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Prediction shift: the leakage problem your gradient boosting model has and your CV under-detects

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Valeriy Manokhin
May 15, 2026
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Chapter 2.4 of Mastering CatBoost opens with a definition I want to start from, because it is the technically-correct one and it is also the one that hides what is actually happening:

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