Abstract: Mine water inrush is one of the main threats to mine safety production. Rapid analysis of the cause of water inrush and accurate identification of water inrush source are the key steps of mine water inrush disaster control. In order to effectively prevent and control mine water inrush disaster and identify mine water inrush source accurately and quickly, a mine water inrush source identification model (PSO-XGBoost) based on particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) and limit gradient lifting regression tree (XGBoost) was proposed. The efficiency and accuracy of water inrush source identification were further improved by the efficient parameter global search model, and the model was successfully applied to the Laohutai mine in Fushun coal field, Liaoning Province to verify the practicability of the model. Based on the spectral data of 40 groups of water samples from Laohutai mine, the original spectral data were preprocessed by multiple scattering correction, smoothing denoising, standardization and principal component analysis, and the training set and test set were divided according to the ratio of 7∶3 according to stratified random sampling. Secondly, the individual optimal value and the global optimal value of particles are initialized, and PSO is used to iteratively optimize seven parameters of XGBoost algorithm, such as learning_rate, n_estimatiors, max_depth, etc., to construct the classification and recognition model under the optimal parameter combination. To further investigate the superiority of the model, the average discrimination accuracy and log loss value were selected as evaluation indexes to compare the classification recognition results of PSO-XGBoost model with PSO-SVM and PSO-RF models, while the generalization ability of each model was evaluated by 100 repetitions of cross-validation. The comparison results showed that the average discrimination accuracies of XGBoost, PSO-SVM, PSO-RF and PSO-XGBoost models for the test set data were 87.76%, 87.56%, 91.67% and 91.67%, respectively. For repeated cross-validation, the average accuracy of XGBoost, PSO-SVM, PSO-RF, and PSO-XGBoost models were 87.76%, 87.56%, 90.63%, and 93.18%, respectively, with corresponding log-loss averages of 0.5453, 0.5460, 0.5623, and 0.4534, respectively. Comprehensive analysis of evaluation indexes shows that PSO-XGBoost model has higher discrimination accuracy and better generalization ability in mine water inrush source identification.