Publications

Journals

Sertan Girgin, Jérémie Mary, Philippe Preux, Olivier Nicol: Managing advertising campaigns - an approximate planning approach. Frontiers of Computer Science 6 (2012)

Olivier Nicol, Jérémie Mary, Philippe Preux: ICML Exploration & Exploitation Challenge: Keep it simple! Journal of Machine Learning Research - Proceedings Track 26 (2012)
=>Story of our victory in the challenge

International Conferences

Olivier Nicol, Jérémie Mary, Philippe Preux: Improving offline evaluation of contextual bandit algorithms via bootstrapping techniques., ICML 2014

Sertan Girgin, Jérémie Mary, Philippe Preux, Olivier Nicol: Advertising Campaigns Management: Should We Be Greedy?, ICDM 2010

Miscellaneous

Technical report: Olivier Nicol, Jérémie Mary, Philippe Preux: Remarks on the ICML 2012 Exploration vs Exploitation Challenge and an equivalence with classification. (2013)

Master's thesis (unpublished, in french): Planification d'affichage de publicités à budget fixé. (2010)

Software

I am currently writing a piece of open source software to allow people to evaluate online recommendation algorithm on real data using state of the art methods and a few methods we designed ourselves. Coming very soon! (my working version is available here)

Talks

ICML 2011, Keep it simple! : How we won the challenge.
ICML 2014, Improving offline evaluation of contextual bandit algorithms via bootstrapping techniques : Presentation of a paper.