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evolutioner

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    Comment #16654046

    You're right, the paper linked above is a different way of solving the same problem. In their case they use a model to decide which website variants to show. Their model accounts f…

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    Comment #16653195

    They can actually work together. Thompson Sampling / Multi-armed bandit algorithms are traffic allocation strategies to use the least amount of traffic to find the optimal variant.…

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    Comment #16652472

    Each generation has like 10~20 candidate websites. The better the conversion rate, the more likely it is to get chosen as a parent. With your example, let's say two parents with to…

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    Comment #16651848

    Sentient employee here. I'll give an example on a problem for which we use evolutionary algorithms: website optimization. Say you want to try many various changes like the title of…