CMAF Forum: What have we learnt from M5 Competition?
Channel: Lancaster CMAF
Date: 2020-12-13

This is a recording of a CMAF Forums on 8th December 2020, delivered by Robert Fildes and Shaohui Ma.

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00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Presentation of Robert Fildes
21:28 - Presentation by Shohui Ma
35:45 - Q&A session
56:10 - Closing remarks by Robert Fildes

The abstract: The M5 Kaggle competition based on the analysis of Walmart retail data has generated a lot of interest. It has convincingly demonstrated the performance of Machine Learning methods as broadly they have outperformed standard benchmarks. But what are we to make of the results and what research questions does his competition raise. We will start with a brief summary of the results and conclusions by Robert Fildes and Shaohui Ma and then invite extended comments or mini-presentations from participants.

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