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-xgboost
-
-eXtreme Gradient Boosting Library 
+xgboost: eXtreme Gradient Boosting 
 =======
+An efficient general purpose gradient boosting (tree) library.
+
 Creater: Tianqi Chen
+ 
+Documentation: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/wiki
+ 
 
 Features
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 (2) .cpp are implementations that will be compiled, with less comment; 
 (3) .hpp are implementations that will be included by .cpp, with less comment
 
-See also: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/wiki