Understanding XGBoost Algorithm

XGBoost stands for "Extreme Gradient Boosting". XGBoost is an optimized distributed gradient boosting library designed to be highly efficient, flexible and portable. It implements Machine Learning algorithms under the Gradient Boosting framework. It provides a parallel tree boosting to solve many data science problems in a fast and accurate way. Boosting is an ensemble learning technique to build a strong classifier from several weak classifiers in series. Boosting algorithms play a crucial role in dealing with bias-variance trade-off.