gradient-boosting

  • XGBoost
  • LightGBM
  • CatBoost

Description: Gradient boosting builds models sequentially to correct errors made by previous models, optimizing for accuracy.

Key Points:

  • Highly accurate and efficient.
  • Can handle different types of data.
  • Prone to overfitting if not properly tuned.

Applications: Web search ranking, customer churn prediction, insurance risk prediction.