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my friend, XGBoost is not a neural net-based method, it represents a best-of-breed for an alternative family of methods. "While the XGBoost model often achieve
by mistrial9 2y ago
my friend, XGBoost is not a neural net-based method, it represents a best-of-breed for an alternative family of methods.
"While the XGBoost model often achieves higher accuracy than a single decision tree, it sacrifices the intrinsic interpretability of decision trees. For example, following the path that a decision tree takes to make its decision is trivial and self-explained, but following the paths of hundreds or thousands of trees is much harder."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGBoost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGBoost
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoUnless the parent edited their comment, you misread it, because they are specifically saying XGBoost is not a neural network: > Here though the keywords are "ensemble machine learning" and "Bayesian" - they could have used a neural net for the machine learning but most likely it is just XGBoost or similar. I.e. they could have used a neural network but they probably used something else, that something else being XGBoost.