Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Over the years a lot of people have asked me to talk about a machine learning method called CatBoost. One CatBoot's things is to use a unique approach to Target Encoding. Today we'll (hopefully) talk about that method, but if not, at least we'll take a big step towards talking about it.

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