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Title Overcoming the Cold Start Problem for Personalized Reinforcement Learning
Abstract A problem that all data-driven approaches for personalization suffer from is the cold start problem: in the beginning, very few experiences with the user are available, making it nearly impossible to provide a good level of personalization while this is precisely the period where the user should become engaged. In this talk, I will explain a new approach that improves the speed and the performance of reinforcement learning in the context of personalization.