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May be a little OT but came across this technique called MABs multi armed bandits , related to , finding optimal ways to decide among a sequence of actions and
by tuxguy 4y ago
May be a little OT but came across this technique called MABs multi armed bandits , related to , finding optimal ways to decide among a sequence of actions and measuring their utility
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Has applications in a wide variety of fields : optimal design of clinical trials, public policy decision making.
apparently has some relation to the work abhijit banerjee & esther duflo, the nobel prize winning economist couple have done on design of experiments, to measure impact of developmental interventions
- mindcrime 4y agoNot OT at all, IMO. As it happens, the linked book actually touches on MAB problems explicitly, albeit briefly. And as the book points out, you can formulate a MAB problem as specific form of Markov Decision Process, and MDP's are referenced extensively in the book. I find MAB's incredibly interesting, and for pretty much the same reason(s) I find the rest of this stuff interesting.