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We employ the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) method to build the car-following model. The results show that our model achieves optimal performance with a mean squared error of 0.002181, surpassing the model that disregards heterogeneity factors. Furthermore, utilizing model importance analysis, we determined that the cumulative importance score of heterogeneity factors in the model is 0.7262. 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