“Teams from all over the world competed to build the best video recommender system for Netflix. As the competition progressed, teams found that they obtained the best results by combining their learners with other teams’, and merged into larger and larger teams. The winner and runner up were both stacked ensembles of over 100 learners, and combining the two ensembles further improved the results.”
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