Vowpal Wabbit – Paul Mineiro ODSC Boston 2015

Vowpal Wabbit is both an open-source machine learning toolkit and an active research platform. In this talk I introduce Vowpal Wabbit, discuss some of the design decisions, and the types of problems for which VW is (or is not) a good fit. The talk includes (live) demonstrations some of the latest features for recommendation, contextual bandit, and structured prediction problems.

Presenter Bio

Paul has more than 10 years of experience leveraging machine learning to solve internet-scale data problems, primarily in search, computational advertising, and social networking. He is currently at Microsoft’s Cloud and Information Services Laboratory developing distributed algorithms for representation learning.