CatBoost: Unbiased Boosting with Categorical Features, Liudmila Prokhorenkova, Gleb Gusev, Aleksandr Vorobev, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Andrey Gulin, 2018Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS)DOI: 10.5555/3295222.3295328 - This foundational paper introduces the CatBoost algorithm, detailing the limitations of traditional categorical encoding methods and the issues they present for gradient boosting, such as target leakage and high-cardinality problems.