Search Results for author: Azin Ashkan

Found 8 papers, 0 papers with code

Does Weather Matter? Causal Analysis of TV Logs

no code implementations25 Jan 2017 Shi Zong, Branislav Kveton, Shlomo Berkovsky, Azin Ashkan, Nikos Vlassis, Zheng Wen

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first large-scale causal study of the impact of weather on TV watching patterns.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Combinatorial Cascading Bandits

no code implementations NeurIPS 2015 Branislav Kveton, Zheng Wen, Azin Ashkan, Csaba Szepesvari

The agent observes the index of the first chosen item whose weight is zero.

Cascading Bandits: Learning to Rank in the Cascade Model

no code implementations10 Feb 2015 Branislav Kveton, Csaba Szepesvari, Zheng Wen, Azin Ashkan

We also prove gap-dependent upper bounds on the regret of these algorithms and derive a lower bound on the regret in cascading bandits.

Learning-To-Rank

DUM: Diversity-Weighted Utility Maximization for Recommendations

no code implementations13 Nov 2014 Azin Ashkan, Branislav Kveton, Shlomo Berkovsky, Zheng Wen

The need for diversification of recommendation lists manifests in a number of recommender systems use cases.

Recommendation Systems

Tight Regret Bounds for Stochastic Combinatorial Semi-Bandits

no code implementations3 Oct 2014 Branislav Kveton, Zheng Wen, Azin Ashkan, Csaba Szepesvari

A stochastic combinatorial semi-bandit is an online learning problem where at each step a learning agent chooses a subset of ground items subject to constraints, and then observes stochastic weights of these items and receives their sum as a payoff.

Efficient Learning in Large-Scale Combinatorial Semi-Bandits

no code implementations28 Jun 2014 Zheng Wen, Branislav Kveton, Azin Ashkan

A stochastic combinatorial semi-bandit is an online learning problem where at each step a learning agent chooses a subset of ground items subject to combinatorial constraints, and then observes stochastic weights of these items and receives their sum as a payoff.

Thompson Sampling

Learning to Act Greedily: Polymatroid Semi-Bandits

no code implementations30 May 2014 Branislav Kveton, Zheng Wen, Azin Ashkan, Michal Valko

Many important optimization problems, such as the minimum spanning tree and minimum-cost flow, can be solved optimally by a greedy method.

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