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-xgboost
+xgboost: A Gradient Boosting Library
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 Creater: Tianqi Chen: tianqi.tchen AT gmail
 
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 Goal: A stand-alone efficient library to do learning via boosting in functional space
 
 Features:
-(1) Sparse feature format, handling of missing features. This allows efficient categorical feature encoding as indicators. The speed of booster only depends on number of existing features.
-(2) Layout of gradient boosting algorithm to support generic tasks, see project wiki.
+* Sparse feature format, handling of missing features. This allows efficient categorical feature encoding as indicators. The speed of booster only depends on number of existing features.
+* Layout of gradient boosting algorithm to support generic tasks, see project wiki.
 
 
 Planned key components:
 
-(1) Gradient boosting models: 
+* Gradient boosting models: 
     - regression tree (GBRT)
     - linear model/lasso
-(2) Objectives to support tasks: 
+* Objectives to support tasks: 
     - regression
     - classification
     - ranking