LauraeinData 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.13 min read·Dec 30, 2018--4--4
LauraeinData 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…4 min read·Jan 31, 2018----
LauraeinData 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…6 min read·Jan 28, 2018--2--2
LauraeinData Science & DesignGigabyte Aero 14 review & benchmarks: laptop versus serversPremium laptop one size fits all21 min read·Nov 2, 2017--8--8
LauraeinData 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…2 min read·Aug 31, 2017--1--1
LauraeinData 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).4 min read·Jun 10, 2017----
LauraeinData Science & DesignInterview: AMD Ryzen as a workstationToday, we got an interview with drverzal about a brand new AMD Ryzen rig!4 min read·May 25, 2017--1--1
LauraeinData 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…4 min read·May 25, 2017----
LauraeinData 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…5 min read·May 14, 2017----
LauraeinData 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.3 min read·Apr 29, 2017--1--1