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A comment on Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – A Deep Dive.

Re:Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – ... by mendeza on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:18PM (#18585451)
Why is Facebook getting into reinforcement learning? Are there applications of RL to improving social connections or extracting more data to sell to advertisers?
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Re:Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – ... by civicsquid on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:32PM (#18585501)
If you take a look at the announcement post for the framework, you can see some discussion about that: https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/horizon/

One application that they mention related (at least loosely) to social connections is deciding whether or not to deliver a notification to a user.

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Re:Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – ... by eismcc on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:44PM (#18586182)
That makes sense. At Twitter, I redesigned the notifications system to explicitly allow for ML based decisions such as this.
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Re:Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – ... by b_tterc_p on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:49AM (#18589136)
Any idea on what the objective function for such a thing would be?
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Re:Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – ... by taneq on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:53PM (#18585592)
I'd imagine that a company which exists entirely to collect huge amounts of data might have some interest in useful ways to automatically process that data.
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Re:Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – ... by bobbygoodlatte on Sunday December 02, 2018 @08:14PM (#18585680)
Most likely to make the News Feed more engaging
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