AMD ROCm Finance 26.01 release notes

AMD ROCm Finance 26.01 release notes#

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Applies to Linux

This release introduces the popular XGBoost library to the ROCm-Finance toolkit, enhancing machine learning capabilites for financial workloads.

Release highlights#

XGBoost is fully accelerated on AMD Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs (gfx942) through ROCm 7.1.1, 7.0.2, or 6.4.4. This integration optimizes kernels, improves memory management, and enables seamless multi-GPU scaling on supported AMD GPUs.

Key benefits of this integration include:

  • Hardware acceleration: Parallelizes split-finding on the GPU to deliver significant performance gains over CPU-only baselines.

  • Financial risk optimization: Accelerates large-scale tasks such as credit risk scoring, fraud detection, and loan default modeling.

  • Compliance and precision: Increases throughput while maintaining the native robustness (L1/L2 regularization) and missing value handling of XGBoost.

Note

ROCm-Finance libraries introduced in the 25.11 release, LightGBM and ThunderGBM, are currently only supported on MI300X GPUs, and ROCm 7.0.2 and 6.4.4.

Supported platforms#

To learn about hardware and software environment requirements, see the ROCm-Finance compatibility matrix and the ROCm-Finance installation prerequisites.

ROCm-Finance components#

Component

Version

Source

XGBoost

3.1.1

LightGBM

4.6.0.99

ThunderGBM

0.3.16