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:)

Features Walkthrough

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

• Basic walkthrough of wrappers python R Julia
• Cutomize loss function, and evaluation metric python R Julia
• Boosting from existing prediction python R Julia
• Predicting using first n trees python R Julia
• Generalized Linear Model python R Julia
• Cross validation python R Julia

Basic Examples by Tasks

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

Benchmarks

• Starter script for Kaggle Higgs Boson