Introduction to XGBoost Principles
1 Algorithm Overview XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boosting) is also a member of the Boosting family. To understand its working principle, we first need to briefly introduce the related concepts of AdaBoost and GBDT. AdaBoost focuses on misclassified samples, increasing the weight of misclassified samples each time to train new classifiers. XGBoost is essentially a GBDT, … Read more