The Boosting Family Decision Tree: Everything on One Page

The One-Line Summary: One printable page for the whole boosting family — what each member actually changes about the update rule, a flowchart for picking between AdaBoost, sklearn's GBM, XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost, starting hyperparameters with the two that are really one, the losses worth knowing and when to switch, and a symptom-to-fix list for the eight ways a boosted model goes wrong. The One Line the Whole Family Shares THE BOOSTING UPDATE…