Bandit Algorithms for Recommendation Systems

Re:Bandit Algorithms for Recommendation Systems by sergeyfeldman on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:13PM (#7835376)

Thanks for the comment. The third blog post in this series will discuss linear contextual bandits, for which I used Langford's VW.

It does a huge amount better.

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Re:Bandit Algorithms for Recommendation Systems by cbsmith on Monday June 02, 2014 @09:04PM (#7837584)

Yeah, in general, the contextual bandit approach seems to be a better strategy.

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