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 Changelog
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-New features
+Highlights
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    - Gradient boosted regression trees (:ref:`gradient_boosting`)
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      ``shrink_threshold`` parameter, which implements **shrunken centroid
      classification**, by `Robert Layton`_.
 
-Improvements and refactorings
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+Other changes
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    - Merged dense and sparse implementations of :ref:`sgd` module and
      exposed utility extension types for sequential