Nicolas Hug

ML Engineer

Deep dive into FFCV internals

Efficient Partial Dependence Plots with decision trees

Cython notes and tips

Around gradient boosting: classification, missing values, second order derivatives, and line search.

Understanding Gradient Boosting as a gradient descent

Understanding matrix factorization for recommendation (part 4) - algorithm implementation

Understanding matrix factorization for recommendation (part 3) - SVD for recommendation

Understanding matrix factorization for recommendation (part 2) - the model behind SVD

Understanding matrix factorization for recommendation (part 1) - preliminary insights on PCA