lightgbm-org/LightGBM — A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting

[!NOTE] This project moved from Microsoft/LightGBM to lightgbm-org/LightGBM in March 2026. This repository is still the official LightGBM source code, managed by the same maintainers (including the creator of LightGBM). For details, see https://github.com/lightgbm-org/LightGBM/issues/7187

Light Gradient Boosting Machine

LightGBM is a gradient boosting framework that uses tree based learning algorithms. It is designed to be distributed and efficient with the following advantages:

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Light Gradient Boosting Machine