Machine Learning

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Machine Learning

• Reading Chapter 18, 20

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Agenda and Announcements

• Machine Learning assignment will go out on
  Thursday.
• Tutorial in class on tool for homework
• Today
• Tournament
• Application in machine learning
• Midterm results
• HW 1 results

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Tournament Structure

• 1st round randomly seeded
• Who plays who
• Starter rank random
• After each game, players who have won same number
  of games play against each other
• 5-6 rounds
• Prediction of length of time 100 min per round,
  10 hours
• Will post a web site that tracks
• Lab date not yet confirmed
• Extra credit
• 1.5 points for passing entrance test
• 1.5 points for top 50
• 1.5 points for top 5
• 1.5 points for top 1

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KDD Cup

• Knowledge Dissemination and Discovery
• 2003 Predicting interest in journal papers
  SVMs a winner
• 2002 Bioinformatics - e.g., given a set of
  bioinformatics papers and a list of genes
  mentioned in each paper, determine for each gene
  whether the paper has full experimental evidence
• 2001 Bioinformatics prediction of
  biomolecular activity for drug design prediction
  of gene/protein function and localization
• 2000 Predicting user activity in online product
  web site (legwear)
• 1999 Network intrusion detection. Given 5
  million connection records, predict normal vs.
  attack (denial of service, remote unauthorized
  access, local unauthorized access, probing)
• 1998 Predict who will give how much to a
  specific charity based on a variety of
  demographics
• 1997 - Two of the 3 winners used Naïve Bayes
  classifiers

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Task 3
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