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Ask HN: Can some one point me to starters read on Multi-armed Bandit problems?
I found some articles but they assumed that I have some background in the area. Can I get a starters guide quickly? I want to use it for news article recommendations.
- noduerme 15y agoeh, not sure if it's a business application or what, but I've dealt with similar things in code. To me the best way to do it is through recursive callbacks and modeling the problem over a large data set. Recently I've gotten into shoveling the output into Eureqa and letting it come up with close-fitting (unreadable and basically nonsensical) equations to model the results for faster processing of additional input after the fact. If I understand you correctly. Sorry I can't help more, it's not my area of expertise exactly...just something I've (been forced to) dabble with...
- san_dimitri 15y agohmm...similar situation. But mostly an academic scene. Have to perform some tests using MAB and I am asked to see if I can model my recommendation problem into MAB. But anyways thanks for the update. Do you have any quick pointers to start?