Hackathon@ESPCI2015

April 22, 2015: ESPCI in Paris

The bootcamp/hackathon is co-organized by ChaLearn, ESPCI, and the Paris Machine Learning Meetup.

The idea is to create Parisian teams to enter the Automatic Machine Learning challenge http://codalab.org/AutoML.

PREREQUISITES

• Fill out this form and install software following instructions (this should take between 20 min and 2h).
• Provide proof that you made a successful result submission to the AutoML main challenge website (your username should appear in the leaderboard).
• Bring your own laptop and charger (laptop should come with battery charged).

If you are not in Paris and want to participate remotely, you can login to Codalab and make entries. The websites of the hackathon are open to outsiders:

• Round zero website (all the "prep" datasets; useful to get familiar with all the data formats) -- Now open to everybody
• Round one website (the "novice" datasets: only binary classification problems, full matrices, no missing values, no categorical variables) -- Now closed, enter the regular challenge http://codalab.org/AutoML.

If you signed up for the GPU track, follow these additional instructions.

PROGRAMME

8h30 — Registration

9:00 am — Isabelle Guyon and Lukasz Romaszko (ChaLearn): Presentation of the AutoML challenge. [Introduction paper (accepted to IJCNN 2015)]

Tips to solve it and win!

10:00 am — Olivier Grisel (INRIA): How to use Scikit-Learn to solve machine learning problems. [iPython notebook example given in talk][iPython notebook to solve round 1]

11:00 am — Julien Demouth (NVIDIA): Deep Neural Networks and GPUs.

12:00 pm — Lunch, informal discussions

2:00 pm— Bootcamp/hackathon: improve solutions of winners from previous rounds with the

help of coaches

5 pm — Continue working on your own and win the challenge!

TEAMS