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tjbai

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    I agree that there's an exploration-exploitation tradeoff, but for what you specifically suggest wouldn't you presumably just normalize by sample size? You wouldn't allocate based …

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    From a purely technical definition of bias (difference in expected value of the estimator and the true value), MAB is not biased because "changing the experiment parameters" is jus…

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    The last hidden state is just the output embedding after N residual layers, e.g. input embedding + res1 + res2 + ... There's typically an "unembedding layer"/"classification head" …

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    Something can be inconsequential and yet still interesting/amusing

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    > The multi-armed bandit is a really interesting problem in mathematical optimization... This problem is so interesting, in fact, that during World War II the Allies proposed air d…