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Exploitation Over Exploration: Unmasking the Bias in Linear Bandit Recommender Offline Evaluation

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Main Authors:	Pires, Pedro R., Azevedo, Gregorio F., Campos, Pietro L., Sereicikas, Rafael T., Almeida, Tiago A.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Machine Learning Information Retrieval
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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