Vasiliy Ershov

Vasiliy Ershov is a software developer at Yandex and a PhD student in Saint-Petersburg State University. His main responsibilities in Yandex include developing machine learning tools and infrastructure for tools. Currently Vasily is the main developer of GPU version of gradient boosted decision trees library CatBoost.
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Data Science Dec 13, 2018

CatBoost Enables Fast Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees Using GPUs

Machine Learning techniques are widely used today for many different tasks. Different types of data require different methods. Yandex relies on Gradient... 19 MIN READ