How to use objective and evaluation in lightgbm

lightgbm_objective

import lightgbm

********* Sklearn API **********
# default lightgbm model with sklearn api
gbm = lightgbm.LGBMRegressor() 

# updating objective function to custom
# default is "regression"
# also adding metrics to check different scores
gbm.set_params(**{'objective': custom_asymmetric_train}, metrics = ["mse", 'mae'])

# fitting model 
gbm.fit(
    X_train,
    y_train,
    eval_set=[(X_valid, y_valid)],
    eval_metric=custom_asymmetric_valid,
    verbose=False,
)

y_pred = gbm.predict(X_valid)

********* Python API **********
# create dataset for lightgbm
# if you want to re-use data, remember to set free_raw_data=False
lgb_train = lgb.Dataset(X_train, y_train, free_raw_data=False)
lgb_eval = lgb.Dataset(X_valid, y_valid, reference=lgb_train, free_raw_data=False)

# specify your configurations as a dict
params = {
    'objective': 'regression',
    'verbose': 0
}

gbm = lgb.train(params,
                lgb_train,
                num_boost_round=10,
                init_model=gbm,
                fobj=custom_asymmetric_train,
                feval=custom_asymmetric_valid,
                valid_sets=lgb_eval)
                
y_pred = gbm.predict(X_valid)

Hi, Thanks for sharing but your code for Python API doesn't work. According to the LightGBM documentation, The customized objective and evaluation functions (fobj and feval) have to accept two variables (in order): prediction and training_dataset. So you need to modify the head of those function to

def custom_asymmetric_valid(y_pred, dataset_true):
    y_true = dataset_true.get_label()
    ...