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XGBoost struggles to outperform human market predictions

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A user on Reddit's r/MachineLearning subreddit is seeking insights into the predictive capabilities of XGBoost compared to human market aggregates. The user has observed that their XGBoost model, using the same data available to human markets, significantly underperforms in terms of Top 1 and Top 2 accuracy. Attempts to incorporate market pricing data into the model have not improved its performance, leading the user to question whether they have reached the limits of XGBoost or if there are underlying data issues. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential limitations of current ML models in complex prediction tasks compared to human intuition.

RANK_REASON User query about model performance limitations.

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XGBoost struggles to outperform human market predictions

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 (ET) · /u/TravalonTom ·

    XGBoost vs Human Markets [P]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>What is the generally thought of as the upper limit of the predictive power of XGBoost vs an aggregate of humans? </p> <p>Right now I feed the model the same information that the human market has access to, and the model gets crushed on Top 1 acc…

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