hi Sina,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Sina Siadat <sia...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I just wrote a simple gradient regressor in Go. Gradient boosting is a
> statistical learning method. Given a number of samples it returns a
> function that fits the those data and can be used to predict previously
> unseen data. The usage is simple, here's an example:
>
>     trainSamples := []sample.Sample{
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 0}, Y: 10},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 1}, Y: 10},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 2}, Y: 20},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 3}, Y: 20},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 4}, Y: 5},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 5}, Y: 5},
>     }
>     predictFunc := gradboostreg.Learn(trainSamples, 0.5, 10)
>
>     testSamples := []sample.Sample{
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 0.0}, Y: 10},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 0.5}, Y: 10},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 2.5}, Y: 20},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 2.0}, Y: 20},
>     sample.DefaultSample{Xs: map[string]float64{"x": 4.5}, Y: 5},
>     }
>
>     for i := range testSamples {
>     predicted, actual := predictFunc(testSamples[i]),
> testSamples[i].GetY()
>     fmt.Printf("predicted=%.1f actual=%.1f\n", predicted, actual)
>     }
>
>     // Output:
>     // predicted=10.0 actual=10.0
>     // predicted=10.0 actual=10.0
>     // predicted=20.0 actual=20.0
>     // predicted=20.0 actual=20.0
>     // predicted=5.0 actual=5.0
>
> Here's the source: https://github.com/siadat/gradboostreg
>
> Let me know what you think! :)
>

nice!

I have one "drive-by-comment" and a question:
you could have perhaps used gonum for the stats stuff :)

and the question: did you compare your package with XGBoost (which is now
kind of a standard candle nowadays) in terms of accuracy, speed and memory
usage?

cheers,
-s

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