Salford Webinar, Dec 14: Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing

Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing
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December 14 | 10-11am PT, 1-2 pm ET

Course outline:

• Gradient Boosting and Post-Processing:
  • What is missing from Gradient Boosting?
  • Why post-processing techniques are used?
• Applications Benefiting from Post-Processing: Examples from a variety of industries.
  • Financial Services
  • Biomedical
  • Environmental
  • Manufacturing
  • Adserving
• Typical Post-Processing Steps
• Techniques:
  • Generalized Path Seeker (GPS): modern high-speed LASSO-style regularized regression.
  • Importance Sampled Learning Ensembles (ISLE): identify and reweight the most influential trees.
  • Rulefit: ISLE on "steroids." Identify the most influential nodes and rules.
• Case Study Example:
  • Output/Results without Post-Processing
  • Output/Results with Post-Processing
  • Demo

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