I am a machine learning researcher in the bay area. I received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in May 2014. I am interested in data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Yin Lou
Education
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Ph.D., Department of Computer Science
- Fudan University, Shanghai, China B.Sc., School of Computer Science
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China Visiting Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
2014
2009
2007
Recent Papers
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On Finding Bi-objective Pareto-optimal Fraud Prevention Rule Sets for Fintech Applications
Chengyao Wen and Yin Lou.
KDD'24, Barcelona, Spain. [PDF][BibTex] -
FeatureLTE: Learning to Estimate Feature Importance
Tianping Zhang, Zhaoyang Wang, Chen Qian, Jian Li, and Yin Lou.
PACMMOD 2(3), 2024. [PDF][BibTex] -
Fanglue: An Interactive System for Decision Rule Crafting
Chen Qian, Shiwei Liang, Zhaoyang Wang, and Yin Lou.
PVLDB 16(12), 2023. [PDF][BibTex] -
Feature Augmentation with Reinforcement Learning
Jiabin Liu, Chengliang Chai, Yuyu Luo, Yin Lou, Jianhua Feng, and Nan Tang.
ICDE'22, Virtual Event, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [PDF][BibTex] -
Using Explainable Boosting Machines (EBMs) to Detect Common Flaws in Data
Zhi Chen, Sarah Tan, Harsha Nori, Kori Inkpen, Yin Lou and Rich Caruana.
XKDD'21, Virtual Event, Bilbao, Spain. [PDF][BibTex] -
Efficiently Training Intelligible Models for Global Explanations
Yin Lou, Yongliang Wang, Shiwei Liang, and Yang Dong.
CIKM'20, Virtual Event, Ireland. [PDF][BibTex] -
Axiomatic Interpretability for Multiclass Additive Models
Xuezhou Zhang, Sarah Tan, Paul Koch, Yin Lou, Urszula Chajewska, and Rich Caruana.
KDD'19, Anchorage, AK, USA. [PDF][BibTex] -
Generating Data Series Workloads
Kostas Zoumpatianos, Yin Lou, Ioana Ileana, Themis Palpanas, and Johannes Gehrke.
VLDBJ 27(6), 2018. [PDF][BibTex] -
Distill-and-Compare: Auditing Black-Box Models Using Transparent Model Distillation
Sarah Tan, Rich Caruana, Giles Hooker, and Yin Lou.
AIES'18, New Orleans, LA, USA. [PDF][BibTex] -
BDT: Boosting Decision Tables for High Accuracy and Scoring Efficiency
Yin Lou and Mikhail Obukhov.
KDD'17, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. [PDF][Doc][BibTex] -
Sparse Partially Linear Additive Models
Yin Lou, Jacob Bien, Rich Caruana, and Johannes Gehrke.
JCGS 25(4), 2016. [PDF][BibTex] -
Intelligible Models for HealthCare: Predicting Pneumonia Risk and Hospital 30-day Readmission
Rich Caruana, Yin Lou, Johannes Gehrke, Paul Koch, Marc Sturm, and Noémie Elhadad.
KDD'15, Sydney, Australia. [PDF][BibTex] -
Query Workloads for Data Series Indexes
Kostas Zoumpatianos, Yin Lou, Themis Palpanas, and Johannes Gehrke.
KDD'15, Sydney, Australia. [PDF][BibTex] -
Intelligible Models: Recovering Low Dimensional Additive Structure for Machine Learning Models
Yin Lou.
Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 2014. -
Accurate Intelligible Models with Pairwise Interactions
Yin Lou, Rich Caruana, Johannes Gehrke, and Giles Hooker.
KDD'13, Chicago, IL, USA. [PDF][Doc][BibTex] -
MatchMiner: Efficient Spanning Structure Mining in Large Image Collections
Yin Lou, Noah Snavely, and Johannes Gehrke.
ECCV'12, Florence, Italy. [PDF][Website][BibTex] -
Intelligible Models for Classification and Regression
Yin Lou, Rich Caruana, and Johannes Gehrke.
KDD'12, Beijing, China. [PDF][Slides][Doc][BibTex]
Software
- MLTK A machine learning tool kit with various algorithms for supervised learning.
Work History
- Ant Group, Sunnyvale, CA Staff Algorithm Engineer
- Airbnb, San Francisco, CA Software Engineer, Machine Learning
- LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA Senior Data Scientist
- LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA Data Scientist Intern
- Microsoft Research/Bing, Bellevue, WA Research Intern
- Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA Research Intern
- Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China Research Intern
Auguest 2018 -
April 2016 - August 2018
June 2014 - April 2016
May 2013 - August 2013
May 2012 - August 2012
May 2011 - August 2011
January 2009 - May 2009
Awards
- AMiner AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar in Data Mining, Honorable Mention, 2022
- ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-Year Impact Award, 2019
- Capital One Statistics Modeling Competition, Finalist, 2012
- Stars of Tomorrow, Microsoft Research Asia, 2009
- Excellent Graduate of Shanghai, 2009
- Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship, 1st Prize, 2009
- Wangdao Scholar, 2008
- Chiang Chen Overseas Graduate Fellowship (10 recipients in China), 2008
- Chinese National Scholarship, 2007 - 2008
- Dean's List, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007
- China HP Excellent Student Scholarship, 2007
- Tung Orient Overseas Container Line Scholarship, 2006