Performance Prediction Challenge

The challenge is over, but a new challenge is on-going using the same datasets, check it out!

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This project is supported by the National Science Fundation under Grant N0. ECS-0424142. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
The workshop and challenge are coordinated by:
Isabelle Guyon
Clopinet Enterprises
955, Creston Road,
Berkeley, CA 94708, U.S.A.
Tel/Fax: (510) 524 6211
The web site design of Steve Gunn (University of Southampton), formerly used for the NIPS2003 feature selection challenge, was adapted and improved by Olivier Guyon (MisterP.net). We are thankful to Bernd Fischer (ETH Zurich) for administering the computer resources.
The advisors and beta-testers are gratefully acknowledged:
Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal),
Asa Ben-Hur (University of Washington)
Joachim Buhmann (ETH, Zurich),
Gideon Dror (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo),
Amir Reza Saffari Azar (Graz University of Technology),
Lambert Schomaker (University of Groningen),
Vladimir Vapnik (NEC, Princeton).
The Challenge Learning Object Package (CLOP) is based on code to which many people have contributed:
- The developer of CLOP: Isabelle Guyon.
- The creators of the spider: Jason Weston, Andre Elisseeff , Gikhan BakIr , Fabian Sinz.
- The developers of the packages attached to CLOP: Chih-Chung Chang and Chih-JenLin Jun-Cheng (LIBSVM), Chen, Kuan-Jen Peng, Chih-Yuan Yan, Chih-Huai Cheng, and Rong-En Fan (LIBSVM Matlab interface), Junshui Ma and Yi Zhao (second LIBSVM Matlab interface), Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler (Random Forests), Ting Wang (RF Matlab interface), Ian Nabney and Christopher Bishop (NETLAB).
- The contributors to other Spider functions or packages: Thorsten Joachims (SVMLight), Chih-Chung Chang and Chih-JenLin (LIBSVM), Ronan Collobert (SVM Torch II), Jez Hill, Jan Eichhorn, Rodrigo Fernandez, Holger Froehlich, Gorden Jemwa, Kiyoung Yang, Chirag Patel, Sergio Rojas.