Simple interface for training a LightGBM model.

lightgbm(
data,
label = NULL,
weights = NULL,
params = list(),
nrounds = 100L,
verbose = 1L,
eval_freq = 1L,
early_stopping_rounds = NULL,
init_model = NULL,
callbacks = list(),
serializable = TRUE,
objective = "regression",
init_score = NULL,
...
)

## Arguments

data a lgb.Dataset object, used for training. Some functions, such as lgb.cv, may allow you to pass other types of data like matrix and then separately supply label as a keyword argument. Vector of labels, used if data is not an lgb.Dataset Sample / observation weights for rows in the input data. If NULL, will assume that all observations / rows have the same importance / weight. a list of parameters. See the "Parameters" section of the documentation for a list of parameters and valid values. number of training rounds verbosity for output, if <= 0 and valids has been provided, also will disable the printing of evaluation during training evaluation output frequency, only effective when verbose > 0 and valids has been provided int. Activates early stopping. When this parameter is non-null, training will stop if the evaluation of any metric on any validation set fails to improve for early_stopping_rounds consecutive boosting rounds. If training stops early, the returned model will have attribute best_iter set to the iteration number of the best iteration. path of model file of lgb.Booster object, will continue training from this model List of callback functions that are applied at each iteration. whether to make the resulting objects serializable through functions such as save or saveRDS (see section "Model serialization"). Optimization objective (e.g. "regression", "binary", etc.). For a list of accepted objectives, see the "objective" item of the "Parameters" section of the documentation. initial score is the base prediction lightgbm will boost from Number of parallel threads to use. For best speed, this should be set to the number of physical cores in the CPU - in a typical x86-64 machine, this corresponds to half the number of maximum threads. Be aware that using too many threads can result in speed degradation in smaller datasets (see the parameters documentation for more details). If passing zero, will use the default number of threads configured for OpenMP (typically controlled through an environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS). If passing NULL (the default), will try to use the number of physical cores in the system, but be aware that getting the number of cores detected correctly requires package RhpcBLASctl to be installed. This parameter gets overriden by num_threads and its aliases under params if passed there. Additional arguments passed to lgb.train. For example valids: a list of lgb.Dataset objects, used for validation obj: objective function, can be character or custom objective function. Examples include regression, regression_l1, huber, binary, lambdarank, multiclass, multiclass eval: evaluation function, can be (a list of) character or custom eval function record: Boolean, TRUE will record iteration message to booster\$record_evals colnames: feature names, if not null, will use this to overwrite the names in dataset categorical_feature: categorical features. This can either be a character vector of feature names or an integer vector with the indices of the features (e.g. c(1L, 10L) to say "the first and tenth columns"). reset_data: Boolean, setting it to TRUE (not the default value) will transform the booster model into a predictor model which frees up memory and the original datasets

## Value

a trained lgb.Booster

## Early Stopping

"early stopping" refers to stopping the training process if the model's performance on a given validation set does not improve for several consecutive iterations.

If multiple arguments are given to eval, their order will be preserved. If you enable early stopping by setting early_stopping_rounds in params, by default all metrics will be considered for early stopping.

If you want to only consider the first metric for early stopping, pass first_metric_only = TRUE in params. Note that if you also specify metric in params, that metric will be considered the "first" one. If you omit metric, a default metric will be used based on your choice for the parameter obj (keyword argument) or objective (passed into params).