Benchmarking state-of-the-art gradient boosting algorithms for classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17094v1
• Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 17:06:15 GMT
• Title: Benchmarking state-of-the-art gradient boosting algorithms for classification
• Authors: Piotr Florek, Adam Zagda\'nski
• Abstract summary: This work explores the use of gradient boosting in the context of classification. Four popular implementations, including original GBM algorithm and selected state-of-the-art gradient boosting frameworks, have been compared. An attempt was made to indicate a gradient boosting variant showing the right balance between effectiveness, reliability and ease of use.
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• Abstract: This work explores the use of gradient boosting in the context of classification. Four popular implementations, including original GBM algorithm and selected state-of-the-art gradient boosting frameworks (i.e. XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost), have been thoroughly compared on several publicly available real-world datasets of sufficient diversity. In the study, special emphasis was placed on hyperparameter optimization, specifically comparing two tuning strategies, i.e. randomized search and Bayesian optimization using the Tree-stuctured Parzen Estimator. The performance of considered methods was investigated in terms of common classification accuracy metrics as well as runtime and tuning time. Additionally, obtained results have been validated using appropriate statistical testing. An attempt was made to indicate a gradient boosting variant showing the right balance between effectiveness, reliability and ease of use.

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