Data or label leakage is a pervasive but often overlooked problem in predictive modeling on real-life data, and it takes on monstrous proportions at enterprise companies such as Salesforce that provide ML as a service to other businesses, where the data is populated by diverse and often unknown business processes, making it very hard for data scientists to distinguish cause from effect.
Till Bergmann and Leah McGuire explain how Salesforce—which needs to churn out thousands of customer-specific models for any given use case—tackled this problem. The automated approaches they describe are a part of our recently open sourced Spark-based library TransmogrifAI and extend the boundaries of what typically falls in the domain of automated machine learning.
Till Bergmann is a senior data scientist at Salesforce Einstein, building platforms to make it easier to integrate machine learning into Salesforce products, with a focus on automating many of the laborious steps in the machine learning pipeline. He holds a PhD in cognitive science from the University of California, Merced, where he studied the collaboration patterns of academics using NLP techniques.
Leah McGuire is a principal member of the technical staff at Salesforce Einstein, where she builds platforms to enable the integration of machine learning into Salesforce products. Previously, Leah was a senior data scientist on the data products team at LinkedIn working on personalization, entity resolution, and relevance for a variety of LinkedIn data products and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied the neural encoding and integration of sensory signals.
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