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* add quantized training (first stage)

* add histogram construction functions for integer gradients

* add stochastic rounding

* update docs

* fix compilation errors by adding template instantiations

* update files for compilation

* fix compilation of gpu version

* initialize gradient discretizer before share states

* add a test case for quantized training

* add quantized training for data distributed training

* Delete origin.pred

* Delete ifelse.pred

* Delete LightGBM_model.txt

* remove useless changes

* fix lint error

* remove debug loggings

* fix mismatch of vector and allocator types

* remove changes in main.cpp

* fix bugs with uninitialized gradient discretizer

* initialize ordered gradients in gradient discretizer

* disable quantized training with gpu and cuda

fix msvc compilation errors and warnings

* fix bug in data parallel tree learner

* make quantized training test deterministic

* make quantized training in test case more accurate

* refactor test_quantized_training

* fix leaf splits initialization with quantized training

* check distributed quantized training result

* Add serialization of reference dataset

* lint and missing file

* Fixes from reviewers

* responded to comments

* revert sdk change

* add parameter data_sample_strategy

* abstract GOSS as a sample strategy(GOSS1), togetherwith origial GOSS (Normal Bagging has not been abstracted, so do NOT use it now)

* abstract Bagging as a subclass (BAGGING), but original Bagging members in GBDT are still kept

* fix some variables

* remove GOSS(as boost) and Bagging logic in GBDT

* rename GOSS1 to GOSS(as sample strategy)

* add warning about use GOSS as boosting_type

* a little ; bug

* remove CHECK when "gradients != nullptr"

* rename DataSampleStrategy to avoid confusion

* remove and add some ccomments, followingconvention

* fix bug about GBDT::ResetConfig (ObjectiveFunction inconsistencty bet…

* add std::ignore to avoid compiler warnings (anpotential fails)

* update Makevars and vcxproj

* handle constant hessian

move resize of gradient vectors out of sample strategy

* mark override for IsHessianChange

* fix lint errors

* rerun parameter_generator.py

* update config_auto.cpp

* delete redundant blank line

* update num_data_ when train_data_ is updated

set gradients and hessians when GOSS

* check bagging_freq is not zero

* reset config_ value

merge ResetBaggingConfig and ResetGOSS

* remove useless check

* add ttests in test_engine.py

* remove whitespace in blank line

* remove arguments verbose_eval and evals_result

* Update tests/python_package_test/test_engine.py

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* Update tests/python_package_test/test_engine.py

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* Modify warnning about using goss as boosting type

* Update tests/python_package_test/test_engine.py

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* remove goss from boosting types in documentation

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* rename GOSS with GOSSStrategy

* update doc

* address comments

* fix table in doc

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* update documentation

* update test case

* revert useless change in test_engine.py

* add tests for evaluation results in test_sample_strategy_with_boosting

* include <string>

* change to assert_allclose in test_goss_boosting_and_strategy_equivalent

* more tolerance in result checking, due to minor difference in results of gpu versions

* change == to np.testing.assert_allclose

* fix test case

* set gpu_use_dp to true

* change --report to --report-level for rstcheck

* use gpu_use_dp=true in test_goss_boosting_and_strategy_equivalent

* revert unexpected changes of non-ascii characters

* revert unexpected changes of non-ascii characters

* remove useless changes

* allocate gradients_pointer_ and hessians_pointer when necessary

* add spaces

* remove redundant virtual

* include <LightGBM/utils/log.h> for USE_CUDA

* check for  in test_goss_boosting_and_strategy_equivalent

* check for identity in test_sample_strategy_with_boosting

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* ResetGradientBuffers after ResetSampleConfig

* ResetGradientBuffers after bagging

* remove useless code

* check objective_function_ instead of gradients

* enable rf with goss

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* remove useless changes

* allow rf with feature subsampling alone

* change position of ResetGradientBuffers

* check for dask

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* add default definition for GetColWiseData and GetColWiseData

* fix warnings of template instantiation

* remove files in Makevars and LightGBM.vcxproj

* new cuda framework

* add histogram construction kernel

* before removing multi-gpu

* new cuda framework

* tree learner cuda kernels

* single tree framework ready

* single tree training framework

* remove comments

* boosting with cuda

* optimize for best split find

* data split

* move boosting into cuda

* parallel synchronize best split point

* merge split data kernels

* before code refactor

* use tasks instead of features as units for split finding

* refactor cuda best split finder

* fix configuration error with small leaves in data split

* skip histogram construction of too small leaf

* skip split finding of invalid leaves

stop when no leaf to split

* support row wise with CUDA

* copy data for split by column

* copy data from host to CPU by column for data partition

* add synchronize best splits for one leaf from multiple blocks

* partition dense row data

* fix sync best split from task blocks

* add support for sparse row wise for CUDA

* remove useless code

* add l2 regression objective

* sparse multi value bin enabled for CUDA

* fix cuda ranking objective

* support for number of items <= 2048 per query

* speedup histogram construction by interleaving global memory access

* split optimization

* add cuda tree predictor

* remove comma

* refactor objective and score updater

* before use struct

* use structure for split information

* use structure for leaf splits

* return CUDASplitInfo directly after finding best split

* split with CUDATree directly

* use cuda row data in cuda histogram constructor

* clean src/treelearner/cuda

* gather shared cuda device functions

* put shared CUDA functions into header file

* change smaller leaf from <= back to < for consistent result with CPU

* add tree predictor

* remove useless cuda_tree_predictor

* predict on CUDA with pipeline

* add global sort algorithms

* add global argsort for queries with many items in ranking tasks

* remove limitation of maximum number of items per query in ranking

* add cuda metrics

* fix CUDA AUC

* remove debug code

* add regression metrics

* remove useless file

* don't use mask in shuffle reduce

* add more regression objectives

* fix cuda mape loss

add cuda xentropy loss

* use template for different versions of BitonicArgSortDevice

* add multiclass metrics

* add ndcg metric

* fix cross entropy objectives and metrics

* fix cross entropy and ndcg metrics

* add support for customized objective in CUDA

* complete multiclass ova for CUDA

* separate cuda tree learner

* use shuffle based prefix sum

* clean up cuda_algorithms.hpp

* add copy subset on CUDA

* add bagging for CUDA

* clean up code

* copy gradients from host to device

* support bagging without using subset

* add support of bagging with subset for CUDAColumnData

* add support of bagging with subset for dense CUDARowData

* refactor copy sparse subrow

* use copy subset for column subset

* add reset train data and reset config for CUDA tree learner

add deconstructors for cuda tree learner

* add USE_CUDA ifdef to cuda tree learner files

* check that dataset doesn't contain CUDA tree learner

* remove printf debug information

* use full new cuda tree learner only when using single GPU

* disable all CUDA code when using CPU version

* recover main.cpp

* add cpp files for multi value bins

* update LightGBM.vcxproj

* update LightGBM.vcxproj

fix lint errors

* fix lint errors

* fix lint errors

* update Makevars

fix lint errors

* fix the case with 0 feature and 0 bin

fix split finding for invalid leaves

create cuda column data when loaded from bin file

* fix lint errors

hide GetRowWiseData when cuda is not used

* recover default device type to cpu

* fix na_as_missing case

fix cuda feature meta information

* fix UpdateDataIndexToLeafIndexKernel

* create CUDA trees when needed in CUDADataPartition::UpdateTrainScore

* add refit by tree for cuda tree learner

* fix test_refit in test_engine.py

* create set of large bin partitions in CUDARowData

* add histogram construction for columns with a large number of bins

* add find best split for categorical features on CUDA

* add bitvectors for categorical split

* cuda data partition split for categorical features

* fix split tree with categorical feature

* fix categorical feature splits

* refactor cuda_data_partition.cu with multi-level templates

* refactor CUDABestSplitFinder by grouping task information into struct

* pre-allocate space for vector split_find_tasks_ in CUDABestSplitFinder

* fix misuse of reference

* remove useless changes

* add support for path smoothing

* virtual destructor for LightGBM::Tree

* fix overlapped cat threshold in best split infos

* reset histogram pointers in data partition and spllit finder in ResetConfig

* comment useless parameter

* fix reverse case when na is missing and default bin is zero

* fix mfb_is_na and mfb_is_zero and is_single_feature_column

* remove debug log

* fix cat_l2 when one-hot

fix gradient copy when data subset is used

* switch shared histogram size according to CUDA version

* gpu_use_dp=true when cuda test

* revert modification in config.h

* fix setting of gpu_use_dp=true in .ci/test.sh

* fix linter errors

* fix linter error

remove useless change

* recover main.cpp

* separate cuda_exp and cuda

* fix ci bash scripts

add description for cuda_exp

* add USE_CUDA_EXP flag

* switch off USE_CUDA_EXP

* revert changes in python-packages

* more careful separation for USE_CUDA_EXP

* fix CUDARowData::DivideCUDAFeatureGroups

fix set fields for cuda metadata

* revert config.h

* fix test settings for cuda experimental version

* skip some tests due to unsupported features or differences in implementation details for CUDA Experimental version

* fix lint issue by adding a blank line

* fix lint errors by resorting imports

* fix lint errors by resorting imports

* fix lint errors by resorting imports

* merge cuda.yml and cuda_exp.yml

* update python version in cuda.yml

* remove cuda_exp.yml

* remove unrelated changes

* fix compilation warnings

fix cuda exp ci task name

* recover task

* use multi-level template in histogram construction

check split only in debug mode

* ignore NVCC related lines in parameter_generator.py

* update job name for CUDA tests

* apply review suggestions

* Update .github/workflows/cuda.yml
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* Update .github/workflows/cuda.yml
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* update header

* remove useless TODOs

* remove [TODO(shiyu1994): constrain the split with min_data_in_group] and record in #5062

* #include <LightGBM/utils/log.h> for USE_CUDA_EXP only

* fix include order

* fix include order

* remove extra space

* address review comments

* add warning when cuda_exp is used together with deterministic

* add comment about gpu_use_dp in .ci/test.sh

* revert changing order of included headers
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* move all submodules to external_libs folder

* Update .Rbuildignore

* Update MANIFEST.in

* Update .appveyor.yml

* Update CMakeLists.txt

* Update build_r.R

* Update test.sh

* Update setup.py

* Update CMakeLists.txt

* Update test.sh

* Update setup.py

* Update conf.py

* Update MANIFEST.in

* Update LightGBM.vcxproj

* continue

* test

* test

* Update setup.py

* hotfix

* revert CI tests

* [python-package] remove unused Eigen files (fixes #3684)

* more changes

* add EIGEN_MPL2_ONLY in VS solution file

* fix VS project

* remove EIGEN_MPL2_ONLY define in linear_tree_learner
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* Add Eigen library.

* Working for simple test.

* Apply changes to config params.

* Handle nan data.

* Update docs.

* Add test.

* Only load raw data if boosting=gbdt_linear

* Remove unneeded code.

* Minor updates.

* Update to work with sk-learn interface.

* Update to work with chunked datasets.

* Throw error if we try to create a Booster with an already-constructed dataset having incompatible parameters.

* Save raw data in binary dataset file.

* Update docs and fix parameter checking.

* Fix dataset loading.

* Add test for regularization.

* Fix bugs when saving and loading tree.

* Add test for load/save linear model.

* Remove unneeded code.

* Fix case where not enough leaf data for linear model.

* Simplify code.

* Speed up code.

* Speed up code.

* Simplify code.

* Speed up code.

* Fix bugs.

* Working version.

* Store feature data column-wise (not fully working yet).

* Fix bugs.

* Speed up.

* Speed up.

* Remove unneeded code.

* Small speedup.

* Speed up.

* Minor updates.

* Remove unneeded code.

* Fix bug.

* Fix bug.

* Speed up.

* Speed up.

* Simplify code.

* Remove unneeded code.

* Fix bug, add more tests.

* Fix bug and add test.

* Only store numerical features

* Fix bug and speed up using templates.

* Speed up prediction.

* Fix bug with regularisation

* Visual studio files.

* Working version

* Only check nans if necessary

* Store coeff matrix as an array.

* Align cache lines

* Align cache lines

* Preallocation coefficient calculation matrices

* Small speedups

* Small speedup

* Reverse cache alignment changes

* Change to dynamic schedule

* Update docs.

* Refactor so that linear tree learner is not a separate class.

* Add refit capability.

* Speed up

* Small speedups.

* Speed up add prediction to score.

* Fix bug

* Fix bug and speed up.

* Speed up dataload.

* Speed up dataload

* Use vectors instead of pointers

* Fix bug

* Add OMP exception handling.

* Change return type of LGBM_BoosterGetLinear to bool

* Change return type of LGBM_BoosterGetLinear back to int, only parameter type needed to change

* Remove unused internal_parent_ property of tree

* Remove unused parameter to CreateTreeLearner

* Remove reference to LinearTreeLearner

* Minor style issues

* Remove unneeded check

* Reverse temporary testing change

* Fix Visual Studio project files

* Restore LightGBM.vcxproj.filters

* Speed up

* Speed up

* Simplify code

* Update docs

* Simplify code

* Initialise storage space for max num threads

* Move Eigen to include directory and delete unused files

* Remove old files.

* Fix so it compiles with mingw

* Fix gpu tree learner

* Change AddPredictionToScore back to const

* Fix python lint error

* Fix C++ lint errors

* Change eigen to a submodule

* Update comment

* Add the eigen folder

* Try to fix build issues with eigen

* Remove eigen files

* Add eigen as submodule

* Fix include paths

* Exclude eigen files from Python linter

* Ignore eigen folders for pydocstyle

* Fix C++ linting errors

* Fix docs

* Fix docs

* Exclude eigen directories from doxygen

* Update manifest to include eigen

* Update build_r to include eigen files

* Fix compiler warnings

* Store raw feature data as float

* Use float for calculating linear coefficients

* Remove eigen directory from GLOB

* Don't compile linear model code when building R package

* Fix doxygen issue

* Fix lint issue

* Fix lint issue

* Remove uneeded code

* Restore delected lines

* Restore delected lines

* Change return type of has_raw to bool

* Update docs

* Rename some variables and functions for readability

* Make tree_learner parameter const in AddScore

* Fix style issues

* Pass vectors as const reference when setting tree properties

* Make temporary storage of serial_tree_learner mutable so we can make the object's methods const

* Remove get_raw_size, use num_numeric_features instead

* Fix typo

* Make contains_nan_ and any_nan_ properties immutable again

* Remove data_has_nan_ property of tree

* Remove temporary test code

* Make linear_tree a dataset param

* Fix lint error

* Make LinearTreeLearner a separate class

* Fix lint errors

* Fix lint error

* Add linear_tree_learner.o

* Simulate omp_get_max_threads if openmp is not available

* Update PushOneData to also store raw data.

* Cast size to int

* Fix bug in ReshapeRaw

* Speed up code with multithreading

* Use OMP_NUM_THREADS

* Speed up with multithreading

* Update to use ArrayToString

* Fix tests

* Fix test

* Fix bug introduced in merge

* Minor updates

* Update docs

* store without offset in multi_val_dense_bin

* fix offset bug

* add comment for offset

* add comment for bin type selection

* faster operations for offset

* keep most freq bin in histogram for multi val dense

* use original feature iterators

* consider 9 cases (3 x 3) for multi val bin construction

* fix dense bin setting

* fix bin data in multi val group

* fix offset of the first feature histogram

* use float hist buf

* avx in histogram construction

* use avx for hist construction without prefetch

* vectorize bin extraction

* use only 128 vec

* use avx2

* use vectorization for sparse row wise

* add bit size for multi val dense bin

* float with no vectorization

* change multithreading strategy to dynamic

* remove intrinsic header

* fix dense multi val col copy

* remove bit size

* use large enough block size when the bin number is large

* calc min block size by sparsity

* rescale gradients

* rollback gradients scaling

* single precision histogram buffer as an option

* add float hist buffer with thread buffer

* fix setting zero in hist data

* fix hist begin pointer in tree learners

* remove debug logs

* remove omp simd

* update Makevars of R-package

* fix feature group binary storing

* two row wise for double hist buffer

* add subfeature for two row wise

* remove useless code and fix two row wise

* refactor code

* grouping the dense feature groups can get sparse multi val bin

* clean format problems

* one thread for two blocks in sep row wise

* use ordered gradients for sep row wise

* fix grad ptr

* ordered grad with combined block for sep row wise

* fix block threading

* use the same min block size

* rollback share min block size

* remove logs

* Update src/io/dataset.cpp
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* fix parameter description

* remove sep_row_wise

* remove check codes

* add check for empty multi val bin

* fix lint error

* rollback changes in config.h

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* fix int64 write error

* attempt

* [WIP] [ci] [R-package] Add CI job that runs valgrind tests

* update all-successful

* install

* executable

* fix redirect stuff

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* more flags

* add mc to msvc proj

* fix memory leak in mc

* Update monotone_constraints.hpp

* Update r_package.yml

* remove R_INT64_PTR

* disable openmp

* Update gbdt_model_text.cpp

* Update gbdt_model_text.cpp

* Apply suggestions from code review

* try to free vector

* free more memories.

* Update src/boosting/gbdt_model_text.cpp

* fix using

* try the UNPROTECT(1);

* fix a const pointer

* fix Common

* reduce UNPROTECT

* remove UNPROTECT(1);

* fix null handle

* fix predictor

* use NULL after free

* fix a leaking in test

* try more fixes

* test the effect of tests

* throw exception in Fatal

* add test back

* Apply suggestions from code review

* commet some tests

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Apply suggestions from code review

* trying to comment out tests

* Update openmp_wrapper.h

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Update configure

* Update configure.ac

* trying to uncomment

* more comments

* more uncommenting

* more uncommenting

* fix comment

* more uncommenting

* uncomment fully-commented out stuff

* try uncommenting more dataset tests

* uncommenting more tests

* ok getting closer

* more uncommenting

* free dataset

* skipping a test, more uncommenting

* more skipping

* re-enable OpenMP

* allow on OpenMP thing

* move valgrind to comment-only job

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* changes from code review

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* linting

* issue comments too

* remove issue_comment
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* Add capability to get possible max and min values for a model

* Change implementation to have return value in tree.cpp, change naming to upper and lower bound, move implementation to gdbt.cpp

* Update include/LightGBM/c_api.h
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* Change iteration to avoid potential overflow, add bindings to R and Python and a basic test

* Adjust test values

* Consider const correctness and multithreading protection

* Put everything possible as const

* Include shared_mutex, for now as unique_lock

* Update test values

* Put everything possible as const

* Include shared_mutex, for now as unique_lock

* Make PredictSingleRow const and share the lock with other reading threads

* Update test values

* Add test to check that model is exactly the same in all platforms

* Try to parse the model to get the expected values

* Try to parse the model to get the expected values

* Fix implementation, num_leaves can be lower than the leaf_value_ size

* Do not check for num_leaves to be smaller than actual size and get back to test with hardcoded value

* Change test order

* Add gpu_use_dp option in test

* Remove helper test method

* Remove TODO

* Add preprocessing option to compile with c++17

* Update python-package/setup.py
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* Remove unwanted changes

* Move option

* Fix problems introduced by conflict fix

* Avoid switching to c++17 and use yamc mutex library to access shared lock functionality

* Add extra yamc include

* Change header order

* some lint fix

* change include order and remove some extra blank lines

* Further fix lint issues

* Update c_api.cpp

* Further fix lint issues

* Move yamc include files to a new yamc folder

* Use standard unique_lock

* Update windows/LightGBM.vcxproj
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* Update windows/LightGBM.vcxproj.filters
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* Update windows/LightGBM.vcxproj.filters
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* Update windows/LightGBM.vcxproj.filters
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* Fix problems coming from merge conflict resolution
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* Update LightGBM.vcxproj

* Update LightGBM.vcxproj.filters

* commit

* fix msvc

* fix format

* speed up for const hessian

* rename template

* some refactorings

* refine

* refine

* simplify codes

* fix random in feature histogram

* code refine

* refine

* try fix

* make gcc happy

* remove timer

* rollback some changes

* more templates

* fix a bug

* reduce the cost of timer

* fix gpu

* fix bug

* fix gpu

* add debug mode in camke

* add debug dll

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* fix naming

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Update LightGBM.sln

* refine

* run MPI job in debug mode

* document USE_DEBUG and USE_TIMETAG
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* code refactoring

* update vcproject

* refine

* fix test

* Update tests/python_package_test/test_sklearn.py

* fix test

* add Link Time Code Generation

* remove ltcg

* Apply suggestions from code review

* commit

* fix a bug

* fix bug

* reset to track changes

* refine the auto choose logic

* sort the time stats output

* fix include

* change  multi_val_bin_sparse_threshold

* add cmake

* add _mm_malloc and _mm_free for cross platform

* fix cmake bug

* timer for split

* try to fix cmake

* fix tests

* refactor DataPartition::Split

* fix test

* typo

* formating

* Revert "formating"

This reverts commit 5b8de4f7fb9d975ee23701d276a66d40ee6d4222.

* add document

* [R-package] Added tests on use of force_col_wise and force_row_wise in training (#2719)

* naming

* fix gpu code

* Update include/LightGBM/bin.h
Co-Authored-By: James Lamb <jaylamb20@gmail.com>

* Update src/treelearner/ocl/histogram16.cl

* test: swap compilers for CI

* fix omp

* not avx2

* no aligned for feature histogram

* Revert "refactor DataPartition::Split"

This reverts commit 256e6d9641ade966a1f54da1752e998a1149b6f8.

* slightly refactor data partition

* reduce the memory cost
Co-authored-by: James Lamb <jaylamb20@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>

* 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

* refactoring

* fix style

* fix style

* Update cost_effective_gradient_boosting.hpp

* Update serial_tree_learner.cpp

* Update serial_tree_learner.h

* fix style

* update vc project

* Update cost_effective_gradient_boosting.hpp

* fix travis badge

* updated GitHub Microsoft URL

* [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.

* [optional] support protobuf

* fix windows/LightGBM.vcxproj

* add doc

* fix doc

* fix vs support (#2)

* fix vs support

* fix cmake

This reverts commit 53b99854.

* 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

* 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