XGBoost, LightGBM, and Catboost are all used quite frequently in competitions. LightGBM is actually marginally more popular than the other two now, but it's pre

XGBoost, LightGBM, and Catboost are all used quite frequently in competitions. LightGBM is actually marginally more popular than the other two now, but it's pretty close. In the M5 forecasting competition a few years back, many of the top solutions used primarily LightGBM.