Catboost plot_tree understanding

Question

When plotting a tree from catboost, it shows val in leaves; what do these values represent?

I can't find the answer in their official tutorial on plotting, nor are there any such questions answered anywhere that I could find. Like:

1. LightGBM plot_tree() Leaf numbers
2. What' the meaning of "Val" in the visualization of a lightgbm tree?
3. https://github.com/catboost/catboost/issues?q=plot_tree

Answer 1

These are values predicted by the tree. There are more than one value for multi-classification and multi-regression.

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