# Kitten Adoption Times — References

## Data sources
- PetFinder.my Adoption Prediction (Kaggle competition dataset by PetFinder.my): shelter intake/adoption records with health notes and pet photos (used for image embeddings).

## Models & methods
- Survival analysis for time-to-event modeling
- Class balancing strategies for imbalanced outcomes
- Grad-CAM explainability for CNN features
- Partial dependence plots for tabular features

## Tooling & infra
- PyTorch docs
- FastAPI docs (serving)
- Pandas documentation

## Articles / background
- Research on shelter animal length-of-stay modeling
- Guides on practical interpretability for computer vision