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News
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08/02/2017: **Optimal split for Categorical Features**. Now LightGBM can provide much better accuracy when using categorical features. Compared with one-hot coding, LightGBM's new solution shows a great improvement.

07/13/2017: [Gitter](https://gitter.im/Microsoft/LightGBM) is avaiable.

06/20/2017: Python-package is on PyPI now.
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05/03/2017: LightGBM v2 stable release.

04/10/2017 : LightGBM supports GPU-accelerated tree learning now. Please read our [GPU Tutorial](./docs/GPU-Tutorial.md) and [Performance Comparison](./docs/GPU-Performance.md).
04/10/2017: LightGBM supports GPU-accelerated tree learning now. Please read our [GPU Tutorial](./docs/GPU-Tutorial.md) and [Performance Comparison](./docs/GPU-Performance.md).

02/20/2017 : Update to LightGBM v2.
02/20/2017: Update to LightGBM v2.

02/12/2017: LightGBM v1 stable release.

01/08/2017 : Release [**R-package**](./R-package) beta version, welcome to have a try and provide feedback.
01/08/2017: Release [**R-package**](./R-package) beta version, welcome to have a try and provide feedback.

12/05/2016 : **Categorical Features as input directly**(without one-hot coding). Experiment on [Expo data](http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/) shows about 8x speed-up with same accuracy compared with one-hot coding.
12/05/2016: **Categorical Features as input directly**(without one-hot coding). Experiment on [Expo data](http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/) shows about 8x speed-up with same accuracy compared with one-hot coding.

12/02/2016 : Release [**python-package**](./python-package) beta version, welcome to have a try and provide feedback.
12/02/2016: Release [**python-package**](./python-package) beta version, welcome to have a try and provide feedback.


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LightGBM supports input data file with [CSV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values), [TSV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values) and [LibSVM](https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/) formats.

Label is the data of first column, and there is no header in the file.
Label is the data of first column. (You can also specific label column, weight column and query/group id column. Refer to [io-parameters](./Parameters.md#io-parameters).)

### Categorical feature support

update 12/5/2016:

LightGBM can use categorical feature directly (without one-hot coding). The experiment on [Expo data](http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/) shows about 8x speed-up compared with one-hot coding.

For the setting details, please refer to [Parameters](./Parameters.md#io-parameters).

### Weight and query/group data
LightGBM also support weighted training, it needs an additional [weight data](./Parameters.md#weight-data). And it needs an additional [query data](./Parameters.md#query-data) for ranking task.

update 11/3/2016:

1. support input with header now
2. can specific label column, weight column and query/group id column. Both index and column are supported
3. can specific a list of ignored columns

For the detailed usage, please refer to [Configuration](./Parameters.md#io-parameters).

## Parameter quick look

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