Exploration vs Exploitation Challenge

Challenge team

Schedule

2.00 – 2.30 Introduction and overview of the problem, Leonard Newnham, Touch Clarity

2.30 – 2.45 Results of phase 1 and launch phase 2, John Shawe-Taylor

2.45 – 3.15 Bandit problems and the UCB Algorithm, Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi

3.15 – 3.30 Challenge Tasks and Baseline Algorithms, Peter Auer

4.00 – 4.15 Solution 1, Cedric Hartland 4.15 – 4.30 Solution 2, John Shawe-Taylor 4.30 – 5.00 Solution 3, Levente Kocsis 5.00 – 5.05 Wrap up, Zakria Hussain

Exploration Vs Exploitation Challenge

Organizers Peter Auer Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi Zakria Hussain Jason McFall Leonard Newnham John Shawe-Taylor

Exploration Vs Exploitation Challenge (Phase 1) ‘Datasets’ were given out on 19th January

2006 along with 3 baseline algorithms (Java) Participants asked to write their own

algorithms and submit by 26th March 2006 We published seeds on 27th March 2006 Participants submitted their results using the

seeds by 31st March 2006

Exploration Vs Exploitation Challenge (Phase 1) 3 Participants

1 France 1 Hungary 1 England

Phase 2

Challenge still open until at least September 2006 Maybe even until next year! May present final results at ECML or NIPS or next

years PASCAL Challenges workshop Dates will be finalized within next month Same 3 types of task will be available PLUS: Other variations of tasks and some

more tasks

Phase 2

PRIZE: £1000 Participants algorithms will be judged on a

selection of tasks Details to be released through the website

Website

Challenge website: www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/EEC

If you planning to participate please email Zak zh03r@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Exploration Vs Exploitation Challenge Questions?