xgboost/README.md

xgboost: eXtreme Gradient Boosting

An efficient general purpose gradient boosting (tree) library.

Creater: Tianqi Chen

Documentation: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/wiki

Features

• 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

• Gradient boosting models:
  • regression tree (GBRT)
  • linear model/lasso
• Objectives to support tasks:
  • regression
  • classification
  • ranking
  • matrix factorization
  • structured prediction (3) OpenMP implementation

File extension convention: (1) .h are interface, utils and data structures, with detailed comment; (2) .cpp are implementations that will be compiled, with less comment; (3) .hpp are implementations that will be included by .cpp, with less comment