Introduction
Explore the basics of XGBoost, a high-performance library for gradient boosted decision trees. Understand how it improves on traditional decision trees with faster training and better accuracy for classification and regression tasks.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
In this chapter, you’ll learn about XGBoost, a library for highly efficient gradient boosted decision trees. It is one of the premier libraries used in data science for classification and regression.
A. XGBoost vs. scikit-learn
In the previous three chapters, we used scikit-learn for a variety ...