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LightGBM

A tree-based method that delivers fast and efficient boosting performance on large-scale tabular problems.

LightGBM is one of the modern members of the gradient boosting family, especially known for speed and memory efficiency. Through histogram-based learning and leaf-wise tree growth, it can deliver strong performance on large datasets. It is widely used in competitive tabular modeling tasks. However, because leaf-wise growth can increase overfitting risk, appropriate regularization is important.