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page_title: Vowpal Wabbit
page_description: Vowpal Wabbit provides a fast, flexible, online, and active learning solution that empowers you to solve complex interactive machine learning problems.
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          <h1>
            Your go-to interactive machine learning library
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            Vowpal Wabbit provides a fast, flexible, online, and active learning solution that empowers you to solve complex interactive machine learning problems.
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                  Get started
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                  Tutorials
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            What does Vowpal Wabbit do?
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            Vowpal Wabbit provides fast, efficient, and flexible online machine learning techniques for reinforcement learning, supervised learning, and more.

            It is influenced by an ecosystem of community contributions, academic research, and proven algorithms.
            <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-new-york/" target="_blank">
              Microsoft Research
            </a> is a major contributor to Vowpal Wabbit.
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          Learn more
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            Install Vowpal Wabbit
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            For more information on installation requirements, building Vowpal Wabbit from source, or using a package manager read the
            <a href="https://github.com/VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/Installing" target="_blank">
              installation wiki.
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            Additional binary packages are available for select platforms.
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              Explore all tutorials
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              A vehicle for machine learning research
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              Vowpal Wabbit’s design is informed and influenced by advanced interactive and online learning research.
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              For more details on the research driving Vowpal Wabbit
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                visit the Vowpal Wabbit publications list.
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