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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by OMKAR MURALIDHARAN Many machine learning applications have some kind of regression at their core, so understanding large-scale regression systems is important. But most common machine learning methods don’t give posteriors, and many don’t have explicit probability models. For more on ad CTR estimation, refer to [2].

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