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Re:An Introduction to Support Vector Machines by YZF on Thursday June 22, 2017 @06:35PM (#14615839)
Weren't SVMs used for the NetFlix recommendation engine? (i.e. the NetFlix prize?)
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Re:An Introduction to Support Vector Machines by denzil_correa on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:30PM (#14616079)
I think it was Gradient Decision Boosting Trees to combine different models.
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Re:An Introduction to Support Vector Machines by eggie5 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:19PM (#14616738)
No, it was an ensemble of Collaborative filtering using Matrix Factorization (using SVD) and a RBM.
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