training score of Dart.

* improve predict speed for high dimension data.