Bug#963076: ITP: lightgbm -- It is a gradient boosting framework that uses tree based learning algorithms. It is designed to be distributed and efficient

[Juri Grabowski <debian@jugra.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Juri Grabowski <debian@jugra.de>

* Package name    : lightgbm
  Version         : 2.3.1
  Upstream Author : Guolin Ke <guolin.ke@microsoft.com>
                    Guolin Ke <guolin.ke@outlook.com>
* URL             : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/lightgbm/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C++, python
  Description     : It is a gradient boosting framework that uses tree based learning algorithms. It is designed to be distributed and efficient

Description: It is a gradient boosting framework that uses tree based learning algorithms. It is designed to be distributed and efficient
 with the following advantages
 - Faster training speed and higher efficiency.
 - Lower memory usage.
 - Better accuracy.
 - Support of parallel and GPU learning.
 - Capable of handling large-scale data.

Plan is to maintain it in debian-science-team
Here is Licence:
https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/master/LICENSE