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 An optimized general purpose gradient boosting library. The library is parallelized, and also provides an optimized distributed version.
-It implements machine learning algorithm under gradient boosting framework, including generalized linear model and gradient boosted regression tree (GBDT). XGBoost can also also distributed and scale to Terascale data
+It implements machine learning algorithm under gradient boosting framework, including generalized linear model and gradient boosted regression tree (GBDT). XGBoost can also be distributed and scale to Terascale data
 
 Contributors: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/graphs/contributors