/catboost

A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library, used for ranking, classification, regression and other machine learning tasks for Python, R, Java, C++. Supports computation on CPU and GPU.

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CatBoost is a machine learning method based on gradient boosting over decision trees.

Main advantages of CatBoost:

Get Started and Documentation

All CatBoost documentation is available here.

Install CatBoost by following the guide for the

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Catboost models in production

If you want to evaluate Catboost model in your application read model api documentation.

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Reference Paper

Anna Veronika Dorogush, Andrey Gulin, Gleb Gusev, Nikita Kazeev, Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova, Aleksandr Vorobev "Fighting biases with dynamic boosting". arXiv:1706.09516, 2017.

Anna Veronika Dorogush, Vasily Ershov, Andrey Gulin "CatBoost: gradient boosting with categorical features support". Workshop on ML Systems at NIPS 2017.

License

© YANDEX LLC, 2017-2019. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE file for more details.