This is a very simple test of vowpal wabbit's contextual bandits using the dataset from Tony Jebara's ML for Personalization class at Columbia. Specifically I wanted to see what varying the cb_type
param would do.
- Instructions: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jebara/6998/hw2.pdf
- Dataset link: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jebara/6998/dataset.txt
The results here are surprising (to me) in that the take rate varies so much by cb_type. Is that expected behavior?