Alternatives

Catboost alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Catboost

A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library, used for ranking, classification, regression and other machine learning tasks for Python, R, Java, C++. Supports computation on CPU and GPU.

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#1

Pyod

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 100

A Python library for anomaly detection across tabular, time series, graph, text, and image data. 60+ detectors, benchmark-backed ADEngine orchestration, and an agentic workflow for AI agents.

9.9K starsJun 5, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add yzhao062/pyod
#2

Sktime

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

A unified framework for machine learning with time series

9.8K starsJun 11, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add sktime/sktime
#3

H2o 3

Similarity 132Trust 89Excellent 100

H2O is an Open Source, Distributed, Fast & Scalable Machine Learning Platform: Deep Learning, Gradient Boosting (GBM) & XGBoost, Random Forest, Generalized Linear Modeling (GLM with Elastic Net), K-Means, PCA, Generalized Additive Models (GAM), RuleFit, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Stacked Ensembles, Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML), etc.

7.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add h2oai/h2o-3
#4

LightGBM

Similarity 132Trust 90Excellent 100

A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.

18K starsJun 9, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add lightgbm-org/LightGBM
#5

Feast

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

The Open Source Feature Store for AI/ML

7.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add feast-dev/feast
#6

Open3D

Similarity 131Trust 85Excellent 100

Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add isl-org/Open3D
#7

Ray

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.

43K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ray-project/ray
#8

Pytorch Lightning

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on 1 or 10,000+ GPUs with zero code changes.

31K starsJun 10, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning
#9

ML For Beginners

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

12 weeks, 26 lessons, 52 quizzes, classic Machine Learning for all

87K starsJun 9, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
#10

Keras

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

Deep Learning for humans

64K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add keras-team/keras
#11

Yolov5

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

Ultralytics YOLOv5 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > TFLite

58K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ultralytics/yolov5
#12

SpaCy

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

๐Ÿ’ซ Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

34K starsMay 19, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add explosion/spaCy
#13

Netron

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models

33K starsJun 14, 2026 pushml-automationJavaScriptMachine Learning
$ npx skills add lutzroeder/netron
#14

Burn

Similarity 126Trust 90Excellent 100

Burn is a next generation tensor library and Deep Learning Framework that doesn't compromise on flexibility, efficiency and portability.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationRustMachine Learning
$ npx skills add tracel-ai/burn
#15

Wandb

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

The AI developer platform. Use Weights & Biases to train and fine-tune models, and manage models from experimentation to production.

11K starsJul 23, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add wandb/wandb
#16

Ludwig

Similarity 125Trust 90Excellent 100

Low-code framework for building custom LLMs, neural networks, and other AI models

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ludwig-ai/ludwig

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