arXiv Machine Learning By Eugene Lee, Oseong Choi, Byungsoo Kang, Taeyeong Jang

LLM-Derived Priors for Thompson Sampling in Cold-Start Comment Recommendation

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arXiv:2608. 03382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-armed bandit algorithms, especially Thompson sampling, are widely used in online recommendation.

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