# LightGBM

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T20:57:43.646Z
> Type: glossary
> Category: makine-ogrenmesi
**TLDR:** A tree-based method that delivers fast and efficient boosting performance on large-scale tabular problems.

<p>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.</p>