{"id":8305306,"date":"2017-12-03T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=8305306"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T14:46:21","slug":"vowpal-wabbit-8-5-0-nips-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=8305306","title":{"rendered":"Vowpal Wabbit 8.5.0 &#038; NIPS tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I tagged <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JohnLangford\/vowpal_wabbit\/releases\/tag\/8.5.0\">VW version 8.5.0<\/a> which has many interactive learning improvements (both contextual bandit and active learning), better support for sparse models, and a new baseline reduction which I&#8217;m considering making a part of the default update rule.  <\/p>\n<p>If you want to know the details, we&#8217;ll be doing a mini-tutorial during the Friday lunch break at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manikvarma.org\/events\/XC17\/index.html\">Extreme Classification workshop<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/nips.cc\">NIPS<\/a>.  Please join us if interested. <\/p>\n<p>Edit: also announced at the <a href=\"http:\/\/learningsys.org\/nips17\/schedule.html\">Learning Systems workshop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I tagged VW version 8.5.0 which has many interactive learning improvements (both contextual bandit and active learning), better support for sparse models, and a new baseline reduction which I&#8217;m considering making a part of the default update rule. If you want to know the details, we&#8217;ll be doing a mini-tutorial during the Friday lunch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=8305306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vowpal Wabbit 8.5.0 &#038; NIPS tutorial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4,42,74,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active","category-announcements","category-code","category-interactive","category-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8305306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8305306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8305306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}