Walmart Inc.
PERSONALIZED MECHANISMS TO RESOLVE EXPLORE-EXPLOIT DILEMMA WITH DYNAMICALLY SHARED LEARNINGS

Abstract:

A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: displaying content elements on one or more websites to users; performing a classification of the users into segments; receiving a request from a first user of the users to display a webpage of the one or more websites; determining an amount of information in a respective posterior distribution of each of the one or more first segments of the segments in which the first user is classified, for each of the content elements based on impression response data; selecting a selected content element from among the content elements based on weightings of the content elements for the one or more first segments; and generating the webpage comprising the selected content element. Other embodiments are disclosed.