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Engineer seeks advice on cold-start sales forecasting

A practitioner says their company must forecast regional sales for a product not yet launched, using only product attributes, monthly invoice data, weather and macroeconomic indicators. The team currently uses an XGBoost regressor but lacks confidence in it, and is seeking alternative approaches.

r/MachineLearning ·

Question: XGBoost vs human market prediction limits

A practitioner reports feeding XGBoost the same information available to a human market but getting crushed on Top-1 accuracy and trailing about 10 percentage points on Top-2. Adding market pricing hurt or didn't help. They ask whether this reflects XGBoost's limits, encoding issues, or insufficient data.

r/MachineLearning ·
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