getLGBMThreads {lightgbm}

Get default number of threads used by LightGBM

Description

LightGBM attempts to speed up many operations by using multi-threading. The number of threads used in those operations can be controlled via the num_threads parameter passed through params to functions like lgb.train and lgb.Dataset. However, some operations (like materializing a model from a text file) are done via code paths that don't explicitly accept thread-control configuration.

Use this function to see the default number of threads LightGBM will use for such operations.

Usage

getLGBMthreads()

Value

number of threads as an integer. -1 means that in situations where parameter num_threads is not explicitly supplied, LightGBM will choose a number of threads to use automatically.

See Also

setLGBMthreads