CMU Auton Lab Team continues to lead in DARPA AutoML evaluations

[Artur Dubrawski]

Team,

The story has made it to the SCS website, check it out here:

https://www.scs.cmu.edu/news/scs-researchers-top-leaderboard-darpa-automl-evaluations


Congrats again to Saswati, Jarod, Cristian, Kin and all Auton D3M Team!

Artur

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:39 AM Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Team,
>
> I feel stupid - blame it on my vacationinig mindset if you can - but I
> completely overlooked the key contribution to the second part of the story
> below from Kin Gutierrez. He was fundamental in developing and coding the
> advanced time series forecasting tool that pushed our ML primitive
> development team to #1 rank in the most recent evaluation. Thank you Kin,
> very well earned congratulations, and please accept my
> apologies for not including you in the note below.
>
> Cheers
> Artur
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 2:23 PM Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Team,
>>
>> We all got used to Saswati Ray and Team, and their automated machine
>> learning pipeline construction algorithm beating everyone else in periodic
>> DARPA evaluation contests for the past 2 years or so.
>>
>> So the news of the day today may not feel so new anymore: she remains the
>> reigning Queen of AutoML, according to just-in DARPA D3M Summer evaluation
>> leaderboard scores :)
>>
>> We got used to Saswati doing this, but to continue being #1 in such a
>> tight contest for this long... It's like winning 7 or 8 Stanley Cups or
>> Superbowls in a row, completely out of charts!
>>
>> In addition, somewhat unexpectedly but very pleasantly, our ML
>> component-building sub-team, led by Jarod Wang and Cristian Challu, also
>> got #1 rank in their respective category in the same DARPA evaluation :)
>>
>> This is nothing but amazing, thanks to everyone involved for your
>> efforts, congratulations!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Artur
>>
>
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