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02/20/2017 : Update to LightGBM v2. Add two new features: Gradient-based One-Side Sampling(GOSS) and Exclusive Feature Bundling(EFB). With GOSS and EFB, LightGBM can further speed up the training. Details are avaliable in [Features](https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/wiki/Features).
01/08/2017 : Release [**R-package**](./R-package) beta version, welcome to have a try and provide feedback.
01/08/2017 : Release [**R-package**](./R-package) beta version, welcome to have a try and provide feedback.
12/05/2016 : [deprecated in v2]**Categorical Features as input directly**(without one-hot coding). Experiment on [Expo data](http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/) shows about 8x speed-up with same accuracy compared with one-hot coding (refer to [categorical log](https://github.com/guolinke/boosting_tree_benchmarks/blob/master/lightgbm/lightgbm_dataexpo_speed.log) and [one-hot log](https://github.com/guolinke/boosting_tree_benchmarks/blob/master/lightgbm/lightgbm_dataexpo_onehot_speed.log)).
12/05/2016 : [deprecated in v2]**Categorical Features as input directly**(without one-hot coding). Experiment on [Expo data](http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/) shows about 8x speed-up with same accuracy compared with one-hot coding (refer to [categorical log](https://github.com/guolinke/boosting_tree_benchmarks/blob/master/lightgbm/lightgbm_dataexpo_speed.log) and [one-hot log](https://github.com/guolinke/boosting_tree_benchmarks/blob/master/lightgbm/lightgbm_dataexpo_onehot_speed.log)).