xgboost logo

xgboost

dmlc/xgboost

Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting Library

GraphCanon updated Sep 27, 2026 · GitHub synced Sep 27, 2026

51views this month

29k stars8.9k forksLast push Sep 26, 2026 C++ Apache-2.0

Decision brief

xgboost: Scalable, portable gradient boosting library in C++ under Apache-2 license

Good fit when

  • Highly efficient for large datasets over billions of examples due to optimizations for speed and memory use.
  • Flexible with multi-language support (Python, R, Java) enhancing cross-platform applicability.

Avoid when

  • Avoid if ease-of-use and quick model training are more important than fine-tuning or extreme scalability.
  • Not suitable when the dataset fits comfortably in memory on a single node, where other simpler tools may exceed.

Observed Jul 16, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts

Verify the decision

Maintenance and security

Full trust report
Maintenance
Very active (0d since push)
As of Sep 27, 2026
Provenance
Not a fork · Organization account
As of Sep 27, 2026
Security (OSV)
No lockfile
As of Jul 11, 2026

Public GitHub metadata and optional OSV scans. Signals, not a guarantee. Trust methodology.

Install

git clone https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

Similar tools

Same-category neighbours. No typed graph edges are catalogued for this tool yet.

Evidence and technical details

Sourced facts, taxonomy, compatibility claims, README excerpt, and machine-readable endpoints.

Overview

A highly efficient, flexible, and portable gradient boosting library supporting multiple languages including Python, R, Java, Scala, C++, running on various distributed environments.

Capability facts

Languages
c++

Source: github.language · Sep 27, 2026

Categories

Tags

README

<img src="https://xgboost.ai/images/logo/xgboost logo trimmed.png" width=200/ eXtreme Gradient Boosting =========== Blog Documentation Resources Contributors Release Notes XGBoost is an optimized distributed gradient boosting library designed to be highly efficient , flexible and...

For agents

This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.

Was this helpful?

Anonymous feedback helps us improve pages and translations.