Gradient Boosting and XGBoost in Machine Learning: Easy Explanation for Data Science Interviews

Questions about Gradient Boosting frequently appear in data science interviews. In this video, I cover what the Gradient Boosting method and XGBoost are, teach you how I would describe the architecture of gradient boosting, and go over some common pros and cons associated with gradient-boosted trees.

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00:00 Introduction
01:01 Gradient Boosting
02:11 Gradient-boosted Trees
02:54 Algorithm
05:53 Hyperparameters
07:55 Pros and Cons
09:00 XGBoost

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