Examples
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You can learn how to use LightGBM by these examples.

Comments in configuration files might be outdated. Actual information about parameters always can be found [here](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/docs/Parameters.rst).

Machine Learning Challenge Winning Solutions
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**LightGBM is used in many winning solutions, but this table is updated very infrequently.**

| Place         | Competition   | Solution  | Date |
| ------------- |:------------- | --------- | -----|
| 3rd     | [RSNA Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/rsna-intracranial-hemorrhage-detection) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/rsna-intracranial-hemorrhage-detection/discussion/117223#latest-673643) | 2019.11 |
| 1st     | [IEEE-CIS Fraud Detection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ieee-fraud-detection) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ieee-fraud-detection/discussion/111308) | 2019.10 |
| 2nd     | [IEEE-CIS Fraud Detection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ieee-fraud-detection) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ieee-fraud-detection/discussion/111321) | 2019.10 |
| 2nd     | [Kuzushiji Recognition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/kuzushiji-recognition) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/kuzushiji-recognition/discussion/112712) | 2019.10 |
| 1st     | [Los Alamos National Laboratory Earthquake Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/LANL-Earthquake-Prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/LANL-Earthquake-Prediction/discussion/94390#latest-632778) | 2019.6 |
| 3rd     | [Los Alamos National Laboratory Earthquake Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/LANL-Earthquake-Prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/LANL-Earthquake-Prediction/discussion/94459) | 2019.6 |
| 1st     | [Santander Customer Transaction Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-customer-transaction-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-customer-transaction-prediction/discussion/89003#latest-678843) | 2019.4 |
| 2nd     | [Santander Customer Transaction Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-customer-transaction-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-customer-transaction-prediction/discussion/88939) | 2019.4 |
| 3rd     | [Santander Customer Transaction Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-customer-transaction-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-customer-transaction-prediction/discussion/88902) | 2019.4 |
| 2nd     | [PetFinder.my Adoption Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/petfinder-adoption-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/petfinder-adoption-prediction/discussion/88773#latest-512090) | 2019.4 |
| 1st     | [Google Analytics Customer Revenue Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/82614#latest-482575) | 2019.3  |
| 1st     | [VSB Power Line Fault Detection](https://www.kaggle.com/c/vsb-power-line-fault-detection) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/vsb-power-line-fault-detection/discussion/87038#latest-521846) | 2019.3 |
| 5th     | [Elo Merchant Category Recommendation](https://www.kaggle.com/c/elo-merchant-category-recommendation) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/82314#latest-525737) | 2019.2 |
| 2nd     | [PLAsTiCC Astronomical Classification](https://www.kaggle.com/c/PLAsTiCC-2018) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/PLAsTiCC-2018/discussion/75059#latest-462457) | 2018.12 | 
| 1st     | [Google Research Doodle Recognition Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/quickdraw-doodle-recognition) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/quickdraw-doodle-recognition/discussion/73738#latest-550028) | 2018.12 |
| 1st     | [Home Credit Group Home Credit Default Risk](https://www.kaggle.com/c/home-credit-default-risk) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/home-credit-default-risk/discussion/64480#latest-514514) | 2018.8 |
| 2nd     | [Home Credit Group Home Credit Default Risk](https://www.kaggle.com/c/home-credit-default-risk) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/home-credit-default-risk/discussion/64722#latest-394948) | 2018.8 |
| 3rd     | [Home Credit Group Home Credit Default Risk](https://www.kaggle.com/c/home-credit-default-risk) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/home-credit-default-risk/discussion/64596#latest-420333) | 2018.8 |
| 2nd     | [Google AI Open Images - Visual Relationship Track](https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-ai-open-images-visual-relationship-track) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-ai-open-images-visual-relationship-track/discussion/64651) | 2018.8 |
| 2nd     | [Santander Value Prediction Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-value-prediction-challenge) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/santander-value-prediction-challenge/discussion/63848#latest-374826) | 2018.8 |
| 1st     | [Avito Demand Prediction Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/59880#latest-450523) | 2018.6 |
| 2nd     | [Avito Demand Prediction Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/59871#latest-470807) | 2018.6 |
| 3rd     | [Avito Demand Prediction Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/59885#latest-364403) | 2018.6 |
| 1st     | [TalkingData AdTracking Fraud Detection Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/talkingdata-adtracking-fraud-detection) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/talkingdata-adtracking-fraud-detection/discussion/56475)| 2018.5 |
| 1st     | [DonorsChoose.org Application Screening](https://www.kaggle.com/c/donorschoose-application-screening)| [link](https://www.kaggle.com/shadowwarrior/1st-place-solution/notebook) | 2018.4 | 
| 1st     | [Toxic Comment Classification Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-toxic-comment-classification-challenge)| [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-toxic-comment-classification-challenge/discussion/52557) | 2018.3 |
| 1st     | [Mercari Price Suggestion Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/mercari-price-suggestion-challenge) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/mercari-price-suggestion-challenge/discussion/50256) | 2018.2 |
| 1st     | [IEEE's Signal Processing Society, Camera Model Identification](https://www.kaggle.com/c/sp-society-camera-model-identification)| [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/sp-society-camera-model-identification/discussion/49367) | 2018.2 | 
| 1st     | [Recruit Restaurant Visitor Forecasting](https://www.kaggle.com/c/recruit-restaurant-visitor-forecasting) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/pureheart/1st-place-lgb-model-public-0-470-private-0-502/comments) | 2018.2| 
| 1st     | [WSDM CUP 2018 - KKBox's Music Recommendation Challenge](https://www.kaggle.com/c/kkbox-music-recommendation-challenge) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/kkbox-music-recommendation-challenge/discussion/45942) | 2017.12 |
| 1st     | [Porto Seguro’s Safe Driver Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/porto-seguro-safe-driver-prediction) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/porto-seguro-safe-driver-prediction/discussion/44629) |2017.11 |
| 1st     | [Quora Question Pairs](https://www.kaggle.com/c/quora-question-pairs) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/quora-question-pairs/discussion/34355) | 2017.6 |
| 1st     | [Two Sigma Connect: Rental Listing Inquiries](https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-connect-rental-listing-inquiries) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-connect-rental-listing-inquiries/discussion/32163) | 2017.4 |
| 1st     | [CIKM2017 AnalytiCup - Lazada Product Title Quality Challenge](http://cikm2017.org/CIKM_AnalytiCup_task3.html) | [link](http://cikm2017.org/download/analytiCup/session3/CIKMAnalytiCup2017_LazadaProductTitleQuality_T3.pdf) | 2017.9 |
| 2nd     | [Two Sigma Connect: Rental Listing Inquiries](https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-connect-rental-listing-inquiries) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-connect-rental-listing-inquiries/discussion/32148) | 2017.4 |
| 3rd     | [Two Sigma Connect: Rental Listing Inquiries](https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-connect-rental-listing-inquiries) | [link](https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-connect-rental-listing-inquiries/discussion/32123) | 2017.4 |
| 3rd     | [Dogs vs. Cats Redux: Kernels Edition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats-redux-kernels-edition) | [link](http://blog.kaggle.com/2017/04/20/dogs-vs-cats-redux-playground-competition-3rd-place-interview-marco-lugo) | - |
| 3rd     | [Bosch Production Line Performance](https://www.kaggle.com/c/bosch-production-line-performance) | [link](http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/12/15/bosch-production-line-performance-competition-winners-interview-3rd-place-team-data-property-avengers-darragh-marios-mathias-stanislav) | 2016.11 |
| 1st     | [The 1st Di-Tech Competitions](http://research.xiaojukeji.com/competition/main.action?competitionId=DiTech2016) | - | 2016.7 |
