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* updated pep8 to pycodestyle

* fixed E722 do not use bare 'except'

* fixed W605 invalid escape sequence '\*'

* fixed W504 line break after binary operator

* ignore W605 invalid escape sequence '\*' in nuget builder

* made pycodestyle happy

* Read and write datsets from hdfs.
* Only enabled when cmake is run with -DUSE_HDFS:BOOL=TRUE
* Introduces VirtualFile(Reader|Writer) to asbtract VFS differences

* fix early stopping edge case

* fix message.

* fix tests

* fix GPU tests.

* remove protobuf

* add version number

* remove pmml script

* use float for split gain

* fix warnings

* refine the read model logic of gbdt

* fix compile error

* improve decode speed

* fix some bugs

* fix double accuracy problem

* fix bug

* multi-thread save model

* speed up save model to string

* parallel save/load model

* fix some warnings.

* fix warnings.

* fix a bug

* remove debug output

* fix doc

* fix max_bin warning in tests.

* fix max_bin warning

* fix pylint

* clean code for stringToArray

* clean code for TToString

* remove max_bin

* replace "class" with typename

* add init_score & test cpp and python result consistency

* try fix common.h

* Fix tests (#3)

* update atof

* fix bug

* fix tests.

* fix bug

* fix dtypes

* fix categorical feature override

* fix protobuf on vs build (#1004)

* [optional] support protobuf

* fix windows/LightGBM.vcxproj

* add doc

* fix doc

* fix vs support (#2)

* fix vs support

* fix cmake

* fix #1012

* [python] add network config api  (#1019)

* add network

* update doc

* add float tolerance in bin finder.

* fix a bug

* update tests

* add double torelance on tree model

* fix tests

* simplify the double comparison

* fix lightsvm zero base

* move double tolerance to the bin finder.

* fix pylint

* clean test.sh

* add sklearn test

* remove underline

* clean codes

* set random_state=None

* add last line

* fix doc

* rename file

* try fix test

* Update test_engine.py

* Update test_engine.py

commit c9e123f24fcbb159c04e6694c7f830530bb2f27e
Author: Guolin Ke <i@yumumu.me>
Date:   Wed Oct 18 10:00:19 2017 +0800

    change default max_cat_to_onehot

commit 805a5c3125b9979d634922e1708877fa0fec80c6
Author: Guolin Ke <i@yumumu.me>
Date:   Tue Oct 17 22:57:18 2017 +0800

    use one hot coding for the small cats

* many fixes for categorical feature

* add l2 to categorcial split.

* remove useless file

* update version

* add cat_l2

* update appveyor verison

* remove file

* fix tests.

* change default cat_l2 value

* fix a bug in bin finder

* change default cat_smooth_ratio

* refine categorical split

* a bug fix

* fix a bug

* refine categorical split

* add test

* added test for sklearn handle categorical features

* use raw X, y in sklearn wrapper in case of pandas.DataFrame

* fixed probs

* Fix feature attributions for regression models and add Python bindings

* Address pylint issue

* Lazy fix missing tree depth info

* disabled logs from compilers; fixed #874

* fixed safe clear_fplder

* added windows folder to manifest.in

* added windows folder to build

* added library path

* added compilation with MSBuild from .sln-file

* fixed unknown PlatformToolset returns exitcode 0

* hotfix

* updated Readme

* removed return

* added installation with mingw test to appveyor

* let's test appveyor with both VS 2015 and VS 2017; but MinGW isn't installed on VS 2017 image

* fixed built-in name 'file'

* simplified appveyor

* removed excess data_files

* fixed unreadable paths

* separated exceptions for cmake and mingw

* refactored silent_call

* don't create artifacts with VS 2015 and mingw

* be more precise with python versioning in Travis

* removed unnecessary if statement

* added classifiers for PyPI and python versions badge

* changed python version in travis

* added support of scikit-learn 0.18.x

* added more python versions to Travis

* added more python versions to Appveyor

* reduced number of tests in Travis

* Travis trick is not needed anymore

* attempt to fix according to https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/pull/880#discussion_r137438856

* fixed sklearn test on python 2.7

* commit to show that problem has been solved

* come back to python 3.6

* removed warnings check

* improved sklearn interface; added sklearns' tests

* moved best_score into the if statement

* improved docstrings; simplified LGBMCheckConsistentLength

* fixed typo

* pylint

* updated example

* fixed Ranker interface

* added missed boosting_type

* fixed more comfortable autocomplete without unused objects

* removed check for None of eval_at

* fixed according to review

* fixed typo

* added description of fit return type

* dictionary->dict for short

* markdown cleanup

* expose feature importance to c_api

* support type=gain

* remove dump model from examples and tests temporarily because it's unstable

* use double instead of float

* updated scikit-learn interface

* fixed better description

* updated set_params()

* removed backward compatibility

* removed excess lines

* replaced pop with setdefault

* added deprecated warnings

* added tests

* check params

* add test case

* fix pylint

* added test for training when both train and valid are subsets of a single lgb.Dataset object

* pep8 changes

* more pep8

* added test involving subsets of subsets of lgb.Dataset objects

* minor fix to contruction of X matrix

* even more pep8

* simplified test further

* finish the data loading part

* allow prediction.

* fix bug for decision type.

* finish split finding part

* fix bugs.

* bug fixed. add a test .

* fix pep8 .

* update documents.

* fix test bugs.

* fix a format

* fix import error in python test.

* disable missing handle in categorial features.

* fix a bug.

* add more tests.

* fix pep8

* fix bugs.

* remove the missing handle code for categorical feature.

* add draft of RF.

* fix score bugs.

* fix scores.

* fix tests.

* update document

* fix GetPredictAt

* 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

https://docs.pytest.org/

* make test fail

* change default best_iteration to 0

* fix test

* change data_splitter to folds in cv

* update docs

* change whitespace to underline in feature names

* add test

* fix bug

* fix bug

* warning -> fatal

* RMSE (L2) -> MSE (true L2)

* Remove sqrt unneeded reference

* Square L2 test (RMSE to MSE)

* No square root on test

* Attempt to add RMSE

* add dummy gpu solver code

* initial GPU code

* fix crash bug

* first working version

* use asynchronous copy

* use a better kernel for root

* parallel read histogram

* sparse features now works, but no acceleration, compute on CPU

* compute sparse feature on CPU simultaneously

* fix big bug; add gpu selection; add kernel selection

* better debugging

* clean up

* add feature scatter

* Add sparse_threshold control

* fix a bug in feature scatter

* clean up debug

* temporarily add OpenCL kernels for k=64,256

* fix up CMakeList and definition USE_GPU

* add OpenCL kernels as string literals

* Add boost.compute as a submodule

* add boost dependency into CMakeList

* fix opencl pragma

* use pinned memory for histogram

* use pinned buffer for gradients and hessians

* better debugging message

* add double precision support on GPU

* fix boost version in CMakeList

* Add a README

* reconstruct GPU initialization code for ResetTrainingData

* move data to GPU in parallel

* fix a bug during feature copy

* update gpu kernels

* update gpu code

* initial port to LightGBM v2

* speedup GPU data loading process

* Add 4-bit bin support to GPU

* re-add sparse_threshold parameter

* remove kMaxNumWorkgroups and allows an unlimited number of features

* add feature mask support for skipping unused features

* enable kernel cache

* use GPU kernels withoug feature masks when all features are used

* REAdme.

* REAdme.

* update README

* fix typos (#349)

* change compile to gcc on Apple as default

* clean vscode related file

* refine api of constructing from sampling data.

* fix bug in the last commit.

* more efficient algorithm to sample k from n.

* fix bug in filter bin

* change to boost from average output.

* fix tests.

* only stop training when all classes are finshed in multi-class.

* limit the max tree output. change hessian in multi-class objective.

* robust tree model loading.

* fix test.

* convert the probabilities to raw score in boost_from_average of classification.

* fix the average label for binary classification.

* Add boost_from_average to docs (#354)

* don't use "ConvertToRawScore" for self-defined objective function.

* boost_from_average seems doesn't work well in binary classification. remove it.

* For a better jump link (#355)

* Update Python-API.md

* for a better jump in page

A space is needed between `#` and the headers content according to Github's markdown format [guideline](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/)

After adding the spaces, we can jump to the exact position in page by click the link.

* fixed something mentioned by @wxchan

* Update Python-API.md

* add FitByExistingTree.

* adapt GPU tree learner for FitByExistingTree

* avoid NaN output.

* update boost.compute

* fix typos (#361)

* fix broken links (#359)

* update README

* disable GPU acceleration by default

* fix image url

* cleanup debug macro

* remove old README

* do not save sparse_threshold_ in FeatureGroup

* add details for new GPU settings

* ignore submodule when doing pep8 check

* allocate workspace for at least one thread during builing Feature4

* move sparse_threshold to class Dataset

* remove duplicated code in GPUTreeLearner::Split

* Remove duplicated code in FindBestThresholds and BeforeFindBestSplit

* do not rebuild ordered gradients and hessians for sparse features

* support feature groups in GPUTreeLearner

* Initial parallel learners with GPU support

* add option device, cleanup code

* clean up FindBestThresholds; add some omp parallel

* constant hessian optimization for GPU

* Fix GPUTreeLearner crash when there is zero feature

* use np.testing.assert_almost_equal() to compare lists of floats in tests

* travis for GPU

* Python: Fix RandomState issue #376

* Add test case for Python's Shuffle=True