Combining Predictors for Recommending Music: the False Positives' approach to KDD Cup track 2
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We describe our solution for the KDD Cup 2011 track 2 challenge. Our solution relies heavily on ensembling together diverse individual models for the prediction task, and achieved a final leaderboard misclassification rate of 3.8863%. This paper provides details on both the modeling and ensemble
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تاریخ انتشار 2012