Russia’s Internet giant Yandex has launched CatBoost, an open source machine learning service. The algorithm has already been integrated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research to ...

CatBoost is making its debut in two ways ... to replace MatrixNet, which is the machine learning algorithm that up to now has been used at the company for everything, from ranking tasks, weather ...

Bilenko said Yandex has already begun using CatBoost with its own services. The framework is replacing the older MatrixNet machine learning algorithm that Yandex uses for tasks such as search ...

CatBoost is the successor to MatrixNet, the machine learning algorithm that is widely used within Yandex for numerous ranking tasks, weather forecasting and making recommendations. Over the coming ...

CatBoost comes with support for Python and R, as well as a command-line interface to drive the machine learning library. The Python packages for CatBoost also include data visualization tools for ...