On 07/05/2012 09:45 AM, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> Hey Peter.
> Pretty awesome feat! Thanks for all the work you put into the ensemble
> module!
>
> A blog post about this competition would really be great :)
>
> I was wondering, was there much difference in performance between GBRT
> and RF?

Hi,

I participated to the competition (with not so good results ;-)) but
there was indeed a significant difference between RF and GB. I tried RF, 
ExtraTrees
and GradientBoosting and got a RMSLE of ~0.60 using the first two (with
blending and a preprocessing procedure similar to the one of Peter) and
~0.578 with GB. OK, you might say that the difference is little but there
are tens of positions in the final rank between them ;-)

Best,

Emanuele


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