Salford Systems is offering a free webinar on Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing
 
Course Outline:
·       Gradient Boosting and Post-Processing:
o   What is missing from Gradient Boosting?
o   Why post-processing techniques are used?
·       Applications Benefiting from Post-Processing: Examples from a variety of industries.
o   Financial Services
o   Biomedical
o   Environmental
o   Manufacturing
o   Adserving
·       Typical Post-Processing Steps
·       Techniques:
o   Generalized Path Seeker (GPS): modern high-speed LASSO-style regularized  regression.
o   Importance Sampled Learning Ensembles (ISLE): identify and reweight  the most influential trees.
o   Rulefit: ISLE on “steroids.”  Identify the most influential nodes and rules.
·       Case Study Example:
o   Output/Results without Post-Processing
o   Output/Results with Post-Processing
o   Demo
 
Webinar Registration: Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-Processing
http://2.salford-systems.com/gradientboosting-and-post-processing/
December 14, 10-11 a.m., PST
 
The attendees can try MARS, as well as their other software, at no charge for 30 days.
 
Student Rates for Salford software:
$75 for any one of their individual products: CART®, MARS®, TreeNet® Stochastic Gradient Boosting or RandomForests®
$120 for SPM Salford Predictive Modeler® software suite
 
For more information on Salford software contact Lisa Solomon <lisas@salford-systems.com>