Published inData Science & Designxgboost GPU performance on low-end GPU vs high-end CPUxgboost CPU with fast histogram is extremely fast compared to old school methods such as exact histogram.Dec 30, 20184Dec 30, 20184
Published inData Science & DesignInvestigating xgboost Exact scalabilityxgboost is a very well known Machine Learning technique based on Gradient Boosted Trees. The default xgboost is an exact method, which does…Jan 31, 2018Jan 31, 2018
Published inData Science & DesignGetting the most of xgboost and LightGBM speed: Compiler, CPU pinningCurrently, xgboost and LightGBM are the two best performing machine learning algorithms for large datasets (both in speed and metric…Jan 28, 20182Jan 28, 20182
Published inData Science & DesignGigabyte Aero 14 review & benchmarks: laptop versus serversPremium laptop one size fits allNov 2, 20178Nov 2, 20178
Published inData Science & DesignIs KVM virtualization slowing down CPU computations?When it comes to pure CPU computations, KVM is doing a great job at providing maximum performance when tuned properly. And when it comes to…Aug 31, 20171Aug 31, 20171
Published inData Science & DesignLightGBM on Windows: Visual Studio vs MinGW (gcc), R with Visual StudioThinking on using LightGBM on Windows? You know you are given two hard choices: Visual Studio or MinGW (gcc).Jun 10, 2017Jun 10, 2017
Published inData Science & DesignInterview: AMD Ryzen as a workstationToday, we got an interview with drverzal about a brand new AMD Ryzen rig!May 25, 20171May 25, 20171
Published inData Science & DesignBenchmarking xgboost with and without virtualizationWe have seen previously that the xgboost had a new fast histogram method leading to blazing performance. All our tests were done on a…May 25, 2017May 25, 2017
Published inData Science & DesignBenchmarking new xgboost fast histogram: xgboost and the compiler storyWe have seen previously that the new xgboost fast histogram method had an issue: it was awfully slow. But we fixed it. By recompiling R…May 14, 2017May 14, 2017
Published inData Science & DesignExact xgboost and Fast Histogram xgboost training speed comparisonDid you ever wanted to compare “unfairly” Exact xgboost and Fast Histogram xgboost? Here you are served.Apr 29, 20171Apr 29, 20171
