xgboost and categorical predictors

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xgboost and categorical predictors #830

Open topepo opened 2 years ago

topepo commented 2 years ago

There is an experimental argument for categorical variables.

We need a process to potentially adopt this and how we should handle

backward compatability
changes to parsnip:::as_xgb_data() since some new xgboost options are required for this.

EmilHvitfeldt commented 2 years ago

Related issues in xgboost

https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/8048
https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/7899

exsell-jc commented 2 years ago

I thought I created an issue about this, but I might be wrong -- might've been in a wrong repository. It would be really nice if this gets implemented.

simonpcouch commented 7 months ago

Related to #1087. Once the xgboost team starts moving toward an R release of xgboost 2 we can do a push on supporting those new features and interfaces!