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Vowpal Wabbit, A Machine Learning System
Summary
John Langford discusses how to use Vowpal Wabbit in and as a machine learning system including architecture, unique capabilities, and applications. He goes into detail about the use in the context of a decision service for personalized news recommendation.
Bio
John Langford is a machine learning research scientist. He works at Microsoft Research New York, of which he was one of the founding members, and was previously affiliated with Yahoo! Research, Toyota Technological Institute, and IBM's Watson Research Center. He was the program co-chair for the 2012 International Conference on Machine Learning.
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