Does the xgboost implementation support categorical features?

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Does the xgboost implementation support categorical features?

Closed this issue 2 years ago · 3 comments

The previous issue mentioned lgbm does not, I haven't seen any xgboost examples using categorical transformers. I am trying to use onehotencoder for my project because I saw it was listed as supported. Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2022-03-31T05:37:11.000Z

Hi @zigs824, we handle each transformer/estimator in a pipeline independently. OneHotEncoder is a transformer which our tool supports and similarly xgboost. Does this answer your question?

Answer 2 · 2022-11-24T07:31:44.000Z

Hello @zigs824 ,
Does it address your query regarding Xgboost, if so can we close the ticket.
Thanks.

Answer 3 · 2022-12-05T17:45:09.000Z

Hi @mohammedfazil003 , yes please close it. Thanks!