Alternatives

LightGBM alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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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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#1

Xgboost

Similarity 149Trust 90Excellent 100

Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow

28K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add dmlc/xgboost
#2

Tensorflow

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

196K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add tensorflow/tensorflow
#3

H2o 3

Similarity 132Trust 89Excellent 100

H2O is an Open Source, Distributed, Fast & Scalable Machine Learning Platform: Deep Learning, Gradient Boosting (GBM) & XGBoost, Random Forest, Generalized Linear Modeling (GLM with Elastic Net), K-Means, PCA, Generalized Additive Models (GAM), RuleFit, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Stacked Ensembles, Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML), etc.

7.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add h2oai/h2o-3
#4

Catboost

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library, used for ranking, classification, regression and other machine learning tasks for Python, R, Java, C++. Supports computation on CPU and GPU.

9.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add catboost/catboost
#5

Ray

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.

43K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ray-project/ray
#6

Handson Ml

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 100

⛔️ DEPRECATED – See https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml3 or handson-mlp instead.

26K starsMay 19, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ageron/handson-ml
#7

Shap

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

A game theoretic approach to explain the output of any machine learning model.

26K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add shap/shap
#8

Optuna

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

A hyperparameter optimization framework

14K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add optuna/optuna
#9

Pyod

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 100

A Python library for anomaly detection across tabular, time series, graph, text, and image data. 60+ detectors, benchmark-backed ADEngine orchestration, and an agentic workflow for AI agents.

9.9K starsJun 5, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add yzhao062/pyod
#10

Mediapipe

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media.

36K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add google-ai-edge/mediapipe
#11

Sktime

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 100

A unified framework for machine learning with time series

9.8K starsJun 11, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add sktime/sktime
#12

Paddle

Similarity 124Trust 89Excellent 100

PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning: Machine Learning Framework from Industrial Practice (『飞桨』核心框架,深度学习&机器学习高性能单机、分布式训练和跨平台部署)

24K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/Paddle
#13

Onnxruntime

Similarity 124Trust 90Excellent 100

ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add microsoft/onnxruntime
#14

MNN

Similarity 124Trust 90Excellent 100

MNN: A blazing-fast, lightweight inference engine battle-tested by Alibaba, powering high-performance on-device LLMs and Edge AI.

15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add alibaba/MNN
#15

Dlib

Similarity 124Trust 90Excellent 100

A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

14K starsMay 7, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add davisking/dlib
#16

Ggml

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

Tensor library for machine learning

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add ggml-org/ggml

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