DecisionTree splits on continuous features by choosing an array of values from a subsample of the data.
Currently, it does not check for identical values in the subsample, so it could end up having multiple copies of the same split. In this PR, we choose splits for a continuous feature in 3 steps:
1. Sort sample values for this feature
2. Get number of occurrence of each distinct value
3. Iterate the value count array computed in step 2 to choose splits.
After find splits, `numSplits` and `numBins` in metadata will be updated.
CC: mengxr manishamde jkbradley, please help me review this, thanks.
Author: Qiping Li <liqiping1991@gmail.com>
Author: chouqin <liqiping1991@gmail.com>
Author: liqi <liqiping1991@gmail.com>
Author: qiping.lqp <qiping.lqp@alibaba-inc.com>
Closes#2780 from chouqin/dt-findsplits and squashes the following commits:
18d0301 [Qiping Li] check explicitly findsplits return distinct splits
8dc28ab [chouqin] remove blank lines
ffc920f [chouqin] adjust code based on comments and add more test cases
9857039 [chouqin] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark into dt-findsplits
d353596 [qiping.lqp] fix pyspark doc test
9e64699 [Qiping Li] fix random forest unit test
3c72913 [Qiping Li] fix random forest unit test
092efcb [Qiping Li] fix bug
f69f47f [Qiping Li] fix bug
ab303a4 [Qiping Li] fix bug
af6dc97 [Qiping Li] fix bug
2a8267a [Qiping Li] fix bug
c339a61 [Qiping Li] fix bug
369f812 [Qiping Li] fix style
8f46af6 [Qiping Li] add comments and unit test
9e7138e [Qiping Li] Merge branch 'dt-findsplits' of https://github.com/chouqin/spark into dt-findsplits
1b25a35 [Qiping Li] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/apache/spark into dt-findsplits
0cd744a [liqi] fix bug
3652823 [Qiping Li] fix bug
af7cb79 [Qiping Li] Choose splits for continuous features in DecisionTree more adaptively
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