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Practical Tips For Binary Classification Excellenceby@neptuneAI_patrycja
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Practical Tips For Binary Classification Excellence

by neptune.ai Patrycja JenknerNovember 9th, 2020
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Imagine if you could get all the tips and tricks you need to tackle a binary classification problem on Kaggle or anywhere else. I have gone over 10 competitions including: Toxic Comment Classification, Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection, Pneumothorax Segmentation, Malware Prediction, Microsoft Malware Detection, and more. The article was originally written by Derrick Miti-witi and posted on the Neptune blog Neptune. You can find more-depth articles in depth for you to go deeper than this article.

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Imagine if you could get all the tips and tricks you need to tackle a binary classification problem on Kaggle or anywhere else. I have gone over 10 Kaggle competitions including:

– and pulled out that information for you.

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Modeling

Dealing with imbalance problems

Metrics

Loss

Cross-validation + proper evaluation

Post-processing

Ensembling

Averaging 

Averaging over multiple seeds

Geometric mean

Average different models

Stacking

Blending 

Others

Repositories and open solutions

Repos with open source solutions

Image based solutions

Tabular based solutions 

Text classification based solutions

Final thoughts

Hopefully, this article gave you some background into binary classification tips and tricks, as well as, some tools and frameworks that you can use to start competing.

We’ve covered tips on:

  • architectures,
  • losses,
  • post-processing,
  • ensembling,
  • tools and frameworks.

If you want to go deeper, simply follow the links and see how the best binary classification models are built.

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This article was originally written by Derrick Mwiti and posted on the Neptune blog. You can find more in-depth articles for machine learning practitioners there.