XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System, Tianqi Chen, Carlos Guestrin, 2016Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM)DOI: 10.1145/2939672.2939785 - Describes the exact greedy algorithm for split finding, offering a comparison point for LightGBM's approach.
Parameters - LightGBM Documentation, LightGBM Contributors, 2023 - Provides practical details on the max_bin parameter and its influence on performance and accuracy within LightGBM.