To cite package ‘lightgbm’ in publications use:

Shi Y, Ke G, Soukhavong D, Lamb J, Meng Q, Finley T, Wang T, Chen W, Ma W, Ye Q, Liu T, Titov N, Cortes D (2025). lightgbm: Light Gradient Boosting Machine. R package version 4.6.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lightgbm.

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Manual{,
    title = {lightgbm: Light Gradient Boosting Machine},
    author = {Yu Shi and Guolin Ke and Damien Soukhavong and James Lamb
      and Qi Meng and Thomas Finley and Taifeng Wang and Wei Chen and
      Weidong Ma and Qiwei Ye and Tie-Yan Liu and Nikita Titov and
      David Cortes},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 4.6.0},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lightgbm},
  }