Kaggle's Flavours of Physics: application for the special "HEP meets ML" award

This solution scored 0.998150 on the Private Leaderboard of the Kaggle "Flavours of Physics: Finding τ → μμμ" competition. The model is based on ensemble of 20 feed-forward neural nets implemented with the help of the Keras library. In order to pass the correlation test and the agreement test the procedure of Transfer learning was implemented with help of additional "transductive" neural net (see Application for details).

Dependencies

• The Keras and Theano libraries should be installed
• The standard Python packages numpy, pandas, scipy, sklearn, h5py and cPickle are required
• The training and test datasets (the files training.csv and test.csv), just like test files for control channel (the files check_correlation.csv and check_agreement.csv) can be downloaded from here
• Pretrained models and exemplary submissions can be found in models and submission directories

How to generate the solution

1. Set up your paths in misc.py and run python misc.py to create necessary directories on your disk
2. Put the data files training.csv, test.csv, check_correlation.csv and check_agreement.csv in the data directory.
3. To train the Keras classifier run python model_keras.py. The trained model will be saved in the models/keras_model_20 directory, its predictions to submission and transductor directories.
4. Run python transductor_train.py and let transductor to generate several models. This may take a while. See transductor_train.py for details.
5. Run python transductor_decorrelate_models.py twice: first in 'dump' mode, second in 'decorrelate' mode. See transductor_decorrelate_models.py for details. The 'decorrelate' mode will generate submission, results will be written to transductor_submission.csv.