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* [ci] [Dask] enable Dask tests on macOS

* fix windows condition

* fix merge conflicts

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[python-package] do not copy column-major numpy arrays when creating Dataset from list of arrays (#6773)
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* 1) Fixed Predictor lifecycle
2) Fixed Boosting trees initialization

#5482

* Added tests for LGBM_BoosterPredictForMat in Contrib mode

* #6778 Reverted indentation to 4 spaces

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* do not copy column-major numpy arrays when creating Dataset

* fix logic

* lint

* code review

* update test

* move dataset test to basic

* increase features

* assert single layout

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[python-package] adapt to scikit-learn 1.6 testing changes, pin more packages in R 3.6 CI jobs (#6718)

[python-package] remove support for passing 'feature_name' and 'categorical_feature' through train() and cv() (#6706)

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[python-package] require `scikit-learn>=0.24.2`, make scikit-learn estimators compatible with `scikit-learn>=1.6.0dev` (#6651)
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* add bagging by query for lambdarank

* fix pre-commit

* fix bagging by query with cuda

* fix bagging by query test case

* fix bagging by query test case

* fix bagging by query test case

* add #include <vector>

* Update include/LightGBM/objective_function.h
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* Update tests/python_package_test/test_engine.py
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* Update tests/python_package_test/test_engine.py
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[ci] prevent `train.binary.bin` and `lgb_train_data.bin` files being left behind after testing (#6606)
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[python-package] Correctly recognize LGBMClassifier(num_class=2, objective="multiclass") as multiclass classification (#6524)

[python-package] respect 'verbose' setting when using custom objective function (fixes #6014) (#6428)

[python-package] Add `feature_names_in_` attribute for scikit-learn estimators (fixes #6279) (#6310)

[python-package] Add support for NumPy 2.0, test against nightly versions of dependencies (fixes #6454) (#6467)

[python-package] remove uses of deprecated NumPy random number generation APIs, require 'numpy>=1.17.0' (#6468)

* [python-package] Allow to pass early stopping min delta in params

* Fix test

* Add separate test

* Fix

* Add to cpp config

* Adjust test

* Adjust test

* Debug

* Revert

* Apply suggestions from code review

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[ci] Skip Arrow tests on AppVeyor, use Intel macOS runners, upgrade to XCode 14.3 on macOS jobs, disable MacOS MPI jobs (#6425)