Introduction
When someone starts with Machine Learning he usually starts to build some simple models as logistic regression, naive Bayes, linear regression etc. And those alone are already enough for most use cases, as their simplicity is productivity-friendly and comes up with adequate accuracy. However, in enterprise level, accuracy can be important for a lot of reasons. Gradient Boosting Machines are some algorithms which outperform the aforementioned methods and are not complex enough to use them. Of course, before we build the model with (e.g. tidymodels) we have to install them.
Thus, on this article I gather all that information.
Installation Guides | Source |
---|---|
LightGBM | Link |
CatBoost | Link |
XGBoost | Link |
LightGBM
Option 1. Install R Package
If you are reading this blog, the most possible scenario in that you are using R too. The most easy way to install the corresponding R package :
R code
<- Sys.time()
start_time_lightgbm install.packages("lightgbm", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org")
<- Sys.time() end_time_lightgbm
Option 2. CMAKE
The LightGBM documentation are referring to this method of installation.
Terminal
sudo apt install cmake
Terminal
git clone --recursive https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM
cd LightGBM
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4
CatBoost
Their realeases.
R code
install.packages("devtools")
On my occassion, when I tried to install devtools
had an error status. According to my error status I had to add packages libharfbuzz-dev
and libfribidi-dev
. After that, my devtools installation completed without errors.
R code
<- Sys.time()
start_time_catboost ::install_url("https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v1.1.1/catboost-R-Linux-1.1.1.tgz"[, INSTALL_opts = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load")])
devtools<- Sys.time() end_time_catboost
XGBoost
R code
<- Sys.time()
start_time_xgboost install.packages("xgboost")
<- Sys.time() end_time_xgboost
Summary
ML Model | Method | Installation time |
---|---|---|
LightGBM | R package | 7.79 min. |
CatBoost | R package (w/o devtools) | 2.1 min. |
XGBoost | R package | 6.16 min. |
Citation
@online{2022,
author = {, stesiam},
title = {Install {LightGBM} and {CatBoost} on {Ubuntu} 22.04},
date = {2022-11-13},
url = {https://stesiam.com/posts/2022-11-13-Install-LightGBM-CatBoost-Ubuntu/},
langid = {en}
}