Reddit r/MachineLearningSeptember 17, 2026
XGBoost vs Human Markets [P]
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What is the generally thought of as the upper limit of the predictive power of XGBoost vs an aggregate of humans? Right now I feed the model the same information that the human market has access to, and the model gets crushed on Top 1 accuracy, it closes the gap a bit but is still 10pp below the market on Top 2 accuracy. Adding the market pricing information to the model does nothing or hurts accuracy compared to just the market pricing. I'm just feeling really stuck, and I cant seem to be able