[Feature]C#/.NET Bindings and Nuget package? about lightgbm HOT 10 CLOSED

Hi there,

I have created a .NET wrapper for LightGBM (including GPU support) based on the executable version of LightGBM.

If interrested, check it out: LightGbmDotNet.

But of course a proper .NET wrapper for LightGBM, maintained by the original team would be even better.

Best regards

Florian

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Sure, please follow the update of this thread.

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Will do!

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When can we expect the C# Nuget package to be finished?

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@ycdoit could you help on creating the PR of Nuget package.

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https://www.nuget.org/packages/LightGBM

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Thanks for providing the nuget package and the excellent work on LightGBM in general!

But IMHO a nuget package that provides an .exe and an unmanaged .dll is not at all what you would wish for as an .NET developer.
You'll hardly find any C# developer that can make use of this nuget package in real life. Creating a .NET wrapper for the natively compiled .dll requires huge efforts and skills rarely found in the .NET development community. Plus knowledge about the original LightGBM sourcecode that most likely won't be found outside the LightGBM team itself.

Anyhow as we don't have anything else at the moment, could you please tell me if the executable delivered in the nuget package is ready to use GPU acceleration?
If yes I would probably consider writing a simple (and probably incomplete) C# wrapper library that calls the executable as a seperate process and exchanges data with it in a file based manner.
Neighter elegant nor satisfiying really, but at least an approach thats managable regarding effort and complexity.

It feels like Microsoft leaves its .NET developer community behind when it comes to machine learning.

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I experimented a bit with creating an executable based wrapper.
I also found out that the .exe in the nuget package is not providing GPU support.
Is there any chance to get a nuget package that contains a GPU ready compiled .exe?

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refer to dotnet/machinelearning#392
LightGBM will be in ML.Net soon.

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