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+* [Story and Lessons Behind the Evolution of XGBoost](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tqchen/2016/03/10/story-and-lessons-behind-the-evolution-of-xgboost.html)
 * [Tutorial: Distributed XGBoost on AWS with YARN](https://xgboost.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial/aws_yarn.html)
 * [XGBoost brick](NEWS.md) Release
 
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 * For reporting bugs please use the [xgboost/issues](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues) page.
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 © Contributors, 2015. Licensed under an [Apache-2](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/LICENSE) license.
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+Reference
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+- Tianqi Chen and Carlos Guestrin. [XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System](data/pdf/XGBoostArxiv.pdf). Arxiv.1603.02754
+- XGBoost originates from research project at University of Washington, see also the [Project Page at UW](http://dmlc.cs.washington.edu/xgboost.html).
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+Acknowledgements
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+- This work was supported in part by ONR (PECASE) N000141010672, NSF IIS 1258741 and the TerraSwarm Research Center sponsored by MARCO and DARPA.