Jukka Suomela: Publications: Making predictions and scoring them
Workshop paper
| Authors: | Jukka Kohonen and Jukka Suomela |
| Title: | Lessons learned in the challenge: making predictions and scoring them |
| Workshop: | 1st PASCAL Machine Learning Challenges Workshop (MLCW), Southampton, UK, April 2005 |
| Proceedings: | Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela, Ido Dagan, Bernardo Magnini, and Florence d’Alché-Buc (Eds.): Machine Learning Challenges. Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty, Visual Object Classification, and Recognizing Textual Entailment. First PASCAL Machine Learning Challenges Workshop, MLCW 2005. Southampton, UK, April 11–13, 2005. Revised Selected Papers |
| Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 3944 Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2006 ISBN: 978-3-540-33427-9 pages 95–116 doi:10.1007/11736790_7 |
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| Links: | publisher’s version · local copy © Springer 2006 |
| presentation, 11 April 2005 | |
| workshop · proceedings · series · DBLP | |
| Abstract: | In this paper we present lessons learned in the Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge. We describe the methods we used in regression challenges, including our winning method for the Outaouais data set. We then turn our attention to the more general problem of scoring in probabilistic machine learning challenges. It is widely accepted that scoring rules should be proper in the sense that the true generative distribution has the best expected score; we note that while this is useful, it does not guarantee finding the best methods for practical machine learning tasks. We point out some problems in local scoring rules such as the negative logarithm of predictive density (NLPD), and illustrate with examples that many of these problems can be avoided by a distance-sensitive rule such as the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS). |