[R-sig-eco] Webinar signup: Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing. December 14, 10-11 a.m., PST

[Lisa Solomon]

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:
I. Gradient Boosting and Post-Processing: 
o What is missing from Gradient Boosting?
o Why post-processing techniques are used?

II. Applications Benefiting from Post-Processing: Examples from a variety of industries.
o Financial Services
o Biomedical
o Environmental
o Manufacturing
o Adserving

III. Typical Post-Processing Steps

IV. 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.

V. Case Study Example:
o Output/Results without Post-Processing 
o Output/Results with Post-Processing
o Demo