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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Congratulations! Very impressive indeed!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Artur Dubrawski <awd@cs.cmu.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 15, 2020 7:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@autonlab.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Srinivasa G Narasimhan <srinivas@andrew.cmu.edu>; Martial H Hebert <hebert@cs.cmu.edu>; Byron G Spice <bspice@cs.cmu.edu>; Roni Rosenfeld <roni@cs.cmu.edu>; Tom M Mitchell <mitchell@andrew.cmu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ANOTHER UPDATE: [In case you have been contemplating developing or applying automated machine learning...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you might have noticed, we are hosting a large DARPA workshop and evaluation exercise this week (thank you Jarod for taking care of all the logistics and the rest of the Auton team for your support!)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know if starts sounding quite boring, but Saswati and her Team's automated machine learning tool is still leading the leaderboard of the D3M program, uncontested for several months now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is quite special since all of the code is available to other performers so they should be able to catch up, and they are trying, but our tool seems to continue eluding its pursuers with<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">a surprising consistency :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Again, congrats to everyone involved!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS The top of the current leaderboard:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:33 PM Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">... look no further than Saswati Ray's office. <-- that's what I said in June, and it holds!]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, Saswati's Task Force continues to excel at DARPA D3M evaluations. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see below the current leaderboard -- the competition was indeed top-notch.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers and congrats to everyone who contributed and please continue your outstanding work!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 8:41 AM Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">... look no further than Saswati Ray's office. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">She leads the Auton Lab task force that got CMU to the very top of the leader boards in the current DARPA D3M evaluations, leaving behind a number of lead university (all the usual suspects included) and industrial competitors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congrats to everyone involved!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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