bdt2cpp 0.1.1

Transpile BDTs to C++ code.

# Generate C++ representations of boosted decision trees

This project tries to provide a generic functionality to transpile trained BDTs into minimal, efficient C++ functions to evaluate single vectors of features.

While many frameworks exist to train, evaluate and store BDTs, its often hard to use the results in a productive manner.

## Installation

So far there is only python3 support. Run ` pip install bdt2cpp ` to install the latest tagged version or ` pip install git+https://github.com/bixel/bdt2cpp.git ` for the current master version.

## Usage

To generate a minimal Makefile together with the C++ code inside a build/ directory from a given XGBoost dump or TMVA .xml file, simply run ` bdt2cpp my-bdt-dump.xgb ` You will find the corresponding files within the build/ directory and if you have installed clang, you can simply ` cd build make `

The generated executable is essentially a very minimal placeholder, if you had 3 input features you could quickly cross-check the predictions against the original training framework: ` cd build ./main 1 2 3 ` should give the same output as received within the training framework if a feature vector f = (1, 2, 3) is evaluated.

To see the complete list of features with some explanations, run ` bdt2cpp -h `