{"id":11712,"date":"2020-09-24T08:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2020-09-24T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T12:04:45","slug":"multi-armed-bandits-and-the-stitch-fix-experimentation-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/multi-armed-bandits-and-the-stitch-fix-experimentation-platform\/11712\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Armed Bandits and the Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"Multi-armed bandits have become a popular alternative to traditional A\/B testing for online experimentation at Stitch Fix. We\u2019ve recently decided to extend our experimentation platform to include multi-armed bandits as a first-class feature. This post gives an overview of our experimentation platform architecture, explains some of the theory behind multi-armed bandits, and finally shows how we incorporate them into our platform. Primer: The Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform Before getting into the details of multi-armed bandits, you\u2019ll first need to know a little bit about how our experimentation platform works. In our previous post on building a centralized experimentation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/multi-armed-bandits-and-the-stitch-fix-experimentation-platform\/11712\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-armed bandits have become a popular alternative to traditional A\/B testing for online experimentation at Stitch Fix. We\u2019ve recently decided to extend our experimentation platform to include multi-armed bandits as a first-class feature. This post gives an overview of our experimentation platform architecture, explains some of the theory behind multi-armed bandits, and finally shows how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[59,243,8],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-analytics","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11713,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions\/11713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}