Personal site of Alex Paino, researcher at OpenAI.
Projects
Uses sequence-to-sequence models to automatically correct simple errors in conversational written English. The latest results of the project (as described in this post) show that it significantly outperforms an identity function baseline. Code is available on GitHub along with a more thorough description here.
Articles
ML Experiments at Sift Science, Pt. 3: Building the Right Tools
January 2017, Sift Science Blog
The finale of this series, this post discusses tools we have built that make it easy to correctly conduct and analyze experiments, with an emphasis on improving the productivity of the larger engineering organization.
ML Experiments at Sift Science, Part 2: Analyzing Thousands of Models
December 2016, Sift Science Blog
The second in a three-part series on ML experimentation at Sift Science, this post describes how we efficiently and effectively analyze the results of ML experiments involving several thousand models.
ML Experiments at Sift Science, Part 1: Minimizing Bias
December 2016, Sift Science Blog
The first in a three-part series on ML experimentation at Sift Science, this post details how we minimize bias in offline experiments.
Large Scale Decision Forests: Lessons Learned
August 2015, Sift Science Blog
A write-up of 7 lessons learned during our project to implement and deploy an in-house random forest model.
Talks
August 2015, Sift Science
I gave a tech talk on the same subject discussed in Large Scale Decision Forests: Lessons Learned.
Publications
2014: A method of evolving novel feature extraction algorithms for detecting buried objects in FLIR imagery using genetic programming Authors: Paino, Alex; Keller, James; Popescu, Mihail; Stone, Kevin
2013: Using evolutionary computation to optimize an SVM used in detecting buried objects in FLIR imagery Authors: Paino, Alex; Popescu, Mihail; Keller, James; Stone, Kevin
2012: Detection of buried objects in FLIR imaging using mathematical morphology and SVM Authors: Popescu, Mihail; Paino, Alex; Stone, Kevin; Keller, James