How is feature importance calculated for GradientBoostingClassifier

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I'm using scikit-learn's gradient-boosted trees classifier, GradientBoostingClassifier. It makes feature importance score available in feature_importances_. How are these feature importances calculated?

I'd like to understand what algorithm scikit-learn is using, to help me understand how to interpret those numbers. The algorithm isn't listed in the documentation.

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