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Can AutoML outperform humans? An evaluation on popular OpenML datasets using AutoML Benchmark

Machine Learning 2020-12-16 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

In the last few years, Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has gained much attention. With that said, the question arises whether AutoML can outperform results achieved by human data scientists. This paper compares four AutoML frameworks on 12 different popular datasets from OpenML; six of them supervised classification tasks and the other six supervised regression ones. Additionally, we consider a real-life dataset from one of our recent projects. The results show that the automated frameworks perform better or equal than the machine learning community in 7 out of 12 OpenML tasks.

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@article{arxiv.2009.01564,
  title  = {Can AutoML outperform humans? An evaluation on popular OpenML datasets using AutoML Benchmark},
  author = {Marc Hanussek and Matthias Blohm and Maximilien Kintz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01564},
  year   = {2020}
}

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To be published in AIRC 2020 Conference Proceedings