Support for Catboost models

[XinEDprob]

I searched the current issues and documentation but did not find support for CatBoost in Dask. Do we plan to add support in the future

[TomAugspurger]

Can you share an example of what you have in mind?

[XinEDprob]

Hi @TomAugspurger, thanks for the response. I am thinking if it is possible for dask to support CatBoost like what dask is currently supporting xgboost. see https://ml.dask.org/xgboost.html

[TomAugspurger]

Gotcha. These days, I believe that the implementation of xgboost's support for dask collections is upstream in XGBoost itself: https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorials/dask.html Perhaps something similar would be possible for catboost.

[XinEDprob]

Agreed, at least it should be a joint effort by dask and catboost to implement this feature.