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\name{lightgbm}
\alias{lightgbm}
\title{Train a LightGBM model}
\usage{
lightgbm(
  data,
  label = NULL,
  weight = NULL,
  params = list(),
  nrounds = 100L,
  verbose = 1L,
  eval_freq = 1L,
  early_stopping_rounds = NULL,
  save_name = "lightgbm.model",
  init_model = NULL,
  callbacks = list(),
  ...
)
}
\arguments{
\item{data}{a \code{lgb.Dataset} object, used for training. Some functions, such as \code{\link{lgb.cv}},
may allow you to pass other types of data like \code{matrix} and then separately supply
\code{label} as a keyword argument.}

\item{label}{Vector of labels, used if \code{data} is not an \code{\link{lgb.Dataset}}}

\item{weight}{vector of response values. If not NULL, will set to dataset}

\item{params}{a list of parameters. See \href{https://lightgbm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Parameters.html}{
the "Parameters" section of the documentation} for a list of parameters and valid values.}

\item{nrounds}{number of training rounds}

\item{verbose}{verbosity for output, if <= 0, also will disable the print of evaluation during training}

\item{eval_freq}{evaluation output frequency, only effect when verbose > 0}

\item{early_stopping_rounds}{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 \code{early_stopping_rounds} consecutive boosting rounds.
If training stops early, the returned model will have attribute \code{best_iter}
set to the iteration number of the best iteration.}

\item{save_name}{File name to use when writing the trained model to disk. Should end in ".model".}

\item{init_model}{path of model file of \code{lgb.Booster} object, will continue training from this model}

\item{callbacks}{List of callback functions that are applied at each iteration.}

\item{...}{Additional arguments passed to \code{\link{lgb.train}}. For example
\itemize{
   \item{\code{valids}: a list of \code{lgb.Dataset} objects, used for validation}
   \item{\code{obj}: objective function, can be character or custom objective function. Examples include
              \code{regression}, \code{regression_l1}, \code{huber},
               \code{binary}, \code{lambdarank}, \code{multiclass}, \code{multiclass}}
   \item{\code{eval}: evaluation function, can be (a list of) character or custom eval function}
   \item{\code{record}: Boolean, TRUE will record iteration message to \code{booster$record_evals}}
   \item{\code{colnames}: feature names, if not null, will use this to overwrite the names in dataset}
   \item{\code{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. \code{c(1L, 10L)} to
                       say "the first and tenth columns").}
   \item{\code{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}
    \item{\code{boosting}: Boosting type. \code{"gbdt"}, \code{"rf"}, \code{"dart"} or \code{"goss"}.}
    \item{\code{num_leaves}: Maximum number of leaves in one tree.}
    \item{\code{max_depth}: Limit the max depth for tree model. This is used to deal with
                     overfit when #data is small. Tree still grow by leaf-wise.}
     \item{\code{num_threads}: Number of threads for LightGBM. For the best speed, set this to
                        the number of real CPU cores(\code{parallel::detectCores(logical = FALSE)}),
                        not the number of threads (most CPU using hyper-threading to generate 2 threads
                        per CPU core).}
}}
}
\value{
a trained \code{lgb.Booster}
}
\description{
Simple interface for training a LightGBM model.
}
\section{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 \code{eval}, their order will be preserved. If you enable
         early stopping by setting \code{early_stopping_rounds} in \code{params}, by default all
         metrics will be considered for early stopping.

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