Lecture 8 – Boosting method (XGBoost)#

Here, we will mainly talk about the different Boosting methods used for tree models, such as Adaboost, and xGboost, etc.

Contents of this lecture

  • Background (basic formulation of regression)

  • Ensemble decision trees for regression

    • Random forest

    • Bagging

    • Boosting

  • Gradient boosting

  • eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost)

  • Summary

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