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+@inproceedings{Chen:2016:XST:2939672.2939785,
+ author = {Chen, Tianqi and Guestrin, Carlos},
+ title = {{XGBoost}: A Scalable Tree Boosting System},
+ booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
+ series = {KDD '16},
+ year = {2016},
+ isbn = {978-1-4503-4232-2},
+ location = {San Francisco, California, USA},
+ pages = {785--794},
+ numpages = {10},
+ url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2939672.2939785},
+ doi = {10.1145/2939672.2939785},
+ acmid = {2939785},
+ publisher = {ACM},
+ address = {New York, NY, USA},
+ keywords = {large-scale machine learning},
+}
+