How to Develop a Light Gradient Boosted Machine (LightGBM) Ensemble - DLTK.AI

Light Gradient Boosted Machine, or LightGBM for short, is an efficient and effective implementation of the gradient boosting algorithm. LightGBM extends the gradient boosting algorithm by adding a type of automatic feature selection as well as focusing on boosting examples with larger gradients. This can result in a dramatic speedup of training and improved predictive performance. As such, LightGBM has become a de facto algorithm for machine learning competitions when working with tabular data for regression and classification predictive modeling tasks. As such, it owns a share of the blame for the increased popularity and wider adoption of gradient boosting methods in general, along with Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost).