# LightGBM

> An implementation of gradient boosting developed by Microsoft.

An implementation of [gradient boosting](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Gradient%20boosting.txt) developed by [Microsoft](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Microsoft.txt).

> A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on <decision tree> algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other <ML> tasks.

https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM