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The silver shotgun: A bunch of silver bullets

Our short summary of Mercado Libre’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Income estimates varied across cities and neighborhoods, hurting credit decisions.

Solution

They split data by location and user type, train separate models for each slice, and blend the outputs into one prediction.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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