catboost/catboost v0.7.2

Release 0.7.2

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Major Features And Improvements

• GPU: New DocParallel mode for tasks without categorical features and with —max-ctr-complextiy 1. Provides best performance for pool with big number of documents.
• GPU: Distributed training on several GPU host via MPI. See instruction how to build binary here.
• GPU: Up to 30% learning speed-up for Maxwell and later GPUs with binarization level > 32

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Hotfixes for GPU version of python wrapper.