Dr. Yisong Yue
The best offense has always been a good defense. Until now.
Thanks to a team of researchers at Disney Research, California Institute of Technology and STATS, we may soon find ourselves saying something more along the lines of, “The best offense is a defense informed by advanced machine learning technologies.”
In a paper titled, “Data Driven Ghosting using Deep Imitation Learning,” a team of researchers introduced a machine learning approach that can help sports teams better prepare for specific opponents by calculating that opponent’s most likely response to a hypothetical attack.