James Lamb

I don't understand what you're suggesting, sorry. If you have a Windows developmeny environment, it'd be helpful if you could try to reproduce this error and then try out your...

> *suggested enforcing a compiler check and ensuring that components from there only are loaded.* Sure but what is "a compiler check"? Is that R code, CMake, preprocessor definitions in...

> Are we using some way to detect what compiler is being used? At this point, I encourage you to clone the repo and look around in the code yourself....

Thanks for using LightGBM, and for your interest in improving model inspection! I'm not convinced that this is so generically useful that it should be in `lightgbm` directly, with all...

Based on https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/drivers/index.html#cuda-drivers, I think we want R535 (the latest long-term support release).

I'll try to contact @shiyu1994 in the maintainer Slack.

> @jameslamb Did you succeed? 👼 No, I haven't been able to reach @shiyu1994 in the last 2 months. @shiyu1994 since I do see you're active here (#6623), could you...

Thank you!!

Yes good point! We could also maybe explore what `xgboost` does, relying on the NCCL wheels that NVIDIA publishes: * https://pypi.org/project/nvidia-nccl-cu12/ * https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/9442 * https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/9796

Still not certain what the root cause is, but @StrikerRUS I found that switching from `mamba` to `conda` can fix it: #6663