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Online Learning & Custom Decision Services
Summary
Markus Cozowicz and John Langford talk about the new system they have created which automates exploit-explore strategies, data gathering, and learning to create useable online interactive learning. For problems such as content personalization, sophisticated interactive online machine learning is now available to programmers. For data scientists, this is a new tool for solving unsolvable problems.
Bio
Markus Cozowicz is Senior Research Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Research New York. John Langford works at Microsoft Research New York, of which he was one of the founding members. He is the author of the weblog hunch.net and the principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit.
About the conference
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