Commit 4a1e5fa5 authored by Nikita Titov's avatar Nikita Titov Committed by Qiwei Ye
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Update Advanced-Topics.rst (#1661)

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......@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Categorical Feature Support
Refer to the parameter ``categorical_feature`` in `Parameters <./Parameters.rst#categorical_feature>`__.
- Categorical features must be encoded as non-negative integers (``int``) less than ``Int32.MaxValue`` (2147483647).
It is best to use a contiguous range of integers.
It is best to use a contiguous range of integers started from zero.
- Use ``min_data_per_group``, ``cat_smooth`` to deal with over-fitting (when ``#data`` is small or ``#category`` is large).
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