Demystifying the XGBoost Paper
This chapter will simplify the XGBoost paper XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System to give you a general overview of the XGBoost algorithm and how it works. The paper is available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02754. We will build on what you learned in the overview of machine learning and classification and regression trees presented in Chapter 1.
In this chapter, you’ll cover the following main topics:
- Examining the paper XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System at a high level
- Exploring the features and benefits of XGBoost
- Understanding the XGBoost algorithm
- Comparing XGBoost with other ensemble decision tree models
