In general I’m looking for technical detail/insight into how XGBoost implements the rank:map
learning objective (maximize mean average precision) in python. For example:
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Does the predict method produce probabilities? Or scores? (as discussed in the "Evaluating XGBoost ranking" topic) In my implementation the predicted scores lie between 0 and 1.
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Also looking for example implementations of hyper-parameter optimization and cross validation for the python implementaton of xgboost pairwise ranking, as these don’t work in an obvious way with the standard
gridsearchCV
sklearn API, for example.