Questions tagged [gradient-boosting]
For questions related to gradient boosting, which is a machine learning technique that can be used for regression and classification problems and which produces a prediction model in the form of an ensemble of other smaller prediction models (typically decision trees).
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House price inflation modelling
I have a data set of house prices and their corresponding features (rooms, meter squared, etc). An additional feature is the sold date of the house. The aim is to create a model that can estimate the ...
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React on train-validation curve after trening
I have a regression task that I tray to solve with AI.
I have around 6M rows with about 30 columns. (originally there was 100, but I reduce it with drop feature importance)
I understand basic ...
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Can XGBoost solve XOR problem?
I've read that decision trees are able to solve XOR operation so I conclude that XGBoost algorithm can solve it as well.
But my tests on the datasets (datasets that should be highly "xor-ish"...
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Has “deep vs. wide” been resolved?
All else being equal, including total neuron count, I give the following definitions:
wide is a parallel ensemble, where good chunks of the neurons have the same inputs because the inputs are shared ...
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When do the ensemble methods beat Neural Networks?
In many applications and domains : Computer Vision, Natural Language Processsing, Image Segmentation, and many other tasks - neural networks of a certain architecture are considered to be by far the ...
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How do weak learners become strong in boosting?
Boosting refers to a family of algorithms which converts weak learners to strong learners. How does it happen?
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What are some applications where tree models perform better than neural networks?
Neural networks are known to be generally better modeling techniques as compared to tree-based models (such as decision trees). Are there any exceptions to this?
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GPU-training on Google Cloud Platform slower than CPU-training
I recently trained Kaggles "Advanced Housing Prices"-Competition using Catboost. For training i used a compute-instance on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (CPU: Xeon Quad-Core, RAM: 15GB, GPU: ...
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How would the “best function” been constructed if there are no computationally limitations?
I am reading the Wikipedia article on gradient boosting. There is written:
Unfortunately, choosing the best function $h$ at each step for an arbitrary loss function $L$ is a computationally ...
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How can I use gradient boosting with multiple features?
I'm trying to use gradient boosting and I'm using sklearn's GradientBoostingClassifier class.
My problem is that I'm having a data frame with 5 columns and I want ...
