Finally, all my PhD code released under GPL!

The Bats toolbox (Bandit Algorithms and Tree Search) for Matlab is my first effort to release a significant amount of clean, open source code — and it comes with a great sense of achievement! Read the story behind it in this post, and check out the toolbox at http://louis.dorard.me/bats.

My PhD contribution on Tree Search

As I am progressing with the writing up of my thesis, here is an attempt to explain what my main contribution is about, in a way that should be understandable by people with a university-level background in mathematics. I am using Machine Learning techniques to search large spaces that have tree structures. An example of this is game AI where we look for sequences of moves that make us win the game. Read the full post…

Exploration vs exploitation: new workshop

On-line problems such as website optimisation require to trade exploration and exploitation in order to learn and optimise an unknown target. As you may already know from my Twitter feed, I am organising a challenge and a workshop on that topic on 2 July 2011 in Bellevue, Washington, during the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning. We’re calling for papers!

Who needs infrastructure?

This is the follow-up to my previous post, “Creating a webapp is so much easier these days!”, focusing now on infrastructures to host web applications. From your website and content to your application, see how cloud hosting can help you scale, and how streamlined deployment environments can save you the pain of setting up and maintaining a complex infrastructure. Read the full post…