What is LightGBM, How to implement it? How to fine tune the parameters?

Pushkar Mandot
8 min readAug 17, 2017

Hello,

Machine Learning is the fastest growing field in the world. Everyday there will be a launch of bunch of new algorithms, some of those fails and some achieve the peak of success. Today, I am touching one of the most successful machine learning algorithm, Light GBM.

What motivated me to write a blog on LightGBM?

While working on kaggle data science competition I came across multiple powerful algorithms. LightGBM is one of those. LightGBM is a relatively…

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