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Causal contextual bandits with one-shot data integration [PDF]
We study a contextual bandit setting where the agent has access to causal side information, in addition to the ability to perform multiple targeted experiments corresponding to potentially different context-action pairs—simultaneously in one-shot within ...
Chandrasekar Subramanian +3 more
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Cost-Efficient Distributed Learning via Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits [PDF]
We consider the distributed stochastic gradient descent problem, where a main node distributes gradient calculations among n workers. By assigning tasks to all workers and waiting only for the k fastest ones, the main node can trade off the algorithm’s ...
Maximilian Egger +3 more
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Impacts of insecurity on recreation and tourism in Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria [PDF]
Insecurity has become a global phenomenon affected even the most advanced countries of the world such as the United States of America where periodic gun violence or mass shooting of unarmed civilians has been claiming many lives annually.
Iguda Ladan Suleiman
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A Contextual-Bandit-Based Approach for Informed Decision-Making in Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are conducted to evaluate the efficacy of new treatments. Clinical trials involving multiple treatments utilize the randomization of treatment assignments to enable the evaluation of treatment efficacies in an unbiased manner.
Yogatheesan Varatharajah, Brent Berry
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An Exploration On-demand Article Recommender System for Cancer Patients Information Provisioning
Information provision plays an important role in ed- ucating patients with serious illnesses, like cancer, to cope with their disease conditions and to actively partic- ipate in shared-decision making process.
Mohammad Mehdi Afsar +2 more
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The Indonesian poet and public figure Goenawan Mohamad published "Bandits" in the magazine Tempo , which was also published in the English version of Tempo . Reprinted by permission in the Journal of Transnational American Studies .
Mohamad Goenawan +1 more
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Bandits’ Struggle for Survival and its Humanitarian Impacts in Zamfara State, Nigeria
Over time, the conflict between farmers and herdsmen has intensified and transformed into banditry in Zamfara state. While literature underscores the causational and transformational issues, how desperate attempts of the bandits to survive led to fierce ...
Idris Saminu +2 more
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Alternative splicing is a biological process during gene expression that allows a single gene to code for multiple proteins. However, splicing patterns can be altered in some conditions or diseases.
Simone Tiberi, Mark D. Robinson
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Banditry in the Eastern Black Sea During the Crimean War: The Case of Captain Alphonse Belliot
In every period of history, times of war have led to the emergence of insecurity and much lawlessness throughout the land. In the middle of 1853, rumors of a new war with the Russians caused unrest in the Northeast Anatolia region, and this unrest ...
Özgür Yılmaz
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“The Bandits”, Vasile Ernu’s second volume of his trilogy, the trilogy of marginal men, describes the world of thieves, of bandits, of criminality in a communist society, without the narrator ever becoming one of them.
Iulia Stoichiţ
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