Machine Learning Basics
April 7, 2025

What is XGBoost ?

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Dhanashree B
Product Marketing Manager
Updated on
April 7, 2025

What is XGBoost?


XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) is a strong and useful version of gradient boosting algorithms. Chen and Guestrin introduced it in 2016. It is famous for its great performance and ability to grow. XGBoost uses a mix of decision trees to make predictions more exact and is now a favorite choice for lots of machine learning contests and everyday uses.


Why is XGBoost Important?


XGBoost is made for speed and performance often doing better than other machine learning methods in accuracy and computing power. It supports different goal functions like regression, classification, and ranking, which makes it flexible for various kinds of predicting tasks.XGBoost adds terms to prevent overfitting in its goal function which improves the model's ability to generalize.

What are the Benefits of XGBoost?

Accuracy: XGBoost provides high precision across many uses, from finance to healthcare, by capturing difficult patterns in the data.
Scalability: Its design is perfected for parallel processing making it fit for big datasets and distributed computing settings.
Customization: XGBoost provides a lot of hyperparameter tuning choices letting users tailor the model to meet their unique needs and data traits.

How Alltius AI Enables Organizations to Use XGBoost?

Alltius' provides leading enterprise AI technology for enterprises and governments to harness and extract value from their current data using variety of technologies, including XGBoost. Alltius' Gen AI platform enables companies to create, train, deploy and maintain AI assistants for sales, support agents and customers in a matter of a day. Alltius platform is based on 20+ years of experience at leading researchers at Wharton, Carnegie Mellon and University of California and excels in improving customer experience at scale using Gen AI assistants catered to customer's needs. Alltius' successful projects included but are not limited to Insurance(Assurance IQ), SaaS (Matchbook), Banks, Digital Lenders, Financial Services (AngelOne) and Industrial sector(Tacit).

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