Pierre Louis Saintindata from the trenchesHow Do Gradient Boosting Algorithms Handle Categorical Variables?We review and experiment the various categorical encoding strategies of xgboost, lightgbm and catboost.8 min read·Jul 3, 2020----
Pierre Louis Saintindata from the trenchesThe Many Flavors of Gradient Boosting AlgorithmsWe present the inner workings of XGBoost, Lightgbm, HistGradBoosting and compare their performance. Does one stand out ?8 min read·Jun 19, 2020----