contextual: Simulation and Analysis of Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Policies

Facilitates the simulation and evaluation of context-free and contextual multi-Armed Bandit policies or algorithms to ease the implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of both existing and new bandit algorithms and policies.

Version: 0.9.8.4
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: R6 (≥ 2.3.0), data.table, R.devices, foreach, doParallel, itertools, iterators, Formula, rjson
Suggests: testthat, RCurl, splitstackshape, covr, knitr, here, rmarkdown, devtools, ggplot2, vdiffr
Published: 2020-07-25
Author: Robin van Emden ORCID iD [aut, cre], Maurits Kaptein ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Robin van Emden <robinvanemden at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Nth-iteration-labs/contextual/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/Nth-iteration-labs/contextual
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: contextual results

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Reference manual: contextual.pdf
Vignettes: Demo: Basic Synthetic cMAB Policies
Demo: Offline cMAB LinUCB evaluation
Demo: MAB Replication Eckles & Kaptein (Bootstrap Thompson Sampling)
Demo: Basic Epsilon Greed
Getting started: running simulations
Demo: MAB Policies Comparison
Demo: MovieLens 10M Dataset
Demo: Offline cMAB: CarsKit DePaul Movie Dataset
Offline evaluation: Replication of Li et al 2010
Demo: Bandits, Propensity Weighting & Simpson's Paradox in R
Demo: Replication Sutton & Barto, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Chapter 2
Demo: Replication of John Myles White, Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization
Package source: contextual_0.9.8.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: contextual_0.9.8.4.zip, r-release: contextual_0.9.8.4.zip, r-oldrel: contextual_0.9.8.4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release: contextual_0.9.8.4.tgz, r-oldrel: contextual_0.9.8.4.tgz
Old sources: contextual archive

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