Sayer: Using Implicit Feedback to Optimize System Policies

Lécuyer, Mathias, Kim, Sang Hoon, Nanavati, Mihir, Jiang, Junchen, Sen, Siddhartha, Sharma, Amit, Slivkins, Aleksandrs

arXiv.org Machine Learning 

We observe that many system policies that make threshold decisions involving a resource (e.g., time, memory, cores) naturally reveal additional, or implicit feedback. For example, if a system waits X min for an event to occur, then it automatically learns what would have happened if it waited