We are excited to host John Langford speaking on Real World Reinforcement Learning
Talk:
We’ve created a dozen real world reinforcement learning deployments enabling use cases around contextual personalization and contextual optimization culminating in the new Cognitive Services Personalizer (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/personalizer/) which makes these techniques available to the world on a mass scale. I’ll discuss the key technology (and papers) behind this along with the possibilities that it allows. Amongst other things, the counterfactual evaluation system we’ve created makes optimization over policies radically faster and friendlier than A/B testing.
Bio:
John Langford is a machine learning research scientist, a field which he says "is shifting from an academic discipline to an industrial tool". He is the author of the weblog http://hunch.net/ and the principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit (http://hunch.net/~vw/). John works at Microsoft Research New York, of which he was one of the founding members.
