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Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow

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XGBoost keeps winning tabular competitions years after deep learning was supposed to make it obsolete.

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Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow

xgboost has 28.6k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 8.9k times. xgboost is written mainly in C++. It has been in active development since 2014. xgboost is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are distributed-systems, gbdt, gbm, gbrt.

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What is xgboost?

Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow

Is xgboost open source?

xgboost is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is xgboost free?

Yes. xgboost is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does xgboost use?

xgboost is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is xgboost written in?

xgboost is written mainly in C++.

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