Story and Lessons Behind the Evolution of XGBoost

1 · Tianqi Chen · March 10, 2016, 3:05 p.m.
Introduction I like large-scale machine learning and love to build scalable learning systems. XGBoost is one such project that we created. It is the package you want to use to solve your data-science problems. I might be a bit exaggerate, however, XGBoost indeed has been used by a series of kaggle winning solutions as well as KDDCup winners. It is fast and optimized for out-of-core computations. You can use it for you data science problems, as well as putting it as a part of production pipeline....