Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems

Re:Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems by crisbal_ on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:52AM (#17010814)

As someone who is doing his bachelor thesis on Reinforcement Learning this is some useful information.

OT (but not really) question: does anyone here use Reinforcement Learning techniques at work? For the thesis I am working on black-box optimization of 2 variable functions with Reinforcement Learning (and comparing it with Bayesian Optimization techniques).

As someone else suggested the Sutton & Barto book is really great knowledge but I would also like to suggest these lessons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0) by David Silver (who worked on AlphaGo)

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Re:Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems by chudi on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:45PM (#17014207)

We used it to discover the best picture of a product in terms of click trough rate, we also found that the end user really don't want you to change the order of the pictures of their products

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Re:Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:39AM (#17013070)

I regularly use reinforcement methods for simple robotics problems. TensorFlow, et al. have made their use practical.

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