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[doc] Brief note about expectile margin output. (#12243)
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.. versionadded:: 3.3.0
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.. note:: Multiple alphas must be sorted in ascending order. Unlike the quantile objective, expectile does not suffer from curve crossing.
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Multiple alphas must be sorted in ascending order. Unlike the quantile objective, expectile does not suffer from curve crossing.
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When predicting with ``output_margin=True`` and multiple alphas, the first margin corresponds to the smallest alpha; subsequent margins are reparameterized gaps between consecutive expectile predictions, use normal prediction to obtain the actual expectile values.
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Parameter for using AFT Survival Loss (``survival:aft``) and Negative Log Likelihood of AFT metric (``aft-nloglik``)
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