gbm

Generalized Boosted Regression Models

v2.2.3 · Jan 22, 2026 · GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE

Description

An implementation of extensions to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost algorithm and Friedman's gradient boosting machine. Includes regression methods for least squares, absolute loss, t-distribution loss, quantile regression, logistic, multinomial logistic, Poisson, Cox proportional hazards partial likelihood, AdaBoost exponential loss, Huberized hinge loss, and Learning to Rank measures (LambdaMart). Originally developed by Greg Ridgeway. Newer version available at github.com/gbm-developers/gbm3.

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Reverse Dependencies (105)

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LogisticEnsembles NumericEnsembles gbm2sas mma

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ARTtransfer CRE CoxAIPW E2E EZtune EpiSemble GB5mcPred IPMRF MEGB OpEnHiMR PSweight ROOT RSDA SDMtune SSDM WaveletGBM aihuman biomod2 bonsaiforest bst bujar crispRdesignR crossurr ecospat enmSdmX evalITR funcml gbm.auto gbts i3pack lilikoi metaEnsembleR mimar mob mvGPS nadir paths pomodoro precmed qeML ranktreeEnsemble regressoR rgnoisefilt scorecardModelUtils spm spm2 tidylearn traineR tsensembler twang twangContinuous twangMediation varPro visualpred xgrove

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Version History

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new 2.2.3 Mar 10, 2026

updated 2.2.3 ← 2.2.2 diff Jan 21, 2026

updated 2.2.2 ← 2.1.9 diff Jun 27, 2024

updated 2.1.9 ← 2.1.8.1 diff Jan 9, 2024

updated 2.1.8.1 ← 2.1.8 diff Aug 10, 2022

updated 2.1.8 ← 2.1.5 diff Jul 14, 2020

updated 2.1.5 ← 2.1.4 diff Jan 13, 2019

updated 2.1.4 ← 2.1.3 diff Sep 15, 2018

updated 2.1.3 ← 2.1.2 diff Mar 20, 2017

updated 2.1.2 ← 2.1.1 diff Mar 20, 2017

updated 2.1.1 ← 2.1 diff Mar 10, 2015

updated 2.1 ← 2.0-8 diff May 9, 2013

updated 2.0-8 ← 1.6-3.2 diff Jan 17, 2013

updated 1.6-3.2 ← 2.0-5 diff Dec 8, 2012

updated 2.0-5 ← 1.6-3.1 diff Dec 7, 2012