Machine Learning Exercises Summer Term 2010
Contact
For questions and general comments please contact the exercise course organizer Dr. Thomas Gabel.
Top Downloads
- Slides of the award ceremony (including the final ranking) of the course-internal data-mining competition: slides
- The perceptron learning program used for solving exercise 6: link.
- The stand-alone presentation on learning an aggressive defense behavior (exercise 15).
- The solution presentations of all participants of our data-mining competition: link
- CSV data files for exercise 4: disease data and body height data
All downloads (including sample solutions for all exercises) can be found here.
Course-Internal Data-Mining Competition
Task Details: see Exercise Sheet 2
News
Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline has been extended to June, 27th, 2010.
General notes and reminders:
- Don't forget to submit your solution (by email to Thomas Gabel) until
June, 20th, 2010June, 27th, 2010. - That email must also list the names of all your team members and corresponding matriculation numbers.
- You can work in teams with up to 3 students.
- Your solution must be submitted in the form of a list with entries as follows:
<Customer number>;<Voucher> - The voucher field must contain a “0” for “no voucher” or a “1” for “send voucher”. The “Customer number” field must contain the entries given in file dmc2010_class.txt.
- Results that do not contain all the customer numbers from the data that is to be assessed will not be accepted.
Furthermore, you are required to present your solution in one of the the exercise sessions following the submission deadline.
- Presentation length: 15 minutes (equally distributed among team members!).
- Contents of your talk:
- explain briefly the foundations of the methods you employed and tell the other why you decided to use those methods
- speak about the steps you performed solving the task, including possible missteps or problems encountered
- present the results you obtained, also using appropriate charts and diagrams.
- The schedule of the presentations will be listed on this web page after the submission deadline.
- Hand in the slides of your presentation prior to your talk (by email to Thomas Gabel).
- Check this page frequently for any updates or changes.
Assessment of your solution: Your solution will be considered successful only, if you comply to the following five minimal requirements.
- You have submitted your solution before the submission deadline.
- You have covered all customer numbers given in dmc2010_class.txt (not just a subset) and your solution is formatted as described above.
- Your solution is not a trivial one (like, for example, sending vouchers to all customers).
- Your presentation is convincing in that it (a) shows that you have seriously dealt with the task and (b) the things you are presenting are in alignment with your submitted solution.
- You have handed in the slides of your presentation prior to your talk.
- Besides those minimal requirements (which are essential for exam qualification), we will have a course-internal DMC ranking.
- In order to determine this ranking, the cost structure given in the task specification will be employed.
- The best three teams will be awarded.
Schedule of Result Presentations
UE5 (13.07.2010):
- Thomas Huber and Nichola Abdo and Mesbah Anwari
- Sebastian Ohse
- Stefan Osswald
- Silvan Sievers and Jens Silva and Matthias Frorath
- Philipp Blohm and Roxana Bersan
- Manuel Braun and Jendrik Seipp
UE6 (20.07.2010):
- Thorsten Engesser and Jeremias Holub
- Benedikt Mendorf
- Edgar Oswald
- Simon Pahl and Jan Kelch and Meike Aulbach
UE7 (22.07.2010):
- Hernando Ramirez and Dragos-Alexandru Sorescu and Suzana Ilinca Tudose
- Kerstin Schmatzer and Rufino Khoun and Thorsten Bischler
- Johannes Stegmaier and Nisha Rajasundaram
- Yousra Wahby and Alejandro Molina Ramirez and Refik Hadzialic
- Richard Zahoransky and Alexander Schneider
- Friedel Ziegelmayer and Daniel Christiany and Marcus Zeiger
- Thomas Gabel:
Award Ceremony: Proclamation of the official course-internal DMC ranking and presentation of prizes.
Final Ranking of the Course-Internal Data-Mining Competition
The baseline for the test data set (sending a voucher to all customers) is 8548.5. Therefore, the top seven teams yield a monetary gain; with the winning team earning almost 1400 Euro. Congratulations!
- bersan_blohm, 9931.0
- pahl_kelch_aulbach, 9366.5
- ramirez_tudose_sorescu, 9012.5
- braun_seipp, 8927.5
- stegmaier_rajasundaram, 8726.0
- schmatzer_bischler_khoun, 8591.0
- sievers_silva_frorath, 8567.0
- wahby_ramirez_hadzialic, 8369.5
- ziegelmayer_christiany_zeiger, 7688.0
- oswald, 7573.5
- ohse, 4419.0
- mendorf, 2116.0
- osswald, 762.5
- zahoransky_schneider, 319.0
- engesser_holub, -29.5
- huber_abdo_anwari, NaN
Additional Solutions (handed in after the deadline, e.g. containing error corrections etc.). Interestingly, the best solution handed in outperforms the baseline by more than 2200 Euro.
- braun_seipp (2), 10768.0
- braun_seipp (1), 10759.0
- engesser_holub, 9746.5
- bersan_blohm, 9426.5
- huber_abdo_anwari, 8766.5
You will find more information on the results in this set of slides.
Course-Intenal Ranking Blended with the Official DMC Ranking
- Inst_KIT_2 12545,5
- TU_Dortmund_2.txt 12445,5
- Inst_KIT_1 12377,5
- RWTH_Aachen_1 12119,5
- FH_Trier_1 12072,5
- RWTH_Aachen_2 12072,0
- Uni_Marburg_1 12006,5
- HS_Anhalt_2 11961,5
- HS_Anhalt_1 11941,5
- Uni_UPC Barcelona_1 11566,0
- Uni_Hamburg_2 11532,5
- FH_Köln_1 11444,0
- HS_Wismar_1 11423,0
- Uni_Hamburg_1 11409,5
- FH_Lausitz_1 11349,5
- Uni_Bloominton_1.txt 11285,0
- HS_Mittweida_1 11275,5
- Uni_Science Technology China_2 11253,5
- HS_Wismar_2 11169,5
- TU_Berlin_1 11049,0
- Uni_Ljubljana_1 10834,0
ADDITIONAL_braun_seipp (2), 10768.0 - Uni_Brigham_1 10759,0
ADDITIONAL_braun_seipp (1), 10759.0 - HS_Ulm_1 10569,0
- X_HS_Mittweida_2 10489,5
- Uni_Zagreb_1 10461,5
- Uni_Kiel_1 10145,0
- Uni_Leibniz Hannover_1 10034,0
bersan_blohm, 9931.0 - U_Potsdam_1 9883,5
- FH_Gelsenkirchen_1 9827,5
ADDITIONAL_engesser_holub, 9746.5 - Uni_Gadjah Mada_2 9503,5
ADDITIONAL_bersan_blohm, 9426.5
pahl_kelch_aulbach, 9366.5