From 5c09686c787da415da7c417c6d54ac7f4ab6d782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tqchen Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:22:50 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c79b62585..32ceb2706 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -xgboost +xgboost: A Gradient Boosting Library ======= Creater: Tianqi Chen: tianqi.tchen AT gmail @@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ General Purpose Gradient Boosting Library 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