Microsoft Open Sources Gradient Boosting Machine code

Microsoft abandoned their MS Solver Foundation framework, now focusing on machine learning (and R) ?

• https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM
• https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/wiki/Features
• http://www.dmtk.io/

References

1. Alexey Natekin, Alois Knoll, ”Gradient Boosting Machines, A Tutorial”, 1983, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3885826/pdf/fnbot-07-00021.pdf