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competition rabbit holes

the task, the result & the ideas worth keeping.

RecSys Challenge · Industry Track ↗

Music dialogues: preserve source evidence through two TargetAttention compressors, then explain a fixed ranking.

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Avito ML Cup ↗

One learned matrix, several views of user history, and a ranker choosing forty catalogue nodes.

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VK RecSys Challenge · LSVD ↗

Find an audience for unseen videos through their authors, then share a limited user budget across all videos.

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Riiid Answer Correctness Prediction ↗

Five models sharing a prediction loop, with delayed answers and several memories of the same learner.

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other rabbit holes

2024

RecSys Challenge

7th place / AmazMe

2021

VK Cup

finalist

2020

Deepfake Detection Challenge

225 / 2265 · bronze / [ods.ai] Vlad Kostoglodoff

2020

Mechanisms of Action Prediction

418 / 4373 · bronze / Vlad Kostoglodoff

2019

ASHRAE · Great Energy Predictor III

109 / 3614 · silver / [ ods.ai ] vk0st [ orm boyz ]