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This page is out of date, we are currently working on improving the distribution strategy for vw. Stay tuned.
All tagged versions can be downloaded from github. We try to have zero bugs, so a checkout from the master branch is almost always sane and often preferred. Detailed instructions for installing on various operating systems can be found in the README.
If you're running Linux on Intel or AMD (IA64/amd64) you may find some recent precompiled binaries at http://finance.yendor.com/ML/VW/Binaries/ these binaries are statically-linked (including all required libraries) so they should work on any Linux distribution.
Mac OS-X on may have a (hopefully recent) precompiled binary in homebrew. Try brew install vowpal-wabbit
We provide precompiled binaries for Windows packaged as MSI installer downloadable from here.
- Home
- First Steps
- Input
- Command line arguments
- Model saving and loading
- Controlling VW's output
- Audit
- Algorithm details
- Awesome Vowpal Wabbit
- Learning algorithm
- Learning to Search subsystem
- Loss functions
- What is a learner?
- Docker image
- Model merging
- Evaluation of exploration algorithms
- Reductions
- Contextual Bandit algorithms
- Contextual Bandit Exploration with SquareCB
- Contextual Bandit Zeroth Order Optimization
- Conditional Contextual Bandit
- Slates
- CATS, CATS-pdf for Continuous Actions
- Automl
- Epsilon Decay
- Warm starting contextual bandits
- Efficient Second Order Online Learning
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- VW Reductions Workflows
- Interaction Grounded Learning
- CB with Large Action Spaces
- CB with Graph Feedback
- FreeGrad
- Marginal
- Active Learning
- Eigen Memory Trees (EMT)
- Element-wise interaction
- Bindings
-
Examples
- Logged Contextual Bandit example
- One Against All (oaa) multi class example
- Weighted All Pairs (wap) multi class example
- Cost Sensitive One Against All (csoaa) multi class example
- Multiclass classification
- Error Correcting Tournament (ect) multi class example
- Malicious URL example
- Daemon example
- Matrix factorization example
- Rcv1 example
- Truncated gradient descent example
- Scripts
- Implement your own joint prediction model
- Predicting probabilities
- murmur2 vs murmur3
- Weight vector
- Matching Label and Prediction Types Between Reductions
- Zhen's Presentation Slides on enhancements to vw
- EZExample Archive
- Design Documents
- Contribute: