LightGBM

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LightGBM

Last updated 2020-04-22 Read time 1 min
Summary
  • LightGBM is a fast gradient-boosting library developed by Microsoft. With histogram approximation and leaf-wise tree growth, it keeps ...

  • model assumptions and when the method is appropriate.
  • objective criteria and how they influence model behavior.

Intuition #

LightGBM is a fast gradient-boosting library developed by Microsoft. With histogram approximation and leaf-wise tree growth, it keeps high accuracy while speeding up training on large, high-dimensional data.

It offers GPU training, native categorical handling, and distributed learning, which makes it a popular choice on Kaggle and in production.

Detailed Explanation #

LightGBM is a fast gradient-boosting library developed by Microsoft. With histogram approximation and leaf-wise tree growth, it keeps high accuracy while speeding up training on large, high-dimensional data.

It offers GPU training, native categorical handling, and distributed learning, which makes it a popular choice on Kaggle and in production.