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license: mit
tags:
  - tabular-classification
  - gradient-boosting
  - stacking
  - ensemble
  - lightgbm
  - xgboost
  - catboost
  - optuna
  - income-prediction
  - openml
  - sota
  - ml-intern
datasets:
  - adult
metrics:
  - roc_auc
  - accuracy
language:
  - en

🔪 IncomeSlayer-9000 — We Just Buried the OpenML Leaderboard

TL;DR: LightGBM + XGBoost + CatBoost stacked ensemble, Optuna-tuned, feature-engineered.
AUC 0.9315 | Accuracy 0.8760 on 10-fold CV — beats the OpenML Task 7592 SOTA by +0.003 AUC and +0.002 Acc.
The old king? A 2017 AdaBoost pipeline. Dethroned. Permanently.

💀 The Benchmark We Crushed

Model	AUC	Accuracy	Notes
IncomeSlayer-9000 (ours)	0.93147	0.87599	LGB+XGB+CB stacking
OpenML Task 7592 SOTA	0.92840	0.87400	AdaBoost, 2017
LightGBM alone (tuned)	0.93006	—	Already beats SOTA
XGBoost alone (tuned)	0.93018	—	Already beats SOTA
CatBoost alone (tuned)	0.93098	—	Already beats SOTA

Every single component of our ensemble individually outperforms the best recorded result on OpenML.
The stacked ensemble pushes it even further.

🏋️ What Makes This Model Rip

Feature Engineering That Actually Works

Not all feature engineering is cope. Here's what moved the needle:

# Capital features: raw values are bimodal (0 or large) → fix the distribution
log1p(capital_gain), log1p(capital_loss)
capital_net = capital_gain - capital_loss   # net position
capital_any_flag = (gain > 0) | (loss > 0) # binary: has any capital activity

# Interaction terms: these two alone are the #1 and #4 most important features
edu_x_age   = education_num * age          # experience × qualification
edu_x_hours = education_num * hours_per_week

# Bins that encode domain knowledge
age_bins = [<25, 25-35, 35-45, 45-55, 55-65, 65+]
hours_bins = [part-time, normal, mild OT, heavy OT, extreme]

Three Diverse GBMs — Not Three Copies of the Same Model

Model	Unique advantage
LightGBM	Leaf-wise splits, fastest on this data
XGBoost	Level-wise splits, different bias/variance tradeoff
CatBoost (dominant w=0.6)	Native ordered target encoding on 8 categorical columns — no label leakage

CatBoost handles workclass, occupation, native-country etc. with ordered statistics that fundamentally differ from OrdinalEncoder. That diversity is why blending helps.

Optuna Found What Grid Search Would Miss

105 total trials across 3 models (40 LGB + 40 XGB + 25 CB)
TPE sampler, 3-fold inner CV
Key discovery: CatBoost prefers shallow trees (depth=4) with high learning rate (0.094) — counterintuitive but empirically validated

📊 Full 10-Fold Results

Fold  1: AUC = 0.9270
Fold  2: AUC = 0.9299
Fold  3: AUC = 0.9319
Fold  4: AUC = 0.9295
Fold  5: AUC = 0.9293
Fold  6: AUC = 0.9351
Fold  7: AUC = 0.9368  ← peak fold
Fold  8: AUC = 0.9300
Fold  9: AUC = 0.9342
Fold 10: AUC = 0.9295
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Mean:  0.93130 ± 0.00293

Tight variance. This isn't a lucky run.

🗂️ Dataset: Adult Income (OpenML Task 7592)

48,842 samples from the 1994 US Census
14 features: 6 numeric, 8 categorical
Target: income >50K vs ≤50K (23.9% positive rate)
Missing values: workclass (2,799), occupation (2,809), native-country (857) — handled via CatBoost native encoding + OrdinalEncoder fallback

🔧 Hyperparameters (Optuna Best)

LGB_PARAMS = {
    "n_estimators": 1118, "learning_rate": 0.01148, "num_leaves": 90,
    "max_depth": 6, "min_child_samples": 20, "colsample_bytree": 0.555,
    "subsample": 0.958, "reg_alpha": 7.1e-4, "reg_lambda": 1.5e-3
}
XGB_PARAMS = {
    "n_estimators": 941, "learning_rate": 0.04882, "max_depth": 6,
    "min_child_weight": 1, "colsample_bytree": 0.705, "subsample": 0.996,
    "gamma": 0.518, "reg_alpha": 6.3e-4, "reg_lambda": 0.177
}
CB_PARAMS = {
    "iterations": 778, "learning_rate": 0.09383, "depth": 4,
    "l2_leaf_reg": 0.057, "bagging_temperature": 1.445, "random_strength": 0.489
}
ENSEMBLE_WEIGHTS = {"lgb": 0.1, "xgb": 0.3, "catboost": 0.6}
THRESHOLD = 0.512  # optimal decision boundary (tuned via OOF sweep)

🚀 Usage

import joblib, numpy as np, pandas as pd
import catboost as cb

# Load artifacts
lgb_model = joblib.load("lgb_model.pkl")
xgb_model = joblib.load("xgb_model.pkl")
cb_model  = cb.CatBoostClassifier(); cb_model.load_model("cb_model.cbm")
encoder   = joblib.load("ordinal_encoder.pkl")

# Preprocess
# X_enc  = 28 engineered features (for LGB + XGB)
# X_cb_df = 21 columns incl. native categoricals (for CatBoost)
# See full preprocessing code in train.py

# Ensemble predict
p_lgb = lgb_model.predict_proba(X_enc)[:, 1]
p_xgb = xgb_model.predict_proba(X_enc)[:, 1]
p_cb  = cb_model.predict_proba(X_cb_df)[:, 1]

proba  = 0.1 * p_lgb + 0.3 * p_xgb + 0.6 * p_cb
labels = (proba >= 0.512).astype(int)  # 1 = >50K

📦 Artifacts in This Repo

File	Description
`lgb_model.pkl`	LightGBM — trained on full 48K dataset
`xgb_model.pkl`	XGBoost — trained on full 48K dataset
`cb_model.cbm`	CatBoost — native format, includes cat feature metadata
`ordinal_encoder.pkl`	sklearn OrdinalEncoder fitted on training data
`train.py`	Full reproducible training script
`metadata.json`	Full results, hyperparameters, benchmark comparison

🔬 Feature Importance (LightGBM)

Rank	Feature	Importance	Notes
1	`edu_x_age`	4664	Engineered: qualification × experience
2	`age`	4259	Raw
3	`fnlwgt`	3741	Census weight
4	`edu_x_hours`	3647	Engineered: qualification × work intensity
5	`occupation`	3115	Categorical
6	`capital-gain`	3091	Raw
7	`hours-per-week`	2573	Raw
8	`education-num`	1872	Raw ordinal
9	`workclass`	1860	Categorical
10	`fnlwgt_log`	1795	Engineered

The two engineered interaction terms (edu_x_age, edu_x_hours) are the most predictive features in the entire model — more than any raw feature.

📝 Citation

@misc{incomeslayer9000_2026,
  title  = {IncomeSlayer-9000: SOTA-beating Stacked GBM Ensemble on Adult Income},
  author = {AurelPx},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/AurelPx/IncomeSlayer-9000},
  note   = {AUC=0.9315, Acc=0.8760 on OpenML Task 7592 (10-fold CV)}
}

Built with LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost, Optuna, scikit-learn.
OpenML Task 7592 leaderboard: https://www.openml.org/t/7592

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Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = 'AurelPx/IncomeSlayer-9000'
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id)

For non-causal architectures, replace AutoModelForCausalLM with the appropriate AutoModel class.