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Forecasting the nearly unforecastable: why aren't airline bookings adhering to the prediction algorithm?
2021
Electronic Commerce Research
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A unique aspect of the model is the incorporation of self-competence, where the model defers when it cannot reasonably make a recommendation. ...
We then compare the performance of the Next Likely Destination model in a real-life consumer study with 35,000 actual airline customers. ...
Acknowledgements We thank the international airline company for its collaboration in this research. ...
doi:10.1007/s10660-021-09457-0
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Collaborative Filtering Bandits
2016
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - SIGIR '16
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In this work, we investigate an adaptive clustering technique for content recommendation based on exploration-exploitation strategies in contextual multi-armed bandit settings. ...
We also provide a regret analysis within a standard linear stochastic noise setting. ...
We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments. The first author thanks the support from MIUR and QCRI-HBKU. ...
doi:10.1145/2911451.2911548
dblp:conf/sigir/LiKG16
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Data-driven software design with Constraint Oriented Multi-variate Bandit Optimization (COMBO)
2020
Empirical Software Engineering
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Method The toolkit was validated in a proof-of-concept by implementing two features that are relevant to Apptus, an e-commerce company that develops algorithms for web shops. ...
Context Software design in e-commerce can be improved with user data through controlled experiments (i.e. A/B tests) to better meet user needs. ...
Validation Company and e-Commerce The validation company Apptus is a small Swedish company which develops a platform for e-commerce. ...
doi:10.1007/s10664-020-09856-1
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Collaborative Filtering Bandits
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2016
arXiv
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In this work, we investigate an adaptive clustering technique for content recommendation based on exploration-exploitation strategies in contextual multi-armed bandit settings. ...
We also provide a regret analysis within a standard linear stochastic noise setting. ...
We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments. The first author thanks the support from MIUR and QCRI-HBKU. ...
arXiv:1502.03473v7
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Reinforcement Learning in Practice: Opportunities and Challenges
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2022
arXiv
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Then we discuss opportunities of RL, in particular, products and services, games, bandits, recommender systems, robotics, transportation, finance and economics, healthcare, education, combinatorial optimization ...
This article is a gentle discussion about the field of reinforcement learning in practice, about opportunities and challenges, touching a broad range of topics, with perspectives and without technical ...
That is, recommendation is about decision making. Here we take the narrow view of recommendations as discussed above, in particular, in Web and e-commerce applications. ...
arXiv:2202.11296v2
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Mitigating Bias in Algorithmic Systems - A Fish-Eye View
2021
Zenodo
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Mitigating bias in algorithmic systems is a critical issue drawing attention across communities within the information and computer sciences. ...
Given the complexity of the problem and the involvement of multiple stakeholders – including developers, end-users and third-parties – there is a need to understand the landscape of the sources of bias ...
[143] detect the groups in the dataset that are unfairly treated by the classifier by developing an exploration-exploitation based strategy. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6240582
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CHAMELEON: A Deep Learning Meta-Architecture for News Recommender Systems [Phd. Thesis]
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2019
arXiv
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A method is proposed for a realistic temporal offline evaluation of such task, replaying the stream of user clicks and fresh articles being continuously published in a news portal. ...
problem, when compared to other traditional and state-of-the-art session-based recommendation algorithms. ...
Their experimental results on an e-commerce dataset and on a movies dataset have shown that the CA-RNN outperformed other competitive sequential and context-aware models. ...
arXiv:2001.04831v1
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Search Engines that Learn from Their Users
2016
SIGIR Forum
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For this reason it is vital to have a diverse set of experimental systems contributing to the pooling. ...
The online and offline metrics together thus tell us how the system dealt with the exploration-exploitation trade off [178] . ...
In OpenSearch, our living labs setting, we focus exclusively on head queries for a number of reasons: 1. This allows us to evaluate experimental search systems on the same set of queries. 2. ...
doi:10.1145/2964797.2964817
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Deep Reinforcement Learning, a textbook
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2022
arXiv
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The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of deep reinforcement learning. ...
We assume an undergraduate-level of understanding of computer science and artificial intelligence; the programming language of this book is Python. ...
Bandit Theory The exploration/exploitation trade-o , the question of how to get the most reliable information at the least cost, has been studied extensively in the literature [346, 845] . ...
arXiv:2201.02135v2
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Distributed reinforcement learning for adaptive and robust network intrusion response
2015
Connection science
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The increasing adoption of technologies and the exponential growth of networks has made the area of information technology an integral part of our lives, where network security plays a vital role. ...
Such an attack is designed to exhaust a server's resources or congest a network's infrastructure, and therefore ...
Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off The exploration-exploitation trade-off constitutes a critical issue in the design of an RL agent. ...
doi:10.1080/09540091.2015.1031082
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Counterfactual Evaluation And Learning From Logged User Feedback
2017
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We will view these applications through the lens of causal inference and modularize the problem of building a good ranking engine or recommender system into two components -first, infer a plausible assignment ...
This study will yield new learning principles, algorithms and insights into the design of statistical estimators for counterfactual learning. ...
For training directly from user interactions, the current state of the art explore-exploit algorithms demand interactive experimental control over the actions of a system to decide under uncertainty effectively ...
doi:10.7298/x4fj2dw6
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Machine Learning for Marketing Decision Support
2020
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These results form the basis for a machine-learning-based system for the detection and deletion of tracking elements from emails. ...
An analysis of data collection practices in direct marketing emails reveals the ubiquity of tracking mechanisms without user consent in e-commerce communication. ...
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Data and Experimental Setting The experimental setting is based on a real-time targeting process in e-commerce. ...
doi:10.18452/21554
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Choices, Risks, and Reward Reports: Charting Public Policy for Reinforcement Learning Systems
2022
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Building on the "model cards" and "datasheets" frameworks proposed by Mitchell et al. and Gebru et al., we argue the need for Reward Reports for AI systems. ...
We argue that criteria for these choices may be drawn from emerging subfields within antitrust, tort, and administrative law. ...
The authors also wish to thank the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and the Center for Human-Compatible AI for supporting previous stages of research resulting in this paper. ...
doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.05716
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Conversational Information Seeking
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2022
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Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions between one or more users and an information system. ...
Interactions in CIS are primarily based on natural language dialogue, while they may include other types of interactions, such as click, touch, and body gestures. ...
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the sponsors. ...
doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.08808
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Improved empirical methods in reinforcement-learning evaluation
2015
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We also develop a formal framework for characterizing the "capacity" of a space of parameterized RL algorithms and bound the generalization error of a set of algorithms on a distribution of RL environments ...
Second, we develop a method for evaluating RL algorithms offline using a static collection of data. ...
is known as the exploration-exploitation tradeoff (Sutton, 1988) . ...
doi:10.7282/t34x59h0
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