xgboost VS scikit-learn

Compare xgboost vs scikit-learn and see what are their differences.

xgboost

Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow (by dmlc)

scikit-learn

scikit-learn: machine learning in Python (by scikit-learn)
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xgboost scikit-learn
6 64
23,872 53,380
0.7% 1.3%
9.3 9.9
7 days ago 5 days ago
C++ Python
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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xgboost

Posts with mentions or reviews of xgboost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-28.

scikit-learn

Posts with mentions or reviews of scikit-learn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xgboost and scikit-learn you can also consider the following projects:

Keras - Deep Learning for humans

Prophet - Tool for producing high quality forecasts for time series data that has multiple seasonality with linear or non-linear growth.

Surprise - A Python scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems

MLP Classifier - A handwritten multilayer perceptron classifer using numpy.

tensorflow - An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

gensim - Topic Modelling for Humans

H2O - H2O is an Open Source, Distributed, Fast & Scalable Machine Learning Platform: Deep Learning, Gradient Boosting (GBM) & XGBoost, Random Forest, Generalized Linear Modeling (GLM with Elastic Net), K-Means, PCA, Generalized Additive Models (GAM), RuleFit, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Stacked Ensembles, Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML), etc.

PyBrain

seqeval - A Python framework for sequence labeling evaluation(named-entity recognition, pos tagging, etc...)