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most citedRecoGym: A Reinforcement Learning Environment for the problem of Product Recommendation in Online Advertising

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stat.ML2019★ 2 cited

Causal inference with Bayes rule

Finnian Lattimore, David Rohde

The concept of causality has a controversial history. The question of whether it is possible to represent and address causal problems with probability theory, or if fundamentally n…

stat.ML2019

Reconsidering Analytical Variational Bounds for Output Layers of Deep Networks

Otmane Sakhi, Stephen Bonner, David Rohde +1

The combination of the re-parameterization trick with the use of variational auto-encoders has caused a sensation in Bayesian deep learning, allowing the training of realistic gene…

cs.IR2019★ 5 cited

Learning from Bandit Feedback: An Overview of the State-of-the-art

Olivier Jeunen, Dmytro Mykhaylov, David Rohde +3

In machine learning we often try to optimise a decision rule that would have worked well over a historical dataset; this is the so called empirical risk minimisation principle. In…

cs.IR2019★ 8 cited

Recommendation System-based Upper Confidence Bound for Online Advertising

Nhan Nguyen-Thanh, Dana Marinca, Kinda Khawam +5

In this paper, the method UCB-RS, which resorts to recommendation system (RS) for enhancing the upper-confidence bound algorithm UCB, is presented. The proposed method is used for…

cs.IR2019★ 3 cited

On the Value of Bandit Feedback for Offline Recommender System Evaluation

Olivier Jeunen, David Rohde, Flavian Vasile

In academic literature, recommender systems are often evaluated on the task of next-item prediction. The procedure aims to give an answer to the question: "Given the natural sequen…

stat.ML2019

A Bayesian Solution to the M-Bias Problem

David Rohde

It is common practice in using regression type models for inferring causal effects, that inferring the correct causal relationship requires extra covariates are included or ``adjus…