The corrected link : https://www.quora.com/In-what-kind-of-real-life-situations-can-we-use-a-multi-arm-bandit-algorithm <https://ml-trckr.com/link/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FIn-what-kind-of-real-life-situations-can-we-use-a-multi-arm-bandit-algorithm%C2%A0/dKLlEEqRjfHrSMxw3Ptt> ;
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:23 AM Touqir Sajed <tou...@ualberta.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > This email is intended to initiate a discussion on whether it is worth > adding Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) algorithms in Scikit-learn. For those of > you who have not heard of MAB algorithms, they are the simplest form of > decision-making algorithms applicable whenever data with labels are not > given beforehand and the objective is to try out different decisions, > whenever a sample is seen, and learn which decision is the best in the long > run. They are the simplest form of Reinforcement Learning algorithms. While > they are not applicable for every decision-making tasks, they naturally fit > into a number of problem settings where they are more sample efficient and > simpler than the more advanced RL algorithms. For a number of applications > : > https://www.quora.com/In-what-kind-of-real-life-situations-can-we-use-a-multi-arm-bandit-algorithm. > If > <https://ml-trckr.com/link/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FIn-what-kind-of-real-life-situations-can-we-use-a-multi-arm-bandit-algorithm.%C2%A0If/0oMKOPmYKsXmGqYdOxqi> > you want to know more about their usage, how they work or their advantages, > feel free to let me know! > > I do feel that MAB algorithms should be a part of Scikit-learn since a lot > of the interesting problems that we face regarding learning is about > decision making. There are quite a few github repos with MAB > implementations but their coverage is extremely limited and I do not know > of any dedicated library on MABs. Companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, Google > use MABs for Ad recommendation and search engine optimization but their > code is not made public. > > Cheers, > Touqir > > -- > Computing Science Master's student at University of Alberta, Canada, > specializing in Machine Learning. Website : > https://ca.linkedin.com/in/touqir-sajed-6a95b1126 > <https://ml-trckr.com/link/https%3A%2F%2Fca.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Ftouqir-sajed-6a95b1126/0oMKOPmYKsXmGqYdOxqi> > -- Computing Science Master's student at University of Alberta, Canada, specializing in Machine Learning. Website : https://ca.linkedin.com/in/touqir-sajed-6a95b1126
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