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  "id": 56324,
  "title": "Dart was a way better in this competition",
  "url": "/competitions/talkingdata-adtracking-fraud-detection/discussion/56324",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-05-08T15:31:00.103740400Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 12,
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  "content": "<p>I wonder who else did notice that in this competition choosing a dart for boosting was a much better in term of results? My best submission was made in last day and in was almost basic features set with some counter trained on 1 fold with dar trees</p>",
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    {
      "id": "325582",
      "postDate": "05/08/2018 15:31:00",
      "content": "<p>I wonder who else did notice that in this competition choosing a dart for boosting was a much better in term of results? My best submission was made in last day and in was almost basic features set with some counter trained on 1 fold with dar trees</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I wonder who else did notice that in this competition choosing a dart for boosting was a much better in term of results? My best submission was made in last day and in was almost basic features set with some counter trained on 1 fold with dar trees",
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    {
      "id": "325599",
      "postDate": "05/08/2018 16:05:46",
      "content": "<p>we did, our model was mainly based on dart trees - I will do a short write up tonight :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "we did, our model was mainly based on dart trees - I will do a short write up tonight :)",
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    {
      "id": "325733",
      "postDate": "05/08/2018 19:49:46",
      "content": "<p>Would be great</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Would be great",
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    },
    {
      "id": "325764",
      "postDate": "05/08/2018 20:46:07",
      "content": "<p>I used DART without any other parameter and ended up having bad results. Did you specify how much dropout ? I really thought DART is better than GBDT but could not prove it.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I used DART without any other parameter and ended up having bad results. Did you specify how much dropout ? I really thought DART is better than GBDT but could not prove it.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "325976",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 06:23:58",
      "content": "<p>Yes, Dart was better, but slower than the regular one.  I used a mix of the two.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes, Dart was better, but slower than the regular one.  I used a mix of the two.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "325988",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 06:39:38",
      "content": "<p>interesting. correct me if I'm wrong, xgboost uses dart as the default boosting method, while lightgbm not. but my lgb outperforms xgb about 0.0004 under the same training data/hyperparameters, would be glad to have some feedback if anyone else tried</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "interesting. correct me if I'm wrong, xgboost uses dart as the default boosting method, while lightgbm not. but my lgb outperforms xgb about 0.0004 under the same training data/hyperparameters, would be glad to have some feedback if anyone else tried",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "326033",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 07:11:35",
      "content": "<p>@ValeriyBabushkin, are you asking about  booster? <a href=\"http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/dart.html\">http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/dart.html</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "ValeriyBabushkin, are you asking about  booster? http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/dart.html",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "326042",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 07:23:11",
      "content": "<p>what is dart is no hard task to find\nwhy it performs  significantly better here is however another question</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "what is dart is no hard task to find\nwhy it performs  significantly better here is however another question",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "326043",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 07:25:21",
      "content": "<p>Yea, sure. I was just wondering  what it is, never heard about it</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yea, sure. I was just wondering  what it is, never heard about it",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "326110",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 09:55:26",
      "content": "<p>I am not sure that default algorithm for xgboost is dart</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am not sure that default algorithm for xgboost is dart",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "326127",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 10:21:43",
      "content": "<p>booster [default=gbtree] in xgboost</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "booster [default=gbtree] in xgboost",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "326130",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 10:31:25",
      "content": "<p>thanks! I got it, would try dart to see if it performs better</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "thanks! I got it, would try dart to see if it performs better",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "326150",
      "postDate": "05/09/2018 11:05:05",
      "content": "<p>just my experience, dart tree in xgboost before v7 was not very well implemented - lgb's version is much faster and more accurate </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "just my experience, dart tree in xgboost before v7 was not very well implemented - lgb's version is much faster and more accurate",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 325599,
      "author_name": "yifanxie",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/08/2018 16:05:46",
      "content": "<p>we did, our model was mainly based on dart trees - I will do a short write up tonight :)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 325733,
          "author_name": "venheads",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/08/2018 19:49:46",
          "content": "<p>Would be great</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 325764,
      "author_name": "mayanksoni",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/08/2018 20:46:07",
      "content": "<p>I used DART without any other parameter and ended up having bad results. Did you specify how much dropout ? I really thought DART is better than GBDT but could not prove it.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 325976,
      "author_name": "cpmpml",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/09/2018 06:23:58",
      "content": "<p>Yes, Dart was better, but slower than the regular one.  I used a mix of the two.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 325988,
      "author_name": "atm584",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/09/2018 06:39:38",
      "content": "<p>interesting. correct me if I'm wrong, xgboost uses dart as the default boosting method, while lightgbm not. but my lgb outperforms xgb about 0.0004 under the same training data/hyperparameters, would be glad to have some feedback if anyone else tried</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 326110,
          "author_name": "venheads",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/09/2018 09:55:26",
          "content": "<p>I am not sure that default algorithm for xgboost is dart</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 326127,
          "author_name": "insaff",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/09/2018 10:21:43",
          "content": "<p>booster [default=gbtree] in xgboost</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 326130,
          "author_name": "atm584",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/09/2018 10:31:25",
          "content": "<p>thanks! I got it, would try dart to see if it performs better</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 326033,
      "author_name": "insaff",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/09/2018 07:11:35",
      "content": "<p>@ValeriyBabushkin, are you asking about  booster? <a href=\"http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/dart.html\">http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/dart.html</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 326042,
          "author_name": "venheads",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/09/2018 07:23:11",
          "content": "<p>what is dart is no hard task to find\nwhy it performs  significantly better here is however another question</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 326043,
          "author_name": "insaff",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/09/2018 07:25:21",
          "content": "<p>Yea, sure. I was just wondering  what it is, never heard about it</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 326150,
      "author_name": "yifanxie",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/09/2018 11:05:05",
      "content": "<p>just my experience, dart tree in xgboost before v7 was not very well implemented - lgb's version is much faster and more accurate </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "325582": "I wonder who else did notice that in this competition choosing a dart for boosting was a much better in term of results? My best submission was made in last day and in was almost basic features set with some counter trained on 1 fold with dar trees",
    "325599": "we did, our model was mainly based on dart trees - I will do a short write up tonight :)",
    "325733": "Would be great",
    "325764": "I used DART without any other parameter and ended up having bad results. Did you specify how much dropout ? I really thought DART is better than GBDT but could not prove it.",
    "325976": "Yes, Dart was better, but slower than the regular one.  I used a mix of the two.",
    "325988": "interesting. correct me if I'm wrong, xgboost uses dart as the default boosting method, while lightgbm not. but my lgb outperforms xgb about 0.0004 under the same training data/hyperparameters, would be glad to have some feedback if anyone else tried",
    "326033": "ValeriyBabushkin, are you asking about  booster? http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/dart.html",
    "326042": "what is dart is no hard task to find\nwhy it performs  significantly better here is however another question",
    "326043": "Yea, sure. I was just wondering  what it is, never heard about it",
    "326110": "I am not sure that default algorithm for xgboost is dart",
    "326127": "booster [default=gbtree] in xgboost",
    "326130": "thanks! I got it, would try dart to see if it performs better",
    "326150": "just my experience, dart tree in xgboost before v7 was not very well implemented - lgb's version is much faster and more accurate"
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