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// ◇ Classical Machine Learning

LightGBM

Gradient boosting accelerated by histograms and leaf-wise growth.

2017 Foundational extended

Original paper ↓ What to learn first →

IN PLAIN WORDS

Bins features into histograms, samples by gradient size (GOSS) and bundles exclusive features (EFB), cutting time and memory.

Used in: Large-scale tabular learning, ranking

TIMELINE · prerequisites → this → what builds on it

2001 Gradient Boos…2017 LightGBM

01Original paper

LightGBM: A Highly Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree

Ke et al. · NeurIPS 2017 · 2017

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02Where it sits

Learn the left column first; the right column builds on this one.

Learn first

LightGBM

Then you can learn

  • Nothing in the atlas builds on it yet

Related:XGBoost

Gradient Boosti…XGBoost LightGBM

Left: prerequisites · right: builds on this · dashed: related. Full map →

03Learning resources

Official docs, explainers, courses and reference code. All links checked.

Official docs

Reference code

04Where the course teaches it

U21 Trees & Ensembles Decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, XGBoost/LightGBM — the kings of tabular data. 8 h6 algorithms3 papers
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