xgboost CPP接口 实例

​​hw.c​​的内容：

#include <iostream>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <xgboost/c_api.h>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
cout << "Hello World!" << endl;


    // create the train data
int cols=3,rows=5;
float train[rows][cols];
for (int i=0;i<rows;i++)
    for (int j=0;j<cols;j++)
        train[i][j] = (i+1) * (j+1);

float train_labels[rows];
for (int i=0;i<rows;i++)
    train_labels[i] = 1+i*i*i;


// convert to DMatrix
DMatrixHandle h_train[1];
XGDMatrixCreateFromMat((float *) train, rows, cols, -1, &h_train[0]);

// load the labels
XGDMatrixSetFloatInfo(h_train[0], "label", train_labels, rows);

// read back the labels, just a sanity check
bst_ulong bst_result;
const float *out_floats;
XGDMatrixGetFloatInfo(h_train[0], "label" , &bst_result, &out_floats);
for (unsigned int i=0;i<bst_result;i++)
    std::cout << "label[" << i << "]=" << out_floats[i] << std::endl;

// create the booster and load some parameters
BoosterHandle h_booster;
XGBoosterCreate(h_train, 1, &h_booster);
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "booster", "gbtree");
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "objective", "reg:linear");
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "max_depth", "5");
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "eta", "0.1");
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "min_child_weight", "1");
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "subsample", "0.5");
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "colsample_bytree", "1");
XGBoosterSetParam(h_booster, "num_parallel_tree", "1");

// perform 200 learning iterations
for (int iter=0; iter<200; iter++)
    XGBoosterUpdateOneIter(h_booster, iter, h_train[0]);

// predict
const int sample_rows = 5;
float test[sample_rows][cols];
for (int i=0;i<sample_rows;i++)
    for (int j=0;j<cols;j++)
        test[i][j] = (i+1) * (j+1);
DMatrixHandle h_test;
XGDMatrixCreateFromMat((float *) test, sample_rows, cols, -1, &h_test);
bst_ulong out_len;
const float *f;
XGBoosterPredict(h_booster, h_test, 0,0,&out_len,&f);

for (unsigned int i=0;i<out_len;i++)
    std::cout << "prediction[" << i << "]=" << f[i] << std::endl;


// free xgboost internal structures
XGDMatrixFree(h_train[0]);
XGDMatrixFree(h_test);
XGBoosterFree(h_booster);

return 0;
}

下载并编译xgboost本身，放到和​​hw.c​​一个目录：

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

编译指令：​​g++ hw.c -Ixgboost/include -Ixgboost/rabit/include xgboost/lib/libxgboost.a xgboost/rabit/lib/librabit.a xgboost/dmlc-core/libdmlc.a -fopenmp​​