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 150Trust 98Excellent 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 134Trust 95Excellent 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 134Trust 97Excellent 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

Orange3

Similarity 132Trust 90Excellent 100

🍊 :bar_chart: :bulb: Orange: Interactive data analysis

5.6K starsMay 25, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add biolab/orange3
#5

Catboost

Similarity 132Trust 97Excellent 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
#6

Oneflow

Similarity 129Trust 90Excellent 93

OneFlow is a deep learning framework designed to be user-friendly, scalable and efficient.

9.4K starsDec 4, 2025 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add Oneflow-Inc/oneflow
#7

Ray

Similarity 128Trust 98Excellent 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
#8

Handson Ml

Similarity 128Trust 98Excellent 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
#9

Shap

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 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
#10

Optuna

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

A hyperparameter optimization framework

14K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add optuna/optuna
#11

Pyod

Similarity 126Trust 97Excellent 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
#12

Paddle

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 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

Mediapipe

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 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
#14

Sktime

Similarity 126Trust 94Excellent 100

A unified framework for machine learning with time series

9.8K starsJun 11, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add sktime/sktime
#15

Onnxruntime

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 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
#16

Anomaly Detection Resources

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 100

Anomaly detection related books, papers, videos, and toolboxes. Last update late 2025 for LLM and VLM works!

9.3K starsMar 2, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add yzhao062/anomaly-detection-resources

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