Greg Linden and Daniel Lemire have both written a little about the Netflix Prize and whether the systems that are doing the best are really worth anything. The KorBell system that recently won the Progress Prize consists of 107 different parts in an ensemble system (Note: the team of Bob Bell and Yehuda Koren at AT&T goes by BellKor and KorBell on the Netflix leaderboard). The paper is interesting for two reasons: the ensemble method being used and the fact that only about 3 or 4 of those components are doing the heavy lifting. Actually, I have no idea whether the actual ensemble algorithm they use would be especially interesting to anyone else, but as I have no experience with ensembles in this context, it was interesting to me. (more…)
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