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Comments in configuration files might be outdated.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 the most winning solutions, so we do not update this table anymore.**

| Place         | Competition   | Solution  | Date |
| ------------- |:------------- | --------- | -----|
| 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 |