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ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Learning to Rank Online
Abstract. As retrieval systems become more complex, learning to rank approaches are being developed to automatically tune their parameters. Using online learning to rank approaches...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
KDD
2010
ACM
289views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Exploitation and exploration in a performance based contextual advertising system
The dynamic marketplace in online advertising calls for ranking systems that are optimized to consistently promote and capitalize better performing ads. The streaming nature of on...
Wei Li 0010, Xuerui Wang, Ruofei Zhang, Ying Cui, ...
ICDM
2005
IEEE
163views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation: A New Algorithm for Active Machine Learning
Active machine learning algorithms are used when large numbers of unlabeled examples are available and getting labels for them is costly (e.g. requiring consulting a human expert)...
Thomas Takeo Osugi, Kun Deng, Stephen D. Scott
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Online exploration in least-squares policy iteration
One of the key problems in reinforcement learning is balancing exploration and exploitation. Another is learning and acting in large or even continuous Markov decision processes (...
Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman, Christopher R. Mans...
GECCO
2005
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
An autonomous explore/exploit strategy
In reinforcement learning problems it has been considered that neither exploitation nor exploration can be pursued exclusively without failing at the task. The optimal balance bet...
Alex McMahon, Dan Scott, William N. L. Browne