1. The document discusses personalized news article recommendation using a contextual bandit approach to balance exploration and exploitation when suggesting articles to users. 2. It provides examples of contextual bandits in web services and clinical decision making. 3. The key challenge is how to quickly identify relevant news stories on a personal level for both new and existing users given changing article relevance over time. 4. Two linear contextual bandit algorithms, LinUCB with disjoint and hybrid models, are proposed to learn the best policy for selecting news articles to maximize click-through rates based on user and article features.