Gradient Boosting Machines

Gradient Boosting Machines as a family of methods have been the “talk of the town” in the Machine learning world for a while now, with the specific flavour of Gradient Boosting Trees has been regarded as “the best off-the-shelf” classifier in the world” (Breiman, 1986/1987, see Hastie et al. 2013) [1].  A wonderful review about…