What Is Boruta

Boruta is a feature selection algorithm. Precisely, it works as a wrapper algorithm around Random Forest. This package derive its name from a demon in Slavic mythology who dwelled in pine forests. We know that feature selection is a crucial step in predictive modeling.

What is Boruta in Python?

Boruta is a random forest based method, so it works for tree models like Random Forest or XGBoost, but is also valid with other classification models like Logistic Regression or SVM.

Is Boruta a wrapper method?

3) Embedded Method Boruta is a Wrapper method of feature selection. It is built around the random forest algorithm.