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Here are the reports from some of the competitions that we have participated in:
  * ICML Exploration and Exploitation Challenge 2012 (Champion of Phase 1): Ku-Chun Chou and Hsuan-Tien Lin. Balancing between Estimated Reward and Uncertainty during News Article Recommendation for ICML 2012 Exploration and Exploitation Challenge. [[http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/paper/doc/wsicml12ene.pdf|link]]
  * KDDCup 2012 Track 2 (Champion): Kuan-Wei Wu, Chun-Sung Ferng, Chia-Hua Ho, An-Chun Liang, Chun-Heng Huang, Wei-Yuan Shen, Jyun-Yu Jiang, Ming-Hao Yang, Ting-Wei Lin, Ching-Pei Lee, Perng-Hwa Kung, Chin-En Wang, Ting-Wei Ku, Chun-Yen Ho, Yi-Shu Tai, I-Kuei Chen, Wei-Lun Huang, Che-Ping Chou, Tse-Ju Lin, Han-Jay Yang, Yen-Kai Wang, Cheng-Te Li, Shou-De Lin and Hsuan-Tien Lin. A Two-Stage Ensemble of Diverse Models for Advertisement Ranking in KDD Cup 2012. [[http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/paper/doc/wskdd12cup.pdf|link]]
  * KDDCup 2011 Track 1 (Champion): Po-Lung Chen, Chen-Tse Tsai, Yao-Nan Chen, Ku-Chun Chou, Chun-Liang Li, Cheng-Hao Tsai, Kuan-Wei Wu, Yu-Cheng Chou, Chung-Yi Li, Wei-Shih Lin, Shu-Hao Yu, Rong-Bing Chiu, Chieh-Yen Lin, Chien-Chih Wang, Po-Wei Wang, Wei-Lun Su, Chen-Hung Wu, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Todd G. McKenzie, Ya-Hsuan Chang, Chun-Sung Ferng, Chia-Mau Ni, Hsuan-Tien Lin, Chih-Jen Lin and Shou-De Lin. A Linear Ensemble of Individual and Blended Models for Music Rating Prediction. [[http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/paper/doc/wskdd11cup_one.pdf|link]]
  * KDDCup 2011 Track 2 (Champion): Todd G. McKenzie, Chun-Sung Ferng, Yao-Nan Chen, Chun-Liang Li, Cheng-Hao Tsai, Kuan-Wei Wu, Ya-Hsuan Chang, Chung-Yi Li, Wei-Shih Lin, Shu-Hao Yu, Chieh-Yen Lin, Po-Wei Wang, Chia-Mau Ni, Wei-Lun Su, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Chen-Tse Tsai, Po-Lung Chen, Rong-Bing Chiu, Ku-Chun Chou, Yu-Cheng Chou, Chien-Chih Wang, Chen-Hung Wu, Hsuan-Tien Lin, Chih-Jen Lin and Shou-De Lin. Novel Models and Ensemble Techniques to Discriminate Favorite Items from Unrated Ones for Personalized Music Recommendation. [[http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/paper/doc/wskdd11cup_two.pdf|link]]
  * Yahoo LTR 2010: Ming-Feng Tsai, Shang-Tse Chen, Yao-Nan Chen, Chun-Sung Ferng, Chia-Hsuan Wang, Tzay-Yeu Wen and Hsuan-Tien Lin. An Ensemble Ranking Solution to the Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge. National Taiwan University, Technical Report, September 2010. [[http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/paper/doc/wsltr10ensemble.pdf|link]]
  * KDDCup 2010 (Champion of Both All Teams and All Student Teams): Hsiang-Fu Yu, Hung-Yi Lo, Hsun-Ping Hsieh, Jing-Kai Lou, Todd G. McKenzie, Jung-Wei Chou, Po-Han Chung, Chia-Hua Ho, Chun-Fu Chang, Yin-Hsuan Wei, Jui-Yu Weng, En-Syu Yan, Che-Wei Chang, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Yi-Chen Lo, Po Tzu Chang, Chieh Po, Chien-Yuan Wang, Yi-Hung Huang, Chen-Wei Hung, Yu-Xun Ruan, Yu-Shi Lin, Shou-de Lin, Hsuan-Tien Lin and Chih-Jen Lin. Feature Engineering and Classifier Ensemble for KDD Cup 2010. National Taiwan University, June 2010. [[http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/paper/doc/wskdd10cup.pdf|link]]
  * KDDCup 2009 Slow Track (Third Place): Hung-Yi Lo, Kai-Wei Chang, Shang-Tse Chen, Tsung-Hsien Chiang, Chun-Sung Ferng, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Yi-Kuang Ko, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Hung-Che Lai, Ken-Yi Lin, Chia-Hsuan Wang, Hsiang-Fu Yu, Chih-Jen Lin, Hsuan-Tien Lin and Shou-de Lin. An Ensemble of Three Classifiers for KDD Cup 2009: Expanded Linear Model, Heterogeneous Boosting, and Selective Naïve Bayes. In G. Dror et al., eds., Proceedings of KDD-Cup 2009 competition, vol. 7 of JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, 57-64, 2009. [[http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/paper/doc/wskdd09cup.pdf|link]]