PyRank
microsoft

lightgbm

A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (microsoft/LightGBM) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
664.7K
Week
4.0M
Month
16.2M
Stars
18.4K
Forks
4.0K
Issues
441
Version
4.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
89
Adoption
80
Community
90
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
16,179,573
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
16,179,573
Stars
18,373
Stars per 1k downloads
1.14
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
574,529
Month daily avg
539,319
Momentum
+6.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
461 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
4.1
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
• Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
343
Monthly downloads
16,179,573
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
76
 
Issue Burden
24.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
457d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 397.4K
Windows 8.8K
macOS 5.2K

Python Versions

3.12
27.1% 101.7K
3.11
26.3% 98.4K
3.10
24.6% 92.2K
3.9
17.5% 65.7K
3.13
4.4% 16.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
291.5K
2. IE IE
27.9K
3. IN IN
13.6K
4. NL NL
12.2K
5. DE DE
9.6K
6. JP JP
9.1K
7. GB GB
7.7K
8. AU AU
5.1K
9. SG SG
4.2K
10. BE BE
3.7K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
June 20, 2017
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
4.6.0
Total Releases
37
Contributors
343
Open PRs
69
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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