Machine Learning for Relevance and Serendipity

Machine Learning for Relevance and Serendipity

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Machine Learning for Relevance and Serendipity

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  1. 1 Machine Learning for Relevance and
  2. 2 The Discovery Problem
  3. 3 How we do it
  4. 4 People who use the term 'secret sauce' know about neither
  5. 5 Talk Outline
  6. 6 Our Topic Classifier
  7. 7 Interest Scores
  8. 8 Saved Session Data
  9. 9 You are all unique snowflakes
  10. 10 How do we know if we've done a good job?
  11. 11 Formula for a Machine Learning Problem
  12. 12 Collect Data • Save session information (described earlier)
  13. 13 Featurize Data
  14. 14 Training the model (numeric optimization)
  15. 15 Classify New Data
  16. 16 Original formulation weight vector is universal, features are user-specific
  17. 17 The Development Cycle
  18. 18 Data bugs (are the worst)
  19. 19 Presentation bias
  20. 20 Ranking vs Normal ML
  21. 21 Statistical Bleeding
  22. 22 Simpsons Paradox
  23. 23 Summary • We collect information about our users' preferences and dispreferences
  24. 24 Prismatic Backend Team

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