Guide for Kaggle Higgs Challenge
This is the folder giving example of how to use XGBoost Python Module to run Kaggle Higgs competition
This script will achieve about 3.600 AMS score in public leadboard. To get start, you need do following step:
- Compile the XGBoost python lib
cd ../..
make
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Put training.csv test.csv on folder './data' (you can create a symbolic link)
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Run ./run.sh
Speed
speedtest.py compares xgboost's speed on this dataset with sklearn.GBM
Using R module
- Alternatively, you can run using R, higgs-train.R and higgs-pred.R