LightGBM: A Light Gradient Boosting Machine

Today, Data Science is known to be one among the fastest growing fields in the world. Every day there is a launch of some or the other new algorithm, some of which fail and some achieve success. Today, we will discuss one of the most successful machine learning algorithm, Light GBM. Before moving ahead, What actually is LightGBM? LightGBM is a fast, distributed as well as high-performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework that makes the use of a learning algorithm that is tree-based, and is used for ranking, classification as well as many other machine learning tasks.