From 42bf52f46289300aa15595631f41d049ccca24cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tqchen Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 23:42:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 0.4 --- CHANGES.md | 2 +- README.md | 18 ++++-------------- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index 6a4fabe9f..90fd77ebb 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ xgboost-0.3 * Add [Code Guide](src/README.md) for customizing objective function and evaluation * Add R module -in progress 0.4 +xgboost-0.4 ===== * Distributed version of xgboost that runs on YARN, scales to billions of examples * Direct save/load data and model from/to S3 and HDFS diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 333bd4fa7..d6517c354 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,18 +22,10 @@ Highlights of Usecases: [Highlight Links](doc/README.md#highlight-links) What's New ========== +* XGBoost-0.4 release, see [CHANGES.md](CHANGES.md) * XGBoost wins [WWW2015 Microsoft Malware Classification Challenge (BIG 2015)](http://www.kaggle.com/c/malware-classification/forums/t/13490/say-no-to-overfitting-approaches-sharing) - Checkout the winning solution at [Highlight links](doc/README.md#highlight-links) * [External Memory Version](doc/external_memory.md) -* XGBoost now support HDFS and S3 -* [Distributed XGBoost now runs on YARN](https://github.com/dmlc/wormhole/tree/master/learn/xgboost) -* [xgboost user group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xgboost-user/) for tracking changes, sharing your experience on xgboost -* New features in the lastest changes :) - - Distributed version that scale xgboost to even larger problems with cluster - - Feature importance visualization in R module, thanks to Michael Benesty - - Predict leaf index, see [demo/guide-python/predict_leaf_indices.py](demo/guide-python/predict_leaf_indices.py) -* XGBoost wins [Tradeshift Text Classification](https://kaggle2.blob.core.windows.net/forum-message-attachments/60041/1813/TradeshiftTextClassification.pdf?sv=2012-02-12&se=2015-01-02T13%3A55%3A16Z&sr=b&sp=r&sig=5MHvyjCLESLexYcvbSRFumGQXCS7MVmfdBIY3y01tMk%3D) -* XGBoost wins [HEP meets ML Award in Higgs Boson Challenge](http://atlas.ch/news/2014/machine-learning-wins-the-higgs-challenge.html) Features ======== @@ -55,11 +47,9 @@ Build Version ======= -* This version xgboost-0.3, the code has been refactored from 0.2x to be cleaner and more flexibility -* This version of xgboost is not compatible with 0.2x, due to huge amount of changes in code structure - - This means the model and buffer file of previous version can not be loaded in xgboost-3.0 -* For legacy 0.2x code, refer to [Here](https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/releases/tag/v0.22) -* Change log in [CHANGES.md](CHANGES.md) +* Current version xgboost-0.4, a lot improvment has been made since 0.3 + - Change log in [CHANGES.md](CHANGES.md) + - This version is compatible with 0.3x versions XGBoost in Graphlab Create ==========================