Reflections from KDD 2023

My notes on talks I attended (mostly on LLMs) at 29th ACM SIGKDD 2023 at Long Beach, CA

End-to-End Inventory Prediction and Contract Allocation for Guaranteed Delivery Advertising

We proposed a novel end-to-end approach, the Neural Lagrangian Selling (NLS) model, to improve Guaranteed Delivery (GD) advertising by concurrently predicting ad impression inventory and optimizing contract allocation

Predicting Race, Age and Gender from Face: A Small-sample Example with Encoding

Predicting race, age and gender of faces using Variational Autoencoders and Convolutional Neural Networks.

Comparing two BIG data frames in Pandas

I needed to compare two data frames with over five million rows. I asked ChatGPT for help. I ended up learning about SHA-256 and hashes.

Crafting Conversations with GPT Personalities in Python

Building a customizable chatbot that brings unique characters to life