Research Article

Using XGBoost to Discover Infected Hosts Based on HTTP Traffic

Table 5

Experimental parameters settings.

ParameterDescriptionValue

boosterTree modelgbtree
gammaFor pruning1
max_depthDepth of decision tree12
scale_pos_weightBalance positive and negative sample weights1
subsample, colsample_bytreeProportion of random collected samples each time1
min_child_weightNumber of leaf nodes in the decision tree1000
etaLearning rate0.1