Selectively Contextual Bandits. (arXiv:2205.04528v1 [cs.LG])

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04528

Contextual bandits are widely used in industrial personalization systems.
These online learning frameworks learn a treatment assignment policy in the
presence of treatment effects that vary with the observed contextual features
of the users. While personalization creates a rich user experience that reflect
individual interests, there are benefits of a shared experience across a
community that enable participation in the zeitgeist. Such benefits are
emergent through network effects and are not captured in regret metrics
typically employed in evaluating bandits. …

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