Category "vowpalwabbit"

How to do warm start and use vowpal wabbit for contextual bandits

I wanted to implement contextual bandits in vowpal wabbit. I wanted to use it for an email campaign (new) which have 5 different variants of emails. I have hist

In contextual bandit for Vowpal wabbit, does the --cb_explore option includes training an optimum predictor (--cb option) as well?

When using Vowpal wabbit for contextual bandits, here is my understanding so far, We can build a predictor model for predicting the rewards We can also then us

Vowpal Wabbit negative weights significance

I'm doing a feature study and I was wondering what the negative feature weights in the audit output signify. I'm currently using the contextual bandits function

vowpal wabbit java: get raw predictions

I am using Java API of vowpal wabbit to get predictions. I need raw prediction (same as -r output.txt) but I couldn't find any such method in VWMulticlassLearne

Errors due to vowpal wabbit's dependencies on boost library

I'm trying real hard to install vowpal wobbit and it fails when i run the make file, throwing: cd library; make; cd .. g++ -g -o ezexample temp2.cc -