Introduction to Boosted Trees — xgboost 3.0.4 documentation

Introduction to Boosted Trees XGBoost stands for “Extreme Gradient Boosting”, where the term “Gradient Boosting” originates from the paper Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine, by Friedman. The term gradient boosted trees has been around for a while, and there are a lot of materials on the topic. This tutorial will explain boosted trees in a self-contained and principled way