no code implementations • 24 Oct 2018 • Anna Veronika Dorogush, Vasily Ershov, Dmitriy Kruchinin
This article provides a comprehensive study of different ways to make speed benchmarks of gradient boosted decision trees algorithm.
3 code implementations • 24 Oct 2018 • Anna Veronika Dorogush, Vasily Ershov, Andrey Gulin
In this paper we present CatBoost, a new open-sourced gradient boosting library that successfully handles categorical features and outperforms existing publicly available implementations of gradient boosting in terms of quality on a set of popular publicly available datasets.
10 code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Liudmila Prokhorenkova, Gleb Gusev, Aleksandr Vorobev, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Andrey Gulin
This paper presents the key algorithmic techniques behind CatBoost, a new gradient boosting toolkit.