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Data Party THU
Data Party THU
Aug 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Master Online and Offline Policy Learning in Massive Action Spaces

This article reviews a PhD thesis that systematically studies online and offline learning for contextual bandits with huge action spaces, highlighting statistical, computational, and optimization challenges and presenting mixed‑effect Thompson sampling, diffusion priors, structured direct methods, and PAC‑Bayes pessimism as effective solutions.

PAC-BayesThompson samplingcontextual bandits
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How to Master Online and Offline Policy Learning in Massive Action Spaces
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Jul 30, 2026 · Industry Insights

What an 8.8 M‑User Experiment Shows About the True Limits of Agent‑Based Marketing

A longitudinal study of 8.8 million users over 11 months demonstrates that while agentic marketing can sustain performance after human optimization stops, its gains eventually decay, highlighting the emerging “Agentic CDP” model where AI handles baseline decisions while humans drive growth.

AI PersonalizationAgentic MarketingCustomer Data Platform
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What an 8.8 M‑User Experiment Shows About the True Limits of Agent‑Based Marketing
HomeTech
HomeTech
Jun 10, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Exploitation & Exploration Algorithms in Recommender Systems: ε‑Greedy, UCB, and Thompson Sampling Applications

This article introduces recommender systems and the exploitation‑exploration dilemma, explains common E&E algorithms such as ε‑greedy, Upper‑Confidence‑Bound, and Thompson Sampling, and details their practical deployment for interest‑point eviction, selection, and adaptive recall count optimization in an automotive recommendation platform.

Bandit AlgorithmsEpsilon-GreedyExploitation
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Exploitation & Exploration Algorithms in Recommender Systems: ε‑Greedy, UCB, and Thompson Sampling Applications
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Apr 19, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Bandit Algorithms for Recommendation Systems: Context‑Free, Thompson Sampling, and Contextual Approaches

This article explains how multi‑armed bandit methods such as Upper Confidence Bound, Thompson Sampling, and their contextual extensions can address cold‑start, diversity, and bias problems in large‑scale recommendation systems, describing practical update mechanisms, offline evaluation techniques, and deployment experiences at Ctrip.

AIBandit AlgorithmsExploration‑exploitation
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Bandit Algorithms for Recommendation Systems: Context‑Free, Thompson Sampling, and Contextual Approaches
21CTO
21CTO
Jul 1, 2017 · Product Management

Why Simple Click Counts Fail: Smarter Scoring Strategies for Content Recommendation

The article recounts a junior engineer's journey improving a news app's recommendation system, moving from naive click counts to recent clicks, CTR, lower confidence bounds, and advanced multi‑armed bandit techniques like UCB and Thompson Sampling to balance relevance and novelty.

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Why Simple Click Counts Fail: Smarter Scoring Strategies for Content Recommendation