Preliminary KDD Cup 2016 third phase and overall results announced
By Alex Wade, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research The preliminary results are in for the third and final round of the $10,000 KDD Cup 2016, and it was a squeaker! The top ten finalists, out of a field of 3,773 submissions from 554 teams, were separated by only .01 points. Their task? To rank research institutions by influence, based on their predictions of the number of papers that would be accepted to top conferences in…
July 2016
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