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https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM
A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.
https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM
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A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM
- Owner: microsoft
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-08-05T05:45:50.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-05-01T20:52:43.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-02T06:05:51.217Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: data-mining, decision-trees, distributed, gbdt, gbm, gbrt, gradient-boosting, kaggle, lightgbm, machine-learning, microsoft, parallel, python, r
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Size: 20.6 MB
- Stars: 16,067
- Watchers: 437
- Forks: 3,772
- Open Issues: 379
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Security: SECURITY.md
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README
Light Gradient Boosting Machine
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LightGBM is a gradient boosting framework that uses tree based learning algorithms. It is designed to be distributed and efficient with the following advantages:
- Faster training speed and higher efficiency.
- Lower memory usage.
- Better accuracy.
- Support of parallel, distributed, and GPU learning.
- Capable of handling large-scale data.
For further details, please refer to [Features](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Features.rst).
Benefiting from these advantages, LightGBM is being widely-used in many [winning solutions](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/examples/README.md#machine-learning-challenge-winning-solutions) of machine learning competitions.
[Comparison experiments](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Experiments.rst#comparison-experiment) on public datasets show that LightGBM can outperform existing boosting frameworks on both efficiency and accuracy, with significantly lower memory consumption. What's more, [distributed learning experiments](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Experiments.rst#parallel-experiment) show that LightGBM can achieve a linear speed-up by using multiple machines for training in specific settings.
Get Started and Documentation
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Our primary documentation is at https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/ and is generated from this repository. If you are new to LightGBM, follow [the installation instructions](https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation-Guide.html) on that site.
Next you may want to read:
- [**Examples**](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/tree/master/examples) showing command line usage of common tasks.
- [**Features**](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Features.rst) and algorithms supported by LightGBM.
- [**Parameters**](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Parameters.rst) is an exhaustive list of customization you can make.
- [**Distributed Learning**](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Parallel-Learning-Guide.rst) and [**GPU Learning**](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/GPU-Tutorial.rst) can speed up computation.
- [**FLAML**](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/fast-and-lightweight-automl-for-large-scale-data/articles/flaml-a-fast-and-lightweight-automl-library/) provides automated tuning for LightGBM ([code examples](https://microsoft.github.io/FLAML/docs/Examples/AutoML-for-LightGBM/)).
- [**Optuna Hyperparameter Tuner**](https://medium.com/optuna/lightgbm-tuner-new-optuna-integration-for-hyperparameter-optimization-8b7095e99258) provides automated tuning for LightGBM hyperparameters ([code examples](https://github.com/optuna/optuna-examples/blob/main/lightgbm/lightgbm_tuner_simple.py)).
- [**Understanding LightGBM Parameters (and How to Tune Them using Neptune)**](https://neptune.ai/blog/lightgbm-parameters-guide).
Documentation for contributors:
- [**How we update readthedocs.io**](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/README.rst).
- Check out the [**Development Guide**](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Development-Guide.rst).
News
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Please refer to changelogs at [GitHub releases](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/releases) page.
External (Unofficial) Repositories
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Projects listed here offer alternative ways to use LightGBM.
They are not maintained or officially endorsed by the `LightGBM` development team.
LightGBMLSS (An extension of LightGBM to probabilistic modelling from which prediction intervals and quantiles can be derived): https://github.com/StatMixedML/LightGBMLSS
FLAML (AutoML library for hyperparameter optimization): https://github.com/microsoft/FLAML
Optuna (hyperparameter optimization framework): https://github.com/optuna/optuna
Julia-package: https://github.com/IQVIA-ML/LightGBM.jl
JPMML (Java PMML converter): https://github.com/jpmml/jpmml-lightgbm
Nyoka (Python PMML converter): https://github.com/SoftwareAG/nyoka
Treelite (model compiler for efficient deployment): https://github.com/dmlc/treelite
lleaves (LLVM-based model compiler for efficient inference): https://github.com/siboehm/lleaves
Hummingbird (model compiler into tensor computations): https://github.com/microsoft/hummingbird
cuML Forest Inference Library (GPU-accelerated inference): https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml
daal4py (Intel CPU-accelerated inference): https://github.com/intel/scikit-learn-intelex/tree/master/daal4py
m2cgen (model appliers for various languages): https://github.com/BayesWitnesses/m2cgen
leaves (Go model applier): https://github.com/dmitryikh/leaves
ONNXMLTools (ONNX converter): https://github.com/onnx/onnxmltools
SHAP (model output explainer): https://github.com/slundberg/shap
Shapash (model visualization and interpretation): https://github.com/MAIF/shapash
dtreeviz (decision tree visualization and model interpretation): https://github.com/parrt/dtreeviz
SynapseML (LightGBM on Spark): https://github.com/microsoft/SynapseML
Kubeflow Fairing (LightGBM on Kubernetes): https://github.com/kubeflow/fairing
Kubeflow Operator (LightGBM on Kubernetes): https://github.com/kubeflow/xgboost-operator
lightgbm_ray (LightGBM on Ray): https://github.com/ray-project/lightgbm_ray
Mars (LightGBM on Mars): https://github.com/mars-project/mars
ML.NET (.NET/C#-package): https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning
LightGBM.NET (.NET/C#-package): https://github.com/rca22/LightGBM.Net
Ruby gem: https://github.com/ankane/lightgbm-ruby
LightGBM4j (Java high-level binding): https://github.com/metarank/lightgbm4j
lightgbm-rs (Rust binding): https://github.com/vaaaaanquish/lightgbm-rs
MLflow (experiment tracking, model monitoring framework): https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow
`{bonsai}` (R `{parsnip}`-compliant interface): https://github.com/tidymodels/bonsai
`{mlr3extralearners}` (R `{mlr3}`-compliant interface): https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3extralearners
lightgbm-transform (feature transformation binding): https://github.com/microsoft/lightgbm-transform
`postgresml` (LightGBM training and prediction in SQL, via a Postgres extension): https://github.com/postgresml/postgresml
`vaex-ml` (Python DataFrame library with its own interface to LightGBM): https://github.com/vaexio/vaex
Support
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- Ask a question [on Stack Overflow with the `lightgbm` tag](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=lightgbm), we monitor this for new questions.
- Open **bug reports** and **feature requests** on [GitHub issues](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/issues).
How to Contribute
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Check [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) page.
Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct
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This project has adopted the [Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/). For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/faq/) or contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with any additional questions or comments.
Reference Papers
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Yu Shi, Guolin Ke, Zhuoming Chen, Shuxin Zheng, Tie-Yan Liu. "Quantized Training of Gradient Boosting Decision Trees" ([link](https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/77911ed9e6e864ca1a3d165b2c3cb258-Abstract.html)). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022), pp. 18822-18833.
Guolin Ke, Qi Meng, Thomas Finley, Taifeng Wang, Wei Chen, Weidong Ma, Qiwei Ye, Tie-Yan Liu. "[LightGBM: A Highly Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree](https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6907-lightgbm-a-highly-efficient-gradient-boosting-decision-tree)". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), pp. 3149-3157.
Qi Meng, Guolin Ke, Taifeng Wang, Wei Chen, Qiwei Ye, Zhi-Ming Ma, Tie-Yan Liu. "[A Communication-Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Decision Tree](http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6380-a-communication-efficient-parallel-algorithm-for-decision-tree)". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29 (NIPS 2016), pp. 1279-1287.
Huan Zhang, Si Si and Cho-Jui Hsieh. "[GPU Acceleration for Large-scale Tree Boosting](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08359)". SysML Conference, 2018.
License
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This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/LICENSE) for additional details.