G2

Meliksah T.

Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/17/2019

"The greatest boosting algorithm that existed so far"

4.5/5

What do you like best about XGBoost?

It's the best performing stand-alone algorithm (not counting deep learning algorithms which is whole another field) famous for winning many online machine learning competitions. It runs fast and performs better than bagging algorithms because it learns from the mistakes of previous tree models that were built within it. It is possible to tune XGBoost for various metrics, too so if you want a high recall, you can do it with the help of GridSearchCV. It is very efficient compared to famous Random Forest algorithm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about XGBoost?

That it is not a part of a bigger package such as Anaconda but we have to install it separately. Also, its greatness comes with the cost of overfitting just like deep neural networks. It learns so good that after hyperparameter tuning it overfits more than other algorithms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering XGBoost:

Be careful when hyperparameter tuning, it can overfit even though train and test data were separated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is XGBoost solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving Machine Learning problems with XGBoost. It learns and performs very well both in terms of performance metrics such as accuracy and fscore as well as training time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.