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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2012
Malcolm Slaney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bee-chung Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Deepak K. Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Malcolm Slaney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bee-Chung Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Deepak K. Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Software for initialized explore-exploit creates a plurality of probability distributions. Each of these probability distributions is generated by inputting a quantitative description of one or more features associated with an image into a regression model that outputs a probability distribution for a measure of engagingness for the image. Each of the images is conceptually related to the other images. The software uses the plurality of probability distributions to initialize a multi-armed bandit model that outputs a serving scheme for each of the images. Then the software serves a plurality of the images on a web page displaying search results, based at least in part on the serving scheme.