Table 2 Extreme Gradient Boosting regression modeling hyperparameters from the grid search.
From: Environmental determinants of COVID-19 transmission across a wide climatic gradient in Chile
Parameter | Description | Range | Optimum value |
|---|---|---|---|
n_estimators | Number of iterations in training | 10–1000 | 56 |
Eta | Model learning rate | 0.02–0.05 | 0.03 |
max_depth | Maximum depth of the tree | 4–8 | 4 |
Gamma | Minimal loss reduction required to perform an additional partition on a leaf node of the tree | 0 | 0 |
colsample_bytree | The last parameter that we need to config | 0.5–0.9 | 0.5 |
min_child_weight | Sum of sample weight of the smallest leaf nodes to prevent overfitting | 1–2 | 1 |
subsample | Sampling rate of all training samples | 1–3 | 1 |