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* Implementation of XE_NDCG loss function for ranking.

* Add citation

* Check in example usage for xe_ndcg loss.

* Seed the generator when a seed is provided in the config. Add unit-tests for xe_ndcg

* Update documentation

* Fix indentation

* Address issues raised by reviewers.

* Clean up include statements.

* Fix issues raised by reviewers.

* Regenerate parameters.rst

* Add a note to explain that reproducing xe_ndcg results requires num_threads to be one.

* Introduce objective_seed and use that in rank_xendcg instead of directly using seed

* Change default value of objective_seed

* Update test.py

* Update test_consistency.py

* Update test_basic.py

* Update test_sklearn.py

* Update test_sklearn.py

* Update test_engine.py

* more replacements

* added ability to pass first_metric_only in params

* simplified tests

* fixed test

* fixed punctuation

* 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

* 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