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Financial risk models

Recommendation engines

Ad targeting scoring systems

Kaggle competition solutions

Enterprise ML consulting

Better distributed training and multi-node support

Enhanced GPU optimization

Integration with deep learning frameworks

Improved categorical feature handling

Easier interpretability and visualization tools

Extremely small datasets (overfitting risk)

Text, image, or unstructured data without preprocessing

When interpretability is more important than accuracy

GPU not available for extremely large datasets

Highly imbalanced datasets without sampling or weighting

LightGBM is a high-performance gradient boosting framework.

Optimized for speed, memory efficiency, and large datasets.

Supports classification, regression, and ranking tasks.

Integrates easily with Python ML workflows.

Widely used in industry, competitions, and large-scale tabular ML.

Is LightGBM free?

Yes - open-source under MIT license.

Which languages are supported?

Python, R, CLI, C++ interface.

Can LightGBM handle large datasets?

Yes, optimized for millions of rows and features.

Does LightGBM support GPU?

Yes, optional via CUDA-enabled GPU training.

Is LightGBM suitable for ranking?

Yes - built-in ranking objective for learning-to-rank tasks.