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XGBoost has been developed and used by a group of active community members. Your help is very valuable to make the package better for everyone.
Checkout the [Community Page](https://xgboost.ai/community)
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-This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.
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Reference
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- Tianqi Chen and Carlos Guestrin. [XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System](http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02754). In 22nd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2016
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### Sponsors
[[Become a sponsor](https://opencollective.com/xgboost#sponsor)]
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## Other sponsors
The sponsors in this list are donating cloud hours in lieu of cash donation.
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