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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Samuel Yusuf on Collaborative Filtering

Ingrid Xu August 14th, 2019

Wayfair sells over 10 million products on our website. This vast selection ensures that customers have numerous options when shopping for a particular item; but it also makes effective, personalized product recommendations of vital importance in helping our customers find products that are relevant to their interests. This week in……

Wayfair DS Explains It All: Zephy McKanna on Multi-Armed Bandits

Ingrid Xu February 19th, 2019

This week, Zephy McKanna sets out to explain Multi-Armed bandits. Here at Wayfair, we are constantly testing new algorithms, product sort orders, marketing, and other messages using epsilon-first Multi-Armed Bandits – also known as A/B tests. We are also employing some more interesting MAB algorithms, like Thompson Sampling, to dynamically……

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Samuel Yusuf on Collaborative Filtering

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Wayfair DS Explains It All: Zephy McKanna on Multi-Armed Bandits