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Key to LB improvement
12 Apr 2025, 09:27 · 12

Okay guys I think post processing might be the key to LB improvement what 's your opinion ,

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CodeJoe

Did you apply a postprocessing trick to your subs?

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Knowledge_Seeker101

Yea I did a single post processing which improved my score from 6.38 to 6.18

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CodeJoe

Wow that's a boost. I tried the multiplier trick but it just boosted me a little. Are you using gbdt models?

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Knowledge_Seeker101

Yes I am only using CatBoost, I think you should understand the dynamics of your data for some post processing to work

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CodeJoe

Have you tried lightgbm? To me lightgbm is performing more than catboost

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CodeJoe

I'm also impressed you used catboost to reach that score. Big ups!

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Knowledge_Seeker101

Yea I did a lot of feature engineering, feature engineering worked it got me top 20 , lightgbm didn't work very well for me I am not good at parameter tuning

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CodeJoe

You don't really have to tune the lgbm parameters here. I even used an early stopping of 5 and just 1000 n_estimators.

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Knowledge_Seeker101

Wow , for me the score was >7 , used 1000 n_estimators no early stopping, maybe I was overfitting

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CodeJoe

Definitely, when I tried with even 10 early stopping, I got a worse score. Can't tell though, we are just public board probing🤣🤣

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Knowledge_Seeker101

🤣🤣 that's a fact

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Knowledge_Seeker101

I didn't do any validation, I lost a lot of signal during splitting so am actually relying on lb so far @CodeJoe

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