R help - Nov 2012 - Webinar signup: Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing. December 14, 10-11 a.m., PST

Webinar signup:

Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing

December 14, 10-11 a.m., PST



Webinar Registration:
http://2.salford-systems.com/gradientboosting-and-post-processing/


Course Outline:

*        Gradient Boosting and Post-Processing:

o   What is missing from Gradient Boosting?

o   Why post-processing techniques are used?

*        Applications Benefiting from Post-Processing: Examples from a variety
of industries.

o   Financial Services

o   Biomedical

o   Environmental

o   Manufacturing

o   Adserving

*        Typical Post-Processing Steps

*        Techniques:

o   Generalized Path Seeker (GPS): modern high-speed LASSO-style regularized 
regression.

o   Importance Sampled Learning Ensembles (ISLE): identify and reweight  the
most influential trees.

o   Rulefit: ISLE on "steroids."  Identify the most influential nodes
and rules.

*        Case Study Example:

o   Output/Results without Post-Processing

o   Output/Results with Post-Processing

o   Demo




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