@knimebine007 I tried a few things but it seems not to be possible to transfer models of xgboost between knime and python. You could set up xgboost in python nodes. I will habe to see if I can make an example.
Best way to transfer more complex models between knime, Python and R is the H2O.ai MOJO format
Depending on you data. From my experience when a robust tree model is of any use often H2O.ai GBM does come close (To XGBoost). You could let that train with automl an benefit from the grid search within or set up you own hyper parameter search.