about.html

---
layout: default
body_class: about
---
<div class="content about_container">
  <div class="hero_container">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row justify-content-center text-center">
        <div class="col col-lg-10">
          <h2>
            Real problems and uniquely framed solutions in a real world environment.
          </h2>
          <p>
            Vowpal Wabbit is an open, fast, and efficient online learning system that empowers you to explore, test, and research solutions for a real world impact. Through online learning and community collaboration, you can apply real data sets for meaningful results.
          </p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  {% assign values=site.core_values | sort: 'order' %}
  <div class="values_container">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row justify-content-center text-center">
        <div class="col-sm col-lg-8">
          <h2>
            Our core values
          </h2>
          <p>
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          </p>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="row values">
        {% for value in values %}
          <div class="col-sm col-lg-3">
            <div class="value text-center">
              <img src={{value.icon}} />
              <h3 class="title">
                {{value.title}}
              </h3>
              <p>
                {{value.description}}
              </p>
            </div>
          </div>
        {% endfor %}
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="contributions_container">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col col-lg-6">
          <div class="description">
            <h2>
              Contributions are valued the same way
            </h2>
            <p>
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            </p>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col col-lg-6">
          <div class="contributions_img">
            <img src="assets/images/about/contributions.svg" />
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="redefine_problems_container">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row justify-content-center text-center">
        <div class="col col-lg-8">
          <h2>
            Problems can be redefined with novel solutions
          </h2>
          <p>
            Vowpal Wabbit is structured around the principle of reducing problems to known solutions. When you can structure your problem as a class of problem that has been solved before then you can leverage existing technology. This is how you think about using VW to solve your problems, but it is also how VW works internally. Each reduction reduces to something that has been solved before and in this way we can reuse efficient algorithms that have stood the test of time.
          </p>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="row justify-content-center">
        <div class="col-sm col-lg-8">
          <div class="redefine_problems_rabbit">
            <img src="assets/images/about/redefine_problems_rabbit.svg" />
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="footer">
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="real_world_problems_container">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="col col-lg-6">
          <div class="real_world_problems_img">
            <img src="assets/images/about/real_world_problems.svg" />
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col col-lg-6">
          <div class="description">
            <h2>
              A system that works in the real world
            </h2>
            <p>
              With a flexible input format, feature hashing, sample efficient algorithms and collection of reductions VW is able to solve many real world problems.
            </p>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="vw_users_container">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row justify-content-center text-center">
        <div class="col col-lg-8">
          <h2>
            Who’s using VW
          </h2>
          <p>
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          </p>
        </div>
      </div>

      {% assign users = site.users | sort: 'order' %}
      <div class="row">
        {% for user in users %}
          <div class="col">
            <div class="user">
              <img src={{user.image}} />
              <h3>
                {{ user.title }}
              </h3>
              <p>
                {{ user.description }}
              </p>
            </div>
          </div>
        {% endfor %}
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="contributors">
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row justify-content-center text-center">
        <div class="col-sm col-lg-8">
          <h2>
            Contributors on GitHub
          </h2>
          <p>
            As an open technology hosted on GitHub, contributors to Vowpal Wabbit code and research sit all over the world.
          </p>

          <div class="contributor_link">
            <a href="https://github.com/VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit/graphs/contributors" target="_blank">
              See who's contributing
            </a>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>