MLconf Seattle 2017
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor, University of Washington at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Ryan Calo | 28m |
Identifies three concrete policy problems: introducing due process for algorithmic decisions when courts and hospitals use opaque risk scores… | ||
| Margaret Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist, Google at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Margaret Mitchell | 23m |
Shows that image-caption models learn what humans mention not what’s visually true, because of reporting bias (a 2013 study found “murder” appears ~10× more… | ||
| Serena Yeung, PhD Student, Stanford at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Serena Yeung | 28m |
Presents three concrete systems: an RL-based action detector that observes 2% of frames and matches dense sliding-window accuracy by outputting where to look… | ||
| Shiva Amiri, CEO, BioSymetrics at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Shiva Amiri | 26m |
A deployable pipeline iterates hundreds of preprocessing and normalization parameter sets and uses real-time model building to reveal and minimize site effects… | ||
| Luna Dong, Principal Scientist, Amazon at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Luna Dong | 22m |
Knowledge Vault uses 15 extractors over 1B+ webpages to produce 3B+ triples with well‑calibrated probabilities (predicted 0.7 ≈ 70% accuracy). Knowledge‑Based… | ||
| Mukund Narasimhan, Engineer, Pinterest at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Mukund Narasimhan | 24m |
Pinterest models user interest at web scale, combining billions of Pins and 100 million Users and Boards to power recommendations. The team fuses unstructured… | ||
| John Maxwell, Data Scientist, Nordstrom at MLconf Seattle 2017 | John Maxwell | 15m |
Contextual bandits replace slow A/B tests by routing live traffic with epsilon-greedy exploration while learning offline via a reduction to cost‑sensitive… | ||
| Andrew Musselman, Committer & PMC Member, Apache Mahout at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Andrew Musselman | 16m |
Apache Mahout 0.13 provides a Scala R-like DSL (Samsara) that compiles linear-algebra expressions to multiple backends (Apache Spark, Apache Flink, H2O) and an… | ||
| Scott Clark, CEO & Co-Founder, SigOpt at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Scott Clark | 26m |
Claims Bayesian optimization using a Gaussian process surrogate and expected improvement acquisition beats grid and random search on real deep learning tasks… | ||
| Hanie Sedghi, Research Scientist, Allen Institute at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Hanie Sedghi | 30m |
Proposes an algorithm that recovers first-layer weight columns by forming cross-moments between labels and a third-order score function (mth-order derivatives… | ||
| Byron Galbraith, Chief Data Scientist, Talla at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Byron Galbraith | 28m |
A production conversational service desk sits on three pieces: a conversational knowledge base, a lightweight ticketing system and intelligent workflows, built… | ||
| Garrett Goh, Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Garrett Goh | 25m |
Convolutional nets trained on molecule images derived from SMILES→image representations (using open-source decoders) predict HIV activity, Tox21 toxicity (12… | ||
| Alex Korbonits, Data Scientist, Remitly | Alex Korbonits | 28m |
Alex Korbonits is a Data Scientist at Remitly, Inc., where he works extensively on feature extraction and putting machine learning models into production… | ||
| Ashrith Barthur, Security Scientist, H2o.ai at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Ashrith Barthur | 27m |
Claims a production ML pipeline at H2O that uses time-bound features and heavy feature engineering (90% of effort) to spot AML behavior, trains interpretable… | ||
| Tianqi Chen, Computer Science PhD Student, University of Washington at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Tianqi Chen | 24m |
XGBoost adds monotonic constraints and a new histogram algorithm that gives 10x single-thread speedup and 4–7x multi-thread gains, plus a GPU module that… | ||
| Sara Hooker & Sean McPherson, Delta Analytics at MLconf Seattle 2017 | Sara Hooker, Sean McPherson | 29m |
Delta Analytics and Rainforest Connection deploy recycled cellphones called Guardians streaming 24/7 audio from sites in Ecuador Brazil and Peru and train a… | ||
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