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zitterbewegung on July 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yandex open sources CatBoost, a gradient boosting ...

I think its because of three reasons:

1. Yandex is annoucing a new ML library and that makes it news because Yandex is well established

2. Gradient boosting is quite effective and popular

3. Not everything has to be about deep learning

daddyo on July 18, 2017 [–]

Adding to 1.: This came out of MatrixNet research, which was state-of-the-art (and well-guarded) for years.

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