Bibliographic record
Abstract
Big data is a transformational force for businesses and organizations of every stripe. The ability to rapidly and accurately derive insights from massive amounts of data is becoming a critical competitive differentiator so it is driving continuous innovation among business analysts, data scientists, and computer engineers. Two of the most important success factors for analytic techniques are the ability to quickly develop and incrementally evolve them to suit changing business needs and the ability to scale these techniques using parallel computing to process huge collections of data. Unfortunately, these goals are often at odds with each other because innovation at the algorithm and data model level requires a combination of domain knowledge and expertise in data analysis while achieving high scale demands expertise in parallel computing, cloud computing and even hardware acceleration. In this talk, I will examine various approaches to bridging these two goals, with a focus on domain-specific models which simultaneously improve the agility of analytics development and the achievement of efficient parallel scaling.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".