LightGBM

Stub. Created as a placeholder — expand with vault-sourced content.

What it is

Microsoft’s gradient-boosted decision tree library. Its lambdarank objective implements LambdaMART, making it a common choice for feature-based LTR rerankers. Exposes ndcg_eval_at and uses the Burges (exponential-gain) NDCG variant by default.

Vault references (existing coverage)

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