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Overview
Developed byYandex
Founded2017
LicenseApache 2.0
Open source✓ Open Source
Use casegradient boosting with native categorical feature support
Technical
API compatible
scikit-learn
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Alternative to
XGBoost
Based ongradient boosting
Competes with
XGBoostLightGBM
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CatBoost

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Yandex gradient boosting library with built-in categorical feature handling

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specialized for

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