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>>thebil+(OP)
Why is Facebook getting into reinforcement learning? Are there applications of RL to improving social connections or extracting more data to sell to advertisers?

>>mendez+Mo
If you take a look at the announcement post for the framework, you can see some discussion about that: https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/horizon/

One application that they mention related (at least loosely) to social connections is deciding whether or not to deliver a notification to a user.

>>civics+Ap
That makes sense. At Twitter, I redesigned the notifications system to explicitly allow for ML based decisions such as this.