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Monotonic constraints for autogluon-tabular

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#572 opened on Jul 20, 2020

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I would find it very useful if autogluon-tabular could add partial support for monotonic constraints. I would be happy to write a PR if that has interest?

Of the underlying models used only Lightgbm and Catboost support monotonic constraints but we could add a warning that the constraints will only be respected by these two models. Monotonic constraints can help in ability to generalize and are often very helpful in establishing user trust.

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Study LightGBM and CatBoost APIs for monotonic constraints, then add support with warnings for unsupported models.
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