Support new version of xgboost?

[cookielee77]

Thanks for amazing package! Current version only supports xgboost <=0.90, but we used a newer version of xgboost >= 1.00. I'm wondering whether there is a plan to support the newer version of xgboost in the near future?

Thanks!

[mrocklin]

Hi @cookielee77 ! You may also be interested in using the xgboost.dask package. See https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/dask.html

[cookielee77]

Thanks for the quick answer! I'm wondering whether the difference between the xgboost.dask package in the above page and xgboost in dask_ml (which requires dask-xgboost)?

[jrbourbeau]

@cookielee77, good question. The functionality in dask-xgboost has been upstreamed and included in the main xgboost package (that's the xgboost.dask package @mrocklin was referencing). We will soon deprecate dask-xgboost and recommend users move to xgboost.dask instead (xref https://github.com/dask/dask-xgboost/issues/80).

[cookielee77]

Thanks for the clarification!

[jakirkham]

Yes please use xgboost for this functionality.