{"id":827,"date":"2009-06-26T20:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T02:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=827"},"modified":"2009-06-26T20:32:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T02:32:43","slug":"netflix-nearly-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Netflix nearly done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $1M qualifying result was achieved on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/\/leaderboard\">public Netflix test set<\/a> by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.att.com\/~volinsky\/netflix\/bpc.html\">3-way ensemble team<\/a>.  This is just in time for <a href=\"http:\/\/research.yahoo.com\/Yehuda_Koren\">Yehuda<\/a>&#8216;s presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigkdd.org\/kdd2009\/\">KDD<\/a>, which I&#8217;m sure will be one of the best attended ever.  <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t quite over&#8212;there are a few days for another super-conglomerate team to come together and there is some small chance that the performance is nonrepresentative of the final test set, but I expect not.  <\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the final outcome, the biggest lesson for ML from the Netflix contest has been the formidable performance edge of ensemble methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $1M qualifying result was achieved on the public Netflix test set by a 3-way ensemble team. This is just in time for Yehuda&#8216;s presentation at KDD, which I&#8217;m sure will be one of the best attended ever. This isn&#8217;t quite over&#8212;there are a few days for another super-conglomerate team to come together and there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netflix nearly done&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,27,29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-empirical","category-machine-learning","category-supervised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}