Tweeted By @ogrisel
Very pleased by the recent work done by @hug_nicolas to speed-up our pure Python + @numba_jit prototype implementation of gradient boosted trees: https://t.co/Ii6bAqmoRa The master branch is now competitive with LightGBM on the Higgs boson benchmark dataset.
— Olivier Grisel (@ogrisel) November 1, 2018