方法对比

	梯度提升（Gradient Boosting）	LightGBM	随机森林	XGBoost
领域	机器学习	机器学习	机器学习	机器学习
方法族	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
起源年份	2001	2017	2001	2016
提出者	Friedman, J. H.	Ke, G. et al. (Microsoft)	Breiman, L.	Chen, T. & Guestrin, C.
类型	Ensemble (sequential boosting of decision trees)	Gradient boosting decision tree ensemble	Ensemble (bagging of decision trees)	Ensemble (gradient-boosted decision trees)
开创性文献	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.	Breiman, L. (2001). Random Forests. Machine Learning, 45, 5–32.	Chen, T. & Guestrin, C. (2016). XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD, 785–794.
别名	Gradient Boosting (GBM), GBM, gradient boosted trees, gradient boosting machine	LightGBM, Light Gradient Boosting Machine, lgbm, leaf-wise gradient boosting	Rastgele Orman (Random Forest), rastgele orman, random decision forest, bagged tree ensemble	XGBoost, extreme gradient boosting, scalable tree boosting
相关	5	5	4	5
摘要	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.	Random Forest is an ensemble learning method, introduced by Leo Breiman in 2001, that grows many decision trees on bootstrap samples of the data and combines their votes to produce strong classification and regression. By pooling many slightly different trees, it produces more accurate and more stable predictions than any single tree.	XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) is a scalable tree-boosting algorithm introduced by Tianqi Chen and Carlos Guestrin in 2016. It builds a strong predictor by adding decision trees one at a time, each correcting the errors left by the trees before it, and is a powerful prediction method widely used in competitions.