Compara mètodes

	CatBoost	LightGBM	Impuls de gradient regularitzat
Camp	Aprenentatge automàtic	Aprenentatge automàtic	Aprenentatge automàtic
Família	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Any d'origen	2018	2017	2001 (gradient boosting); 2016 (explicit L1/L2 regularization in XGBoost)
Autor original	Prokhorenkova, L. et al. (Yandex)	Ke, G. et al. (Microsoft)	Chen, T. & Guestrin, C. (building on Friedman, J. H.)
Tipus	Gradient boosting on decision trees	Gradient boosting decision tree ensemble	Regularized ensemble (additive tree model)
Font seminal	Prokhorenkova, L., Gusev, G., Vorobev, A., Dorogush, A.V. & Gulin, A. (2018). CatBoost: Unbiased Boosting with Categorical Features. In NeurIPS 2018.	Ke, G., Meng, Q., Finley, T., Wang, T., Chen, W., Ma, W., Ye, Q. & Liu, T.-Y. (2017). LightGBM: A Highly Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 30, 3146–3154.	Chen, T. & Guestrin, C. (2016). XGBoost: A scalable tree boosting system. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 785–794.
Àlies	CatBoost (Categorical Boosting), categorical boosting, ordered boosting, kategorik gradyan artırma	LightGBM, Light Gradient Boosting Machine, lgbm, leaf-wise gradient boosting	penalized gradient boosting, shrinkage-regularized boosting, XGBoost-style regularization, L1/L2 gradient boosting
Relacionats	5	5	6
Resum	CatBoost is a gradient boosting algorithm, introduced by Prokhorenkova and colleagues at Yandex in 2018, that handles categorical variables natively and uses ordered target encoding to avoid label leakage. By building an additive ensemble of trees while permuting the data order at each iteration, it is often superior to XGBoost and LightGBM on category-heavy data.	LightGBM is Microsoft's gradient boosting decision tree implementation, introduced by Ke and colleagues in 2017, that grows trees leaf-wise and bins features into histograms for speed. On large datasets it is much faster than XGBoost while retaining strong predictive accuracy.	Regularized gradient boosting extends the classic additive tree ensemble (Friedman 2001) by embedding L1 and L2 penalty terms directly into the training objective, along with a complexity penalty on tree size. Popularized by XGBoost (Chen & Guestrin 2016), this framework reduces overfitting and improves generalization compared to unpenalized boosting, while retaining the method's characteristic accuracy on tabular data.