Command-line version binary

The following installation methods are supported:

• Download
• Build the binary from a local copy on Linux and macOS
• Build the binary from a local copy on Windows
• Build the binary with make on Linux (CPU only)
• Build the binary with MPI support from a local copy (GPU only)

Note that there are additional system requirements and specifics if training on GPU is required.

GPU system requirements

The built versions of CatBoost have GPU support out-of-the-box.

Devices with compute capability 3.0 and higher are supported in compiled packages.

Training on GPU requires NVIDIA Driver of version 418.xx or higher.

The command-line version of CatBoost for CUDA with compute capability 2.0 can be built from source. In this case the following steps are required:

• Step 2 of the Build the binary from a local copy on Linux and macOS operation.
• Step 2 of the Build the binary from a local copy on Windows operation.

GPU specifics

• Some training parameters are missing but will be added in future releases
• Multiple train runs with the same random seed may result in different formulas because of the float summation order