Re: Recommenders and MABs

2016-09-21 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
there's been a great blog on that somewhere on richrelevance blog... But i have a vague feeling based on what you are saying it may be all old news to you... [1] http://engineering.richrelevance.com/bandits-recommendation-systems/ and there's more in the series On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Pa

Recommenders and MABs

2016-09-17 Thread Pat Ferrel
I’ve been thinking about how one would implement an application that only shows recommendations. This is partly because people want to build such things. There are many problems with this including cold start and overfit. However these problems also face MABs and are solved with sampling schemes