AMLC Talk: Rachael Roland on Ensemble Models

The Deets:
Code Talent: 3412 Blake St, Denver, CO 80205
7pm-9pm
Pizza and Soda provided.

Join us at Code Talent for our Local Expert speaker series featuring the brilliant Rachael Roland for her talk "When GenAI Models Fail, Ensemble Models Win":

What do you do when your domain-specific NLP pipeline achieves only 85% accuracy, and a cutting-edge LLM (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) fails even harder at 46.7%?

This session presents a production case study from Applied Industrials, demonstrating how we combined two failing models into an Ensemble "Judge" System to achieve close to 100% accuracy on critical industrial data. We will explore how this pattern scales across 295,000+ records in four interconnected systems (Support, BOMs, Specs, Work Instructions) and why "ensemble thinking" is essential for production ML when singular models hit a ceiling.

Attendees will receive access to the ensemble-judge-classifier GitHub repository, which includes:
Complete ensemble classifier code (Python).
A Jupyter Notebook step-by-step implementation tutorial.
An ROI calculator (Excel + Python).
A statistical validation toolset.

Rachael is Owner and Chief Scientist of her AI Consultancy, Redbud AI.
You don't want to miss this talk!

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