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 xgboost: eXtreme Gradient Boosting 
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-An optimized general purpose gradient boosting (tree) library.
+An optimized general purpose gradient boosting library. It implements machine learning algorithm under gradient boosting framework, including both linear model and gradient boosted regression tree(GBRT).
 
 Contributors: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/graphs/contributors