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NIPS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We formulate and study a new variant of the k-armed bandit problem, motivated by e-commerce applications. In our model, arms have (stochastic) lifetime after which they expire. In...
ECML
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
The multi-armed bandit problem for a gambler is to decide which arm of a K-slot machine to pull to maximize his total reward in a series of trials. Many real-world learning and opt...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper is concerned with the question of how to online combine an ensemble of active learners so as to expedite the learning progress during a pool-based active learning sessi...