James Lamb

Sorry for the long delay. I'm ready to help get this merged. I received + accepted the invitation to your fork, and am able to push to it. Thanks for...

/gha run r-valgrind Workflow **R valgrind tests** has been triggered! 🚀 https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/actions/runs/3231319391 Status: success ✔️.

I just pushed https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/pull/5434/commits/7e32261db0ae075df25495ecead6d9da7afbeee8, adding a unit test. That test segfaults on `master` and passes on this branch. Since I now have a commit on this PR, my approval shouldn't...

@EdmondElephant can you please add a comment here like this? ```text @microsoft-github-policy-service agree ``` Sorry, but it seems that Microsoft may have recently changed the way that it asks contributors...

@EdmondElephant are you interested in continuing this contribution? If so, please leave a comment agreeing to the CLA (https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/pull/5434#issuecomment-1275518491). After you've done that, I can update this branch to latest...

Thanks very much for the report! Since you've created an example that reproduces the error in your environment, could you try upgrading to the latest `lightgbm` built from source and...

Thanks for the links, and sorry for the inconvenience! I have been interested for a while in the idea of switching this project's wheels to `cibuildwheel` + `scikit-build`, for other...

Thanks for using LightGBM. Can you tell us what the real-world meaning of your labels are? Like for example, what is the difference between `y=0.34` and `y=3`? Depending on your...

It's hard for me to reconcile these two statements: * "only the ordering matters" * "I want the model to learn what makes document A have a score of 0.9...

> I am just using a normalized score to tell the ltr model that document A is in fact more relevant than document B If that's the case, then couldn't...