Neural Network vs Xgboost

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Neural Network (Multi-Layer Perceptron, MLP) is an algorithm inspired by biological neural networks. The MLP consists of connected graph of processing units that mimic the neurons. The connections between neurons are so-called weights. Their values are selected during the training process. The training goal is to minimize the error between values predicted by MLP and true values.

References

License

License for Scikit-Learn implementation of Neural Network: New BSD License

xgboost logo

XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) is a library that provides machine learning algorithms under the a gradient boosting framework.

It works with major operating systems like Linux, Windows and macOS. It can run on a single machine or in the distributed environment with frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Dask, and DataFlow.

The library is available with interface in many programming languages: C++, Python, Java, R, Julia, Perl, and Scala.

References

License

Apache-2.0 License


Binary classification

Neural Network 1:18 Xgboost

Multiclass classification

Neural Network 2:5 Xgboost

Regression

Neural Network 3:13 Xgboost

winner podium

Binary classification

adult plot

Adult dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.85214 - vs - 0.87629 Xgboost

This is an Adult database. The prediction task is to determine whether a person makes over 50K a year. Data extraction was done by Barry Becker from the 1994 Census database. Variables are all self-explanatory except __fnlwgt__. This is a proxy for the people's demographic background: 'People with similar demographic characteristics should have similar weights.' This similarity-statement is not relevant in all the different 51 states.

Category: People

Rows: 48,842 Columns: 14

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1590


amazon_employee_access plot

Amazon employee access dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.94251 - vs - 0.94943 Xgboost

This is an Amazon_employee_access database. The data consists of real historical data collected from 2010 & 2011. Employees are manually allowed or denied access to resources over time. The data is used to create an algorithm capable of learning from this historical data to predict approval/denial for employees' unseen set. There is a considerable amount of data regarding an employee’s role within an organization and the resources to which they have access. Given the data related to current employees and their provisioned access, models can be built that automatically determine access privileges as employees enter and leave roles within a company. These auto-access models seek to minimize the human involvement required to grant or revoke employee access.

Category: Technology

Rows: 32,769 Columns: 9

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/4135


aps_failure plot

Aps failure dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.99241 - vs - 0.99508 Xgboost

This is an APS Failure at Scania Trucks. The dataset consists of data collected from heavy Scania trucks in everyday usage. The system in focus is the Air Pressure system (APS), which generates pressurized air utilized in various functions in a truck, such as braking and gear changes. The datasets' positive class consists of component failures for a specific component of the APS system. The negative class consists of trucks with failures for components not related to the APS.

Category: Manufacturing

Rows: 76,000 Columns: 170

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/41138


banknote_authentication plot

Banknote authentication dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 1.0 - vs - 0.99636 Xgboost

This is a banknote-authentication. Dataset about distinguishing genuine and forged banknotes. Data were extracted from images that were taken from genuine and forged banknote-like specimens. For digitization, an industrial camera usually used for print inspection was used.

Category: Fintech

Rows: 1,372 Columns: 4

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1462


bank_marketing plot

Bank marketing dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.90201 - vs - 0.91057 Xgboost

The Bank Marketing Dataset. The data is related to direct marketing campaigns of a Portuguese banking institution. The marketing campaigns were based on phone calls. More than one contact to the same client was often required to access if the product (bank term deposit) would be (or not) subscribed.

Category: Marketing

Rows: 45,211 Columns: 16

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1461


bioresponse plot

Bioresponse dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.76966 - vs - 0.81472 Xgboost

This is a Bioresponse database. Predict a biological response of molecules from their chemical properties. The first column contains experimental data describing an actual biological response; the molecule was seen to elicit this response (1) or not (0). The remaining columns represent molecular descriptors (d1 through d1776); these are calculated properties that can capture some of the molecule's characteristics - for example, size, shape, or elemental constitution. The descriptor matrix has been normalized.

Category: Technology

Rows: 3,751 Columns: 1,776

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/4134


churn plot

Churn dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.9484 - vs - 0.9604 Xgboost

This is a churn dataset. A dataset relating characteristics of telephony account features and usage and whether or not the customer churned.

Category: Marketing

Rows: 5,000 Columns: 20

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/40701


click_prediction_small plot

Click prediction small dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.83333 - vs - 0.83664 Xgboost

This is a Click_prediction_small database. This data is derived from the 2012 KDD Cup. The data is about advertisements shown alongside search results in a search engine and whether or not people clicked on these ads. A search session contains information on user id, the user's query, ads displayed to the user, and the target feature indicating whether a user clicked at least one of the ads in this session.

Category: Marketing

Rows: 39,948 Columns: 11

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1220


credit_approval plot

Credit approval dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.86957 - vs - 0.88986 Xgboost

This is a credit-approval dataset. This file concerns credit card applications. All attribute names and values have been changed to meaningless symbols to protect the confidentiality of the data.

Category: Banking

Rows: 690 Columns: 15

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/29


credit_g plot

Credit g dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.729 - vs - 0.79 Xgboost

This is a German Credit dataset. It classifies people described by a set of attributes as good or bad credit risks. This dataset contains such information as a type of job, age, credit history.

Category: Banking

Rows: 1000 Columns: 20

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/31


diabetes plot

Diabetes dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.76693 - vs - 0.79557 Xgboost

This is a Pima Indians Diabetes Database. According to World Health Organization criteria, the diagnostic, binary-valued variable investigated is whether the patient shows signs of diabetes.

Category: Healthcare

Rows: 768 Columns: 8

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/37


electricity plot

Electricity dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.81243 - vs - 0.94163 Xgboost

This is an Electricity dataset. This data was collected from the Australian New South Wales Electricity Market. In this market, prices are not fixed and are affected by the market's demand and supply. They are set every five minutes. Electricity transfers to/from the neighboring state of Victoria were done to alleviate fluctuations.

Category: Energy

Rows: 45,312 Columns: 8

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/151


higgs plot

Higgs dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.7181 - vs - 0.73078 Xgboost

This is a Higgs database. Higgs Boson detection data. The data has been produced using Monte Carlo simulations.

Category: Science

Rows: 98,050 Columns: 28

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/23512


internet_advertisements plot

Internet advertisements dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.96889 - vs - 0.97652 Xgboost

This dataset represents a set of possible advertisements on Internet pages. The features encode the image's geometry (if available) as well as phrases occurring in the URL, the image's URL and alt text, the anchor text, and words occurring near the anchor text. The task is to predict whether an image is an advertisement ('ad') or not ('nonad').

Category: Marketing

Rows: 3,279 Columns: 1,558

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/40978


kddcup09_churn plot

Kddcup09 churn dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.92656 - vs - 0.9276 Xgboost

This is a KDDCup09_churn database. The KDD Cup 2009 offers the opportunity to work on large marketing databases from the French Telecom company Orange to predict customers' propensity to switch providers (churn). Churn is one of two primary factors that determine the steady-state level of customers a business will support. In its broadest sense, the churn rate is a measure of the number of individuals or items moving into or out of a collection over a specific period of time.

Category: Marketing

Rows: 50,000 Columns: 230

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1112


kddcup09_upselling plot

Kddcup09 upselling dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.93464 - vs - 0.9518 Xgboost

This is a KDDCup09_upselling database. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a key element of modern marketing strategies. The KDD Cup 2009 offers the opportunity to work on large marketing databases from the French Telecom company Orange to predict the propensity of customers to switch provider (churn), buy new products or services (appetency), or buy upgrades or add-ons proposed to them to make the sale more profitable (up-selling).

Category: Marketing

Rows: 50,000 Columns: 230

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1114


phishing_websites plot

Phishing websites dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.96852 - vs - 0.97467 Xgboost

This is the Phishing Websites Data. There's plenty of articles about predicting phishing websites have been disseminated these days; no reliable training dataset has been published publically, maybe because there is no agreement in the literature on the definitive features that characterize phishing webpages. Hence it is difficult to shape a dataset that covers all possible features. In this dataset, the authors shed light on the important features that have proved to be sound and effective in predicting phishing websites.

Category: Web

Rows: 11,055 Columns: 30

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/4534


spambase plot

Spambase dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.94436 - vs - 0.95892 Xgboost

This is a SPAM E-mail Database. This collection of spam e-mails came from postmasters and individuals who had filed spam. Collection of non-spam e-mails came from filed work and personal e-mails, and hence the word 'george' and the area code '650' are indicators of non-spam. These are useful when constructing a personalized spam filter. One would either have to blind such non-spam indicators or get an extensive collection of non-spam to generate a general-purpose spam filter.

Category: Technology

Rows: 4,601 Columns: 57

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/44


wdbc plot

Wdbc dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.96485 - vs - 0.97891 Xgboost

This is a WDBC dataset (Wisconsin Diagnostic Brest Cancer). Features are computed from a digitized image of a fine needle aspirate (FNA) of a breast mass. They describe the characteristics of the cell nuclei present in the image.

Category: Healthcare

Rows: 569 Columns: 30

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1510


Multiclass classification

amazon_commerce_reviews plot

Amazon commerce reviews dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.358 - vs - 0.72533 Xgboost

This is an amazon-commerce-reviews. Datasets are derived from the customer's reviews on Amazon Commerce Website for authorship identification. Most previous studies conducted identification experiments for two to ten authors. But in the online context, reviews to be identified usually have more potential authors, and normally classification algorithms are not adapted to a large number of target classes. To examine the robustness of classification algorithms, the authors of this database identify 50 of the most active users (represented by a unique ID and username) who frequently posted reviews in these newsgroups. The number of reviews we collected for each user is 30.

Category: Marketing

Rows: 1,500 Columns: 10,000

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1457


car plot

Car dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.989 - vs - 0.99595 Xgboost

The Car Evaluation Database contains examples with the structural information removed, i.e., directly relates CAR to the six input attributes: buying, maint, doors, persons, lug_boot, safety. Because of known underlying concept structure, this database may be particularly useful for testing constructive induction and structure discovery methods.

Category: Automotive

Rows: 1,728 Columns: 6

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/40975


cnae_9 plot

Cnae 9 dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.95741 - vs - 0.925 Xgboost

This is a cnae-9 database. It is a data set containing 1080 documents of free text business descriptions of Brazilian companies categorized into a subset of 9 categories. The original texts were preprocessed to obtain the current data set: initially, it was kept only letters, and then was removed prepositions of the texts. Next, the words were transformed into their canonical form. Finally, each document was represented as a vector, where the weight of each word is its frequency in the document. This data set is highly sparse.

Category: Business

Rows: 1,080 Columns: 856

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/1468


connect_4 plot

Connect 4 dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.80473 - vs - 0.86525 Xgboost

This database contains all legal 8-ply positions in the game of connect-4 in which neither player has won yet, and in which the next move is not forced. Attributes represent board positions on a 6x6 board. The outcome class is the game-theoretical value for the first player (2: win, 1: loss, 0: draw).

Category: Gaming

Rows: 45,312 Columns: 8

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/40668


mfeat_factors plot

Mfeat factors dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.9695 - vs - 0.9705 Xgboost

One of a set of 6 datasets describing features of handwritten numerals (0 - 9) extracted from a collection of Dutch utility maps. Corresponding patterns in different datasets correspond to the same original character. 200 instances per class (for a total of 2,000 instances) have been digitized in binary images.

Category: Technology

Rows: 2,000 Columns: 216

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/12


segment plot

Segment dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.96883 - vs - 0.97835 Xgboost

The instances were drawn randomly from a database of 7 outdoor images. The images were hand-segmented to create a classification for every pixel. Each instance is a 3x3 region.

Category: Technology

Rows: 2,310 Columns: 19

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/40984


vehicle plot

Vehicle dataset

Metric: Accuracy

Neural Network 0.81915 - vs - 0.78132 Xgboost

The vehicle silhouettes - purpose to classify a given silhouette as one of four types of vehicle, using a set of features extracted from the silhouette. The vehicle may be viewed from one of many different angles.

Category: Automotive

Rows: 846 Columns: 18

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/54


Regression

abalone plot

Abalone dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 2.12125 - vs - 2.12322 Xgboost

This is Abalone data. Predicting the age of abalone from physical measurements. The age of abalone is determined by cutting the shell through the cone, staining it, and counting the number of rings through a microscope. There are other, easier to obtain measurements to predict the age. Further information can be used, such as weather patterns and location (hence food availability).

Category: Animals

Rows: 4,177 Columns: 8

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42726


airlines_depdelay_1m plot

Airlines depdelay 1m dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 28.50875 - vs - 28.20409 Xgboost

This is an Airlines Departure Delay Prediction. This is a processed version of the original data, designed to predict departure delay.

Category: Insurance

Rows: 188,318 Columns: 131

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42721


allstate_claims_severity plot

Allstate claims severity dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 2,042.34976 - vs - 1,941.67097 Xgboost

This is an Allstate Claims severity database. This dataset contains insurance claims. Allstate is developing automated methods of predicting the cost, and hence severity, of claims. This dataset was shared on Kaggle to find insight into better ways to predict claims severity.

Category: Energy

Rows: 45,312 Columns: 8

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42571


black_friday plot

Black friday dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 3,573.50332 - vs - 3,439.06419 Xgboost

This is a Black Friday database. It contains customer purchases on Black Friday and information as age, gender, marital status of consumers.

Category: Retail

Rows: 166,821 Columns: 9

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/41540


boston plot

Boston dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 3.33588 - vs - 2.93168 Xgboost

This is the Boston house-price data database. It contains such information as per capita crime rate by town, the proportion of non-retail business acres per town, the average number of rooms per dwelling.

Category: Real Estate

Rows: 506 Columns: 13

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/531


buzzinsocialmedia_twitter plot

Buzzinsocialmedia twitter dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 188.95364 - vs - 230.39882 Xgboost

This is a Buzz in the Social Media Twitter database. This data-set contains examples of buzz events from two different social networks: Twitter, and Tom's Hardware, a forum network focusing on new technology with more conservative dynamics.

Category: Social Media

Rows: 583,250 Columns: 77

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/4549


colleges plot

Colleges dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 0.16424 - vs - 0.14496 Xgboost

This is the Colleges database. Regroups information for about 7800 different US colleges. Including geographical information, stats about the population attending, and post-graduation career earnings.

Category: People

Rows: 7,063 Columns: 47

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42727


diamonds plot

Diamonds dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 715.3343 - vs - 535.0129 Xgboost

This is a Diamonds database. This classic dataset contains the prices and other attributes of almost 54,000 diamonds.

Category: Technology

Rows: 53,940 Columns: 9

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42225


house_sales plot

House sales dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 124,500.51896 - vs - 116,544.09149 Xgboost

This is a house_sales database. This dataset contains house sale prices for King County, which includes Seattle. It includes homes sold between May 2014 and May 2015. It contains 19 house features plus the price and the id columns, along with 21613 observations. It's a great dataset for evaluating simple regression models.

Category: Business

Rows: 21,613 Columns: 22

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42731


moneyball plot

Moneyball dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 35.30851 - vs - 22.59217 Xgboost

This is the Moneyball database. This dataset contains some of the information that was available to Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta, who worked for the Oakland Athletics in the early 2000s and changed the game of baseball. It can be used to understand their statistical methods better. The database contains such information as team, league, year, runs scored, wins.

Category: Sport

Rows: 1,232 Columns: 14

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/41021


nyc_taxi_green_dec_2016 plot

Nyc taxi green dec 2016 dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 1.91626 - vs - 1.85096 Xgboost

This is a Trip Record Data database. It is provided by the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). The dataset included TLC trips of the green line in December 2016.

Category: Automotive

Rows: 581,835 Columns: 18

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42729


online_news_popularity plot

Online news popularity dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 11,518.37334 - vs - 11,495.28144 Xgboost

This is an Online News Popularity database. This dataset summarizes a heterogeneous set of features about Mashable articles in a period of two years. The goal is to predict the number of shares in social networks (popularity).

Category: Marketing

Rows: 39,644 Columns: 60

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42724


santander_transaction_value plot

Santander transaction value dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 445,432,557.55619 - vs - 7,028,229.74277 Xgboost

This is a Santander Transaction Value database. It provides an anonymized dataset containing numeric feature variables, the numeric target column, and a string ID column. The Santander Group supplied this database on Kaggle to find a way to identify the value of transactions for each potential customer. This is the first step that Santander needs to nail in order to personalize their services at scale. The digitalization of everyday lives means that customers expect services to be delivered in a personalized and timely manner... and often before they've even realized they need the service.

Category: Technology

Rows: 4,459 Columns: 4,992

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42572


space_ga plot

Space ga dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 0.1003 - vs - 0.10548 Xgboost

This is an Election database. It contains 3,107 observations on county votes cast in the 1980 U.S. presidential election. Specifically, it contains the total number of votes cast in the 1980 presidential election per county (VOTES), the population in each county of 18 years of age or older (POP), the population in each county with a 12th grade or higher education ( EDUCATION), the number of owner-occupied housing units (HOUSES), the aggregate income (INCOME), the X spatial coordinate of the county (XCOORD), and the Y spatial coordinate of the county (YCOORD).

Category: Public Sector

Rows: 3,107 Columns: 6

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/507


us_crime plot

Us crime dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 0.13641 - vs - 0.13023 Xgboost

This is a Communities and Crime database. Communities within the United States. The data combines socio-economic data from the 1990 US Census, law enforcement data from the 1990 US LEMAS survey, and crime data from the 1995 FBI UCR.

Category: People

Rows: 1,994 Columns: 127

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/42730


wine_quality plot

Wine quality dataset

Metric: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)

Neural Network 0.68688 - vs - 0.59477 Xgboost

This is a Wine Quality database. Datasets are related to red and white variants of the Portuguese 'Vinho Verde' wine. Due to privacy and logistic issues, only physicochemical (inputs) and sensory (the output) variables are available (e.g., there is no data about grape types, wine brand, wine selling price, etc.). The inputs include objective tests (e.g., PH values), and the output is based on sensory data (median of at least 3 evaluations made by wine experts). Each expert graded the wine quality between 0 (very bad) and 10 (very excellent).

Category: Retail

Rows: 6,497 Columns: 11

Available at OpenML: https://openml.org/d/287