LightGBM
by lightgbm-org (organization)
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. (description from the project’s GitHub page)
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- 18,891
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- 4,091
- Open issues and pull requests
- 539
- Primary language
- C++
- License
- MIT License (MIT)
- Owner
- lightgbm-org · Organization
- Created
- Aug 5, 2016
- Last push
- Oct 18, 2026
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