Personal Assistant Systems
PODCAST - Ginmon provides automated and personal online wealth management
We build a platform, that totally automizes the wealth management process. Lars started out as a management consultant inside of Deutsche Bank, in their unit called in-house-consulting, focusing on their retail business. Our clients are wealthy, but not wealthy enough to qualify for traditional wealth management. You can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u 35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content. There was no one at my company interested in what is today robo advisors, so I started my own and do not regret it until this day. They are wealthy enough to have money to invest, but in Germany, the normal threshold to enter the wealth management services of large banks is 2 million Euros, and they do not qualify yet. Ginmon wants to be the online financial advisor for this clientele. Therefore, they became fully licensed as a wealth manager in 2017, by German financial services oversight body BaFin. They now have an investment volume of more than 100 mn Euros for approx. According to Lars, they have approx.
Towards Comprehensive Recommender Systems: Time-Aware UnifiedcRecommendations Based on Listwise Ranking of Implicit Cross-Network Data
Perera, Dilruk, Zimmermann, Roger
The abundance of information in web applications make recommendation essential for users as well as applications. Despite the effectiveness of existing recommender systems, we find two major limitations that reduce their overall performance: (1) inability to provide timely recommendations for both new and existing users by considering the dynamic nature of user preferences, and (2) not fully optimized for the ranking task when using implicit feedback. Therefore, we propose a novel deep learning based unified cross-network solution to mitigate cold-start and data sparsity issues and provide timely recommendations for new and existing users.Furthermore, we consider the ranking problem under implicit feedback as a classification task, and propose a generic personalized listwise optimization criterion for implicit data to effectively rank a list of items. We illustrate our cross-network model using Twitter auxiliary information for recommendations on YouTube target network. Extensive comparisons against multiple time aware and cross-network base-lines show that the proposed solution is superior in terms of accuracy, novelty and diversity. Furthermore, experiments conducted on the popular MovieLens dataset suggest that the proposed listwise ranking method outperforms existing state-of-the-art ranking techniques.
CnGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Cross-network user preference generation for non-overlapped users
Perera, Dilruk, Zimmermann, Roger
A major drawback of cross-network recommender solutions is that they can only be applied to users that are overlapped across networks. Thus, the non-overlapped users, which form the majority of users are ignored. As a solution, we propose CnGAN, a novel multi-task learning based, encoder-GAN-recommender architecture. The proposed model synthetically generates source network user preferences for non-overlapped users by learning the mapping from target to source network preference manifolds. The resultant user preferences are used in a Siamese network based neural recommender architecture. Furthermore, we propose a novel user based pairwise loss function for recommendations using implicit interactions to better guide the generation process in the multi-task learning environment.We illustrate our solution by generating user preferences on the Twitter source network for recommendations on the YouTube target network. Extensive experiments show that the generated preferences can be used to improve recommendations for non-overlapped users. The resultant recommendations achieve superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art cross-network recommender solutions in terms of accuracy, novelty and diversity.
Exploring the use of Time-Dependent Cross-Network Information for Personalized Recommendations
Perera, Dilruk, Zimmermann, Roger
The overwhelming volume and complexity of information in online applications make recommendation essential for users to find information of interest. However, two major limitations that coexist in real world applications (1) incomplete user profiles, and (2) the dynamic nature of user preferences continue to degrade recommender quality in aspects such as timeliness, accuracy, diversity and novelty. To address both the above limitations in a single solution, we propose a novel cross-network time aware recommender solution. The solution first learns historical user models in the target network by aggregating user preferences from multiple source networks. Second, user level time aware latent factors are learnt to develop current user models from the historical models and conduct timely recommendations. We illustrate our solution by using auxiliary information from the Twitter source network to improve recommendations for the YouTube target network. Experiments conducted using multiple time aware and cross-network baselines under different time granularities show that the proposed solution achieves superior performance in terms of accuracy, novelty and diversity.
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Top 21 Machine Learning Projects for 2020 [Source Code Included] - DataFlair
It is always good to have a practical insight of any technology that you are working on. Though textbooks and other study materials will provide you all the knowledge that you need to know about any technology but you can't really master that technology until and unless you work on real-time projects. In this tutorial, you will find 21 machine learning projects ideas for beginners, intermediates, and experts to gain real-world experience of this growing technology. These machine learning project ideas will help you in learning all the practicalities that you need to succeed in your career and to make you employable in the industry. Learning through projects is the best investment that you are going to make.
Sample-Rank: Weak Multi-Objective Recommendations Using Rejection Sampling
Shukla, Abhay, Sathyanarayana, Jairaj, Banerjee, Dipyaman
Online food ordering marketplaces are multi-stakeholder systems where recommendations impact the experience and growth of each participant in the system. A recommender system in this setting has to encapsulate the objectives and constraints of different stakeholders in order to find utility of an item for recommendation. Constrained-optimization based approaches to this problem typically involve complex formulations and have high computational complexity in production settings involving millions of entities. Simplifications and relaxation techniques (for example, scalarization) help but introduce sub-optimality and can be time-consuming due to the amount of tuning needed. In this paper, we introduce a method involving multi-goal sampling followed by ranking for user-relevance (Sample-Rank), to nudge recommendations towards multi-objective (MO) goals of the marketplace. The proposed method's novelty is that it reduces the MO recommendation problem to sampling from a desired multi-goal distribution then using it to build a production-friendly learning-to-rank (LTR) model. In offline experiments we show that we are able to bias recommendations towards MO criteria with acceptable trade-offs in metrics like AUC and NDCG. We also show results from a large-scale online A/B experiment where this approach gave a statistically significant lift of 2.64% in average revenue per order (RPO) (objective #1) with no drop in conversion rate (CR) (objective #2) while holding the average last-mile traversed flat (objective #3), vs. the baseline ranking method. This method also significantly reduces time to model development and deployment in MO settings and allows for trivial extensions to more objectives and other types of LTR models.
Collaborative Filtering under Model Uncertainty
Schmidt, Robin M., Hahn, Moritz
In their work, Dean, Rich, and Recht create a model to research recourse and availability of items in a recommender system. We used the definition of predictive multiplicity by Marx, Pin Calmon, and Ustun to examine different variations of this model, using different values for two model parameters. Pairwise comparison of their models show, that most of these models produce very similar results in terms of discrepancy and ambiguity for the availability and only in some cases the availability sets differ significantly.
Counterfactual Evaluation of Slate Recommendations with Sequential Reward Interactions
McInerney, James, Brost, Brian, Chandar, Praveen, Mehrotra, Rishabh, Carterette, Ben
Users of music streaming, video streaming, news recommendation, Offline evaluation is challenging because the deployed recommender and e-commerce services often engage with content in a sequential decides which items the user sees, introducing significant manner. Providing and evaluating good sequences of recommendations exposure bias in logged data [7, 16, 22]. Various methods have been is therefore a central problem for these services. Prior proposed to mitigate bias using counterfactual evaluation. In this reweighting-based counterfactual evaluation methods either suffer paper, we use terminology from the multi-armed bandit framework from high variance or make strong independence assumptions to discuss these methods: the recommender performs an action about rewards. We propose a new counterfactual estimator that allows by showing an item depending on the observed context (e.g., user for sequential interactions in the rewards with lower variance covariates, item covariates, time of day, day of the week) and then in an asymptotically unbiased manner. Our method uses graphical observes a reward through the user response (e.g., a stream, a purchase, assumptions about the causal relationships of the slate to reweight or length of consumption) [14]. The recommender follows the rewards in the logging policy in a way that approximates the a policy distribution over actions by drawing items stochastically expected sum of rewards under the target policy. Extensive experiments conditioned on the context. in simulation and on a live recommender system show that The basic idea of counterfactual evaluation is to estimate how a our approach outperforms existing methods in terms of bias and new policy would have performed if it had been deployed instead data efficiency for the sequential track recommendations problem. of the deployed policy.
3 Things to Consider When Setting Up Artificial Intelligence Team
Artificial intelligence (AI) is obviously a developing power in the technology business. Artificial intelligence is becoming the dominant center point at conferences and indicating potential over a wide variety of industries, including retail and manufacturing. New products are being incorporated with virtual assistants, while chatbots are responding to client inquiries on everything from your online office provider's website to your web hosting service provider's support page. In the interim, organizations, for example, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce are incorporating AI as an intelligence layer over their whole tech stack. Indeed, AI is definitely having its moment. For organizations, practical AI applications can demonstrate in a wide range of ways relying upon your organizational needs and the business intelligence (BI) insights gained from the data you gather.