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Accelerating Ranking Experimentation at Thumbtack with Interleaving

While A/B tests are rightly considered the gold standard for causal inference, they can also be costly. A typical ranking experiment takes many weeks to complete. This wouldn’t be a big problem if we only had a handful of ideas to try, but Thumbtack’s rankers are powered by ML models tha...

Accelerating Ranking Experimentation at Thumbtack with Interleaving

While A/B tests are rightly considered the gold standard for causal inference, they can also be costly. A typical ranking experiment takes many weeks to complete. This wouldn’t be a big problem if we only had a handful of ideas to try, but Thumbtack’s rankers are powered by ML models tha...