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Financial and credit scoring models

Recommendation engines

Ad targeting scoring systems

Kaggle competition solutions

Enterprise ML consulting

Enhanced distributed and GPU training

Better support for sparse and categorical data

Improved API consistency and usability

Integration with deep learning pipelines

More interpretability and visualization tools

Extremely small datasets (risk of overfitting)

Raw unstructured text or image data

When interpretability is more important than accuracy

GPU not available for extremely large datasets

Highly imbalanced datasets without proper weighting

XGBoost is a high-performance, scalable gradient boosting library.

Optimized for speed, accuracy, and large datasets.

Supports classification, regression, and ranking tasks.

Integrates with Python and ML pipelines easily.

Widely used in industry, competitions, and production ML systems.

Is XGBoost free?

Yes - open-source under Apache 2.0 license.

Which languages are supported?

Python, R, Julia, Java, C++, CLI.

Can XGBoost handle large datasets?

Yes, optimized for millions of rows and sparse features.

Does XGBoost support GPU?

Yes, optional via CUDA-enabled GPU training.

Is XGBoost suitable for ranking?

Yes - built-in ranking objectives (rank:pairwise, rank:ndcg)