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xgboost: A Gradient Boosting Library
xgboost: eXtreme Gradient Boosting Library
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Creater: Tianqi Chen: tianqi.tchen AT gmail
Creater: Tianqi Chen
General Purpose Gradient Boosting Library
Goal: A stand-alone efficient library to do learning via boosting in functional space
Features:
* 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.
Features
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* Sparse feature format:
- Sparse feature format allows easy handling of missing values, and improve computation efficiency.
* Push the limit on single machine:
- Efficient implementation that optimizes memory and computation.
* Layout of gradient boosting algorithm to support generic tasks, see project wiki.
Planned key components:
Planned key components
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* Gradient boosting models:
- regression tree (GBRT)
- linear model/lasso
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- ranking
- matrix factorization
- structured prediction
(3) OpenMP implementation(optional)
(3) OpenMP implementation
File extension convention:
(1) .h are interface, utils and data structures, with detailed comment;