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Using Multi Armed Bandits
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Written by James Harber
Updated over a year ago

Looking for an explanation of how Multi Armed Bandits work, and when to use/avoid them? Read more about Multi Armed Bandits here.

Where to find Multi Armed Bandit

This value is set and configured in the dashboard, on the Traffic allocation panel.

You'll find it here:

When enabled, the area will look slightly different:

Configurable settings for Multi Armed Bandit

You can select which goal we optimize for. We will ask you to set it if you have not done so, and give you the ability to change it if you'd like to optimize to a different goal over time.

You cannot currently choose your algorithm for Multi Armed Bandit.

Display of current traffic allocation

When Multi Armed Bandit is enabled, you will lose the ability to manually control the traffic split between your variations.

Instead, you will see an output displaying the current configuration:

Over time, you'll find the percentages will separate.

That's it. Turning any AB or ABn experiment into a Multi-Armed Bandit is roughly a 1-button-click action.

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