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* bring consistency and clearness into early_stopping_rounds desc, metric desc and implementation

* hotfix

* hotfix

* used NDCG as default metric for lambdarank task

* fixed missed methods at ReadTheDocs and changed default eval_metric

* leaved only unique metrics

* fixed comment

* [WIP] refine config

* [wip] ready for the auto code generate

* auto generate config codes

* use with to open file

* fix bug

* fix pylint

* fix bug

* fix pylint

* fix bugs.

* tmp for failed test.

* fix tests.

* added nthreads alias

* added new aliases from new config.h

* fixed duplicated alias

* refactored parameter_generator.py

* added new aliases from config.h and removed remaining old names

* fix bugs & some miss alias

* added aliases

* add more descriptions.

* add comment.

* fix the name of custom objective function

* fix multi-class alias

* Update GPU-Windows.rst

* added new aliases for regression_l2 to docs

* fixed new line

* fixed tweedie_variance_power description

* moved gamma and tweedie metrics to other regression metrics

* added new aliases for l2 to docs

* added new alias for l1 to docs

* added new alias for log loss to docs

* added new aliases for multiclass to docs

* added description for default value of metric param

* fixed link to poisson regression and capitalized regressions' names

* removed unused earlier alias type for gamma deviance

* added aliases for multiclass and multiclass_ova

* updated Quick-Start.rst according to Parameters.rst

* add quantile metric.

* first draft.

* add "sqrt" transform in regression objective function.

* fix a bug.

* update parameter doc

* fix doc

* 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.

* many refactors.

* remove multi_loglossova.

* fix tests.

* avoid using lambda function.

* fix some format.

* reduce branching.

* Support Poisson regression

Close #233

* update docs

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/zhang/INRIA/Publis/Tutorial-Estim/node24.html

* fix typo

* fix hessians to approximate hessians with Gaussian function

* fix ApproximateHessianWithGaussian

* take fabs of gradient

* use atan(1) to calculate pi

* fix pi

* Add L1 objective function

* fix hessians

* update

* Add Huber loss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huber_loss

* update

* update docs/Parameters.md

* update

Support multiclass classification (#53)