catboost

1. catboost vs ltgbm cs xgboost

1.1. https://neptune.ai/blog/when-to-choose-catboost-over-xgboost-or-lightgbm https://towardsdatascience.com/catboost-vs-lightgbm-vs-xgboost-c80f40662924 https://neptune.ai/blog/when-to-choose-catboost-over-xgboost-or-lightgbm https://www.kaggle.com/code/faressayah/xgboost-vs-lightgbm-vs-catboost-vs-adaboost

2. catboost

2.1. https://towardsdatascience.com/introduction-to-gradient-boosting-on-decision-trees-with-catboost-d511a9ccbd14 https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-dive-into-catboost-functionalities-for-model-interpretation-7cdef669aeed https://towardsdatascience.com/why-you-should-learn-catboost-now-390fb3895f76

3. From Nvidia https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/catboost-fast-gradient-boosting-decision-trees

4. feature_importances

4.1. https://www.rasgoml.com/feature-engineering-tutorials/how-to-generate-feature-importance-plots-using-catboost https://shap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_notebooks/tabular_examples/tree_based_models/Catboost%20tutorial.html

5. catboost official documentation - this is very highly detailed and useful https://catboost.ai/ some details on catboost,XGBoost and LightGBM including grid search https://towardsdatascience.com/catboost-vs-light-gbm-vs-xgboost-5f93620723db https://towardsdatascience.com/yes-xgboost-is-cool-but-have-you-heard-of-catboost-1930ebacd36d