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771: Gradient Boosting: XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost, with Kirill Eremenko
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
Evolution and Efficiency of XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost Algorithms
This chapter delves into the origins and success of XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost algorithms, highlighting their efficiency and speed in machine learning competitions like Kaggle. It compares the features of XGBoost and LightGBM, emphasizing the latter's faster processing speed with histogram-based splits, and explains exclusive feature bundling technique to reduce columns in sparse datasets.
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