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Theano vs XGBoost: What are the differences?
What is Theano? Define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. Theano is a Python library that lets you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions, especially ones with multi-dimensional arrays (numpy.ndarray). Using Theano it is possible to attain speeds rivaling hand-crafted C impleme.
What is XGBoost? Scalable and Flexible Gradient Boosting. Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Flink and DataFlow.
Theano and XGBoost can be categorized as "Machine Learning" tools.
Theano is an open source tool with 8.87K GitHub stars and 2.5K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Theano's open source repository on GitHub.