Practice LightGBM and CatBoost - 5.5 | 5. Supervised Learning – Advanced Algorithms | Data Science Advance
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Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What does LightGBM stand for?

💡 Hint: Think about its focus on speed and efficiency.

Question 2

Easy

What type of data is CatBoost optimized for?

💡 Hint: Remember, it directly handles a certain type of feature.

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Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What type of tree growth does LightGBM use?

  • Level-wise
  • Leaf-wise
  • Depth-wise

💡 Hint: Think about which approach is better for capturing complexities.

Question 2

True or False: CatBoost requires categorical features to be manually encoded before modeling.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Remember its core advantage.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

You have a dataset with millions of records, significantly containing categorical features. Which algorithm would you leverage and why? Elaborate on your choice comparing LightGBM and CatBoost.

💡 Hint: Think about what it takes to preprocess and the strengths of both algorithms.

Question 2

If tasked with improving a current model that is overfitting, what strategies could be derived from CatBoost's methods that could also be applied to other models?

💡 Hint: Consider how controlled learning and validation might help.

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