A survey of stealth malware attacks, mitigation measures, and steps toward autonomous open world solutions

EM Rudd, A Rozsa, M Günther… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As our professional, social, and financial existences become increasingly digitized and as
our government, healthcare, and military infrastructures rely more on computer technologies …

Data mining and education

KR Koedinger, S D'Mello… - Wiley …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
An emerging field of educational data mining (EDM) is building on and contributing to a wide
variety of disciplines through analysis of data coming from various educational technologies …

Lightgbm: A highly efficient gradient boosting decision tree

G Ke, Q Meng, T Finley, T Wang… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) is a popular machine learning algorithm,
and has quite a few effective implementations such as XGBoost and pGBRT. Although many …

A churn prediction model using random forest: analysis of machine learning techniques for churn prediction and factor identification in telecom sector

I Ullah, B Raza, AK Malik, M Imran, SU Islam… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the telecom sector, a huge volume of data is being generated on a daily basis due to a
vast client base. Decision makers and business analysts emphasized that attaining new …

Ernest: Efficient performance prediction for {Large-Scale} advanced analytics

S Venkataraman, Z Yang, M Franklin, B Recht… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2016 - usenix.org
Recent workload trends indicate rapid growth in the deployment of machine learning,
genomics and scientific workloads on cloud computing infrastructure. However, efficiently …

An empirical analysis of feature engineering for predictive modeling

J Heaton - SoutheastCon 2016, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning models, such as neural networks, decision trees, random forests and
gradient boosting machines accept a feature vector and provide a prediction. These models …

How deep is knowledge tracing?

M Khajah, RV Lindsey, MC Mozer - arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02416, 2016 - arxiv.org
In theoretical cognitive science, there is a tension between highly structured models whose
parameters have a direct psychological interpretation and highly complex, general-purpose …

A machine learning approach for tracking and predicting student performance in degree programs

J Xu, KH Moon… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurately predicting students' future performance based on their ongoing academic records
is crucial for effectively carrying out necessary pedagogical interventions to ensure students' …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing ensemble weights and hyperparameters of machine learning models for regression problems

M Shahhosseini, G Hu, H Pham - Machine Learning with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Aggregating multiple learners through an ensemble of models aim to make better
predictions by capturing the underlying distribution of the data more accurately. Different …

[HTML][HTML] Educational data mining techniques for student performance prediction: method review and comparison analysis

Y Zhang, Y Yun, R An, J Cui, H Dai… - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Student performance prediction (SPP) aims to evaluate the grade that a student will reach
before enrolling in a course or taking an exam. This prediction problem is a kernel task …