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What do you mean by "real"?
by activatedgeek 10y ago
What do you mean by "real"?
- got2surf 10y agoSorry, using "real" in quotes wasn't too descriptive. A few machine learning-based classifiers (we've used Bayesian and SVM approaches). Word embeddings and topic modeling (similar to word2vec) which are based on shallow neural networks. Those are a few of what I would consider the "real" machine learning tools we use. Most of the application, though, is statistics/pattern recognition/visualizations on top of the data calculated by the ML approaches. The interesting thing is (in my opinion/experience) that a 10% improvement in some of the ML performance (a 10% increase in accuracy, for example) will translate to a 1-3% improvement in end user experience (they see slightly better insights and patterns, but it is a marginal improvement). On the other hand, layering a new visualization or statistical heuristic on top of the data can lead to a significant boost in user experience. Again, this is just for our specific application/domain, but we focus on making the ML results more accessible to users instead of focusing on the marginal accuracy of the ML results themselves.