Kaggle Recommendation Competition 2022

Upstage had two teams place 19th and 41st respectively in the 'H&M Personalized Fashion Recommendations' Kaggle competition hosted by H&M, winning 2 silver medals. Despite joining the competition just 2 weeks before it ended, the two teams narrowed the gap with 1st place to 0.004 points and 0.007 points.

The competition ran for about 3 months starting this February, with a total of 3,006 teams competing. Upstage explained that it improved performance by using deep learning at the stage of selecting candidate items, then retraining the model with the adopted products, and compensated for the weaknesses of structured data by combining it with existing data processing models.

The company also announced that it recently placed 12th in the Happywhale - Whale and Dolphin Identification competition, earning its third gold medal this year. Based on these achievements, the company will continue developing its AI Recommendation Pack and AI Pack, and plans to launch a one-stop solution combining OCR, natural language processing search, and recommendation technology in the second half of the year.

Citing papers presented at international conferences such as NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, and EMNLP, as well as its Kaggle achievements, Upstage emphasized its AI technology leadership applicable to various industries including content, shopping, and portals. Leader Kim Sang-hoon said that despite the tight schedule, the team achieved gold and silver medal results within a month, and that he would use this to complete Upstage's AI Pack.