From 08604d35fc190d29450a3595c9e6786038631402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tqchen Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 13:00:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 32af4bd1d..bcc5fb7c9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ General Purpose Gradient Boosting Library Goal: A stand-alone efficient library to do learning via boosting in functional space +Existing interesting features: +(1) Sparse feature format, handling of missing features. This allows efficient categorical feature encoding as indicators. The speed of booster only depens on number of existing features. +(2) Layout of gradient boosting algorithm to support generic tasks, see project wiki. + + Planned key components: (1) Gradient boosting models: