What Extreme things does XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boost) do?

The introduction of Boosting methods actually made the statement very clear that Non-Neural Net models can also give on-par results to Neural Net models. XGBoost is used in almost 80–90% of Kaggle competitions because of its ability to give good accuracy for class imbalance problems(How they do it…

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