xgboost/demo/README.md

XGBoost Examples

This folder contains the all example codes using xgboost. Contribution of exampls, benchmarks is more than welcomed! If you like to share how you use xgboost to solve your problem, send a pull request:)

Start Examples by Tasks

• Binary classification
• Multiclass classification
• Regression
• Learning to Rank

Features Walkthrough

This is a list of short codes introducing different functionalities of xgboost and its wrapper.

• Basic walkthrough of wrappers. python R
• Cutomize loss function, and evaluation metric. python R
• Boosting from existing prediction. python R
• Predicting using first n trees. python R
• Cross validation(to come)

Benchmarks

• Starter script for Kaggle Higgs Boson