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June 15, 2026Machine Learning ResearchOpen Access

Gradient Boosting Revisited: Comparative Analysis of Selected Advances on Real-World Tabular Data

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MAMoses Apambila AgebureNavrongo Health Research CentreJWJapheth WireduRegent University College of Science and TechnologySAStephen AkobreNavrongo Health Research Centre

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Implication

Compares seven Gradient Boosting models in terms of accuracy and stability across datasets, suggesting their applicability varies with data characteristics.

Key Points

  • The objective is to systematically analyze various Gradient Boosting models to evaluate their predictive performance and stability across multiple datasets.
  • Conducted a systematic analysis of seven models: XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, HistGradientBoosting, GradientBoosting, AdaBoost, and MorphBoost.
  • Trained models on ten benchmark datasets with a fixed 80:20 train-test split and 3-fold cross-validation.
  • Measured performance using accuracy, F1-score, and ROC-AUC metrics.
  • CatBoost achieved the highest mean accuracy of 0.9400 and a near-perfect ROC-AUC of 0.9915.
  • HistGradientBoosting was identified as the most stable model, followed by LightGBM and XGBoost.
  • MorphBoost shows promise in binary and high-dimensional datasets but lacks support for multiclass handling.

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Agebure et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2f980ca1cfeec4908290f7https://doi.org/10.11648/j.mlr.20261101.14
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