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This document discusses the author's experience over the last decade working in data science and data engineering roles. It describes how technology problems were initially focused on identifying patterns in data to solve problems like fraud detection. However, over time policy concerns have become more prominent as models have grown more complex. The author notes that as technology problems shrink, product and policy challenges around topics like algorithmic transparency and collective action have become increasingly important to address at scale.
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To both maximize model performance on a budget and explore the impact of optimization on these methods, we apply a particularly efficient implementation of Bayesian optimization to each of these architectures in this comparison. Our goal is to draw on a rigorous set of experimental results that can help us answer the question: how can resource-constrained teams make trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness using pre-trained models?
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In this presentation, we discuss practical and theoretical approaches to dealing with observation bias. When the nature of the bias is known, there are simple adjustments we can make to nonparametric function estimation techniques, such as Gaussian Process models. We also discuss the scenario where the data collection model is unknown. In this case, there are steps we can take to estimate it from observed data. Finally, we demonstrate that having a small subset of data points that are known to be collected at random - that is, in an unbiased way - can vastly improve our ability to account for observation bias in the rest of the data set.
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Recognizing and distinguishing specific semantic relations from other types of semantic relations is an essential part of language understanding systems. Identifying expressions with similar and contrasting meanings is valuable for NLP systems which go beyond recognizing semantic relatedness and require to identify specific semantic relations. In this talk, I will first present novel techniques for creating labelled datasets required for training deep learning models for classifying semantic relations between phrases. I will further present various neural network architectures that integrate morphological features into integrated path-based and distributional relation detection algorithms and demonstrate that this model outperforms state-of-the-art models in distinguishing semantic relations and is capable of efficiently handling multi-word expressions.
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At Netflix, our main goal is to maximize our members’ enjoyment of the selected show by minimizing the amount of time it takes for them to find it. We try to achieve this goal by personalizing almost all the aspects of our product -- from what shows to recommend, to how to present these shows and construct their home-pages to what images to select per show, among many other things. Everything is recommendations for us and as an applied Machine Learning group, we spend our time building models for personalization that will eventually increase the joy and satisfaction of our members. In this talk we will primarily focus our attention on a) making a global deep learned recommender model that is regional tastes and popularity aware and b) adapting this model to changing taste preferences as well as dynamic catalog availability.
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