Exploration vs Exploitation: A Deep Dive into the Multi-Armed Bandit

Take a deep dive into the multi-armed bandit problem, the math behind balancing exploration and exploitation. Using the slot-machine analogy, we’ll unpack regret, best-arm identification, and a spectrum of strategies—from epsilon-greedy and Thompson Sampling to knowledge-gradient pricing—and explore their real-world applications in clinical trials, adaptive routing, and finance. Whether you’re after intuition, algorithms, or practical guidelines for choosing the right strategy given time and risk, this episode has you covered.

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