How to choose between different Boosting Algorithms

AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, Light Gbm, CatBoost

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I first heard about boosting algorithm a few years back. I was still in my school bachelor's degree and using linear regression/logistic regression as the main algorithm for machine learning. Back then, boosting sounds like a really difficult and complicated algorithm, and it…