How to Win a Kaggle Competition with Hyper Parameter Optimization

In this blog post we highlight some of the key takeaways from David Austin's presentation on how to supercharge a 1st place Kaggle solution to higher performance. David Austin is a Senior Principal Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Intel working on industrial applications within the Internet of Things space. In his spare time, he spends, in his own words, way too much time participating in Kaggle competitions and has since 2018 held the title of grandmaster. In the presentation David Austin walks though the Iceberg Classifier Challenge, where the participants are asked to classify radar images into either icebergs or ships to improve safety at sea. At the time of the Iceberg Classifier Challenge it was the computer vision challenge with the most participants ever on Kaggle.