The World Needs more Bandits

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More Bandits @lukasvermeer The World Needs

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More Bandits@lukasvermeer

The World Needs

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we are all in the business of running experiments

we run experiments, because we need to know that what we do is

good for our business

our most important KPI is how many successful experiments we run

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Multi-Armed Banditsgetting the most out of your experiments

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A/B Test (Epsilon First)the gold standard for (business) experiments

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Exploration/Exploitationexperiments cost money

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Regretminimizing the cost of your experiments

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Greedy Banditcontrolled exploration

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Thompson Banditexploit as much as you dare

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Contextual Banditsfar beyond basic bandit experiments

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Start Nowmaximize experimentation – minimize costs

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we are all in the business of running experiments

we run experiments, because we need to know that what we do is

good for our business

our most important KPI is how many successful experiments we do

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More Bandits@lukasvermeer

The World Needs