Awesome Vowpal Wabbit - VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit GitHub Wiki

This page contains a curated list of examples, research, videos, tutorials, and blogs about Vowpal Wabbit usecases.

Companies

Yahoo used Vowpal Wabbit for personalized spam filtering.
eHarmony uses Vowpal Wabbit for recommendation. Code. Presentation by Zhen.
Microsoft implemented Vowpal Wabbit as part of Azure ML.
Nanigans uses Vowpal Wabbit for all of their ads portfolio optimization problems and train several thousand models per day.

Tutorials

An official list of tutorials from workshops introducing new features.
An official list of examples / use cases.
Predicting CTR with Online Machine Learning by MLWave. Uses Criteo dataset.
Go non-linear with Vowpal Wabbit by FastML.
Vowpal Wabbit tutorial for the Uninitiated on Convex Optimized.
Solving NLP problems with Vowpal Wabbit by Hal Daumé III.
Machine Learning meets ketosis: how to effectively lose weight by Ariel Faigon.
Vowpal Wabbit tutorial: blazingly fast learning - tutorial in a form of a Kaggle Kernel by Yury Kashnitsky
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Tuning

Enhancing performance of VW for text classification by Zachary Deane-Mayer.
Tips for using VW for sentiment analysis by MLWave.

Blogs

Lessons Learned from the Hunt for Prohibited Content on Kaggle.
Profiling Top Kagglers: Gilberto Titericz, New #1 in the World.
One Louder by Paul Mineiro on the neural networks functionality.
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Machine Learning Competitions

Walmart Recruiting II: Sales in Stormy Weather. Threecourse used Vowpal Wabbit. First Place Entry Description. Code.
Guocong Song won 3rd place in the Criteo Ad Click Prediction Challenge. Code.
5th place and 3rd place in the KDD-cup 2014: Predicting Excitement at DonorsChoose.org used VW on the text features.
1st place in Allstate Claims Severity Competition used VW as part of ensemble. Description.
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Videos & Presentations

Vowpal Wabbit Workshop
Technical Tricks of Vowpal Wabbit
Winning Kaggle 101 by Dmitry Larko.
Vowpal Wabbit: Fast Learning on Big Data by Ran Bi.
Vowpal Wabbit, a Machine Learning System. John Langford's talk at QCon.
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Research

Vowpal Wabbit is implemented in the Multiworld Testing Decision Service.
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