PetFinder Pawpularity

Predict pet photo popularity scores to optimize adoption profile images.

Multimodal RMSE EfficientNet + Ridge Fusion

Feature Importance

image_embedding 0.35 blur_score 0.12 eyes_visible 0.12 face_count 0.10 color_score 0.10 background 0.08 metadata 0.08

Key Insights

1st place used RAPIDS SVR with image embeddings. Multi-modal fusion (image + tabular metadata) via embedding concatenation + simple regressor.