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	Gradient Boosting	LightGBM	Gradient Boosting Regolarizzato
Campo	Apprendimento automatico	Apprendimento automatico	Apprendimento automatico
Famiglia	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anno di origine	2001	2017	2001 (gradient boosting); 2016 (explicit L1/L2 regularization in XGBoost)
Ideatore	Friedman, J. H.	Ke, G. et al. (Microsoft)	Chen, T. & Guestrin, C. (building on Friedman, J. H.)
Tipo	Ensemble (sequential boosting of decision trees)	Gradient boosting decision tree ensemble	Regularized ensemble (additive tree model)
Fonte seminale	Friedman, J. H. (2001). Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine. Annals of Statistics, 29(5), 1189–1232.	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.
Alias	Gradient Boosting (GBM), GBM, gradient boosted trees, gradient boosting machine	LightGBM, Light Gradient Boosting Machine, lgbm, leaf-wise gradient boosting	penalized gradient boosting, shrinkage-regularized boosting, XGBoost-style regularization, L1/L2 gradient boosting
Correlati	5	5	6
Sintesi	Gradient Boosting is an ensemble learning method, formalised by Jerome H. Friedman in 2001, that combines a sequence of weak learners — typically shallow decision trees — so that each new tree is fitted to minimise the residual errors of the trees before it. It is the core algorithm behind popular implementations such as XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost.	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.