In this paper, we propose a listwise approach for constructing user-specific rankings in recommendation systems in a collaborative fashion. We contrast the listwise approach to previous pointwise and pairwise approaches, which are based on treating either each rating or each pairwise comparison as an independent instan…
We propose a new model for supervised learning to rank. In our model, the relevance labels are assumed to follow a categorical distribution whose probabilities are constructed based on a scoring function. We optimize the training objective with respect to the multivariate categorical variables with an unbiased and low-…
Proposes a deep learning model for timely and accurate recommendations.
problem Inability to provide timely recommendations and ranking issues with implicit feedback.
method Unified cross-network solution using listwise ranking for implicit data.
result Superior performance in accuracy, novelty, and diversity compared to baselines.
Linear memory stores associations up to a logarithmic scale, but listwise retrieval can handle a quadratic scale.
problem How many key-value associations can a linear memory store?
method Analyzed linear memory models for top-1 and listwise retrieval, proving phase transitions and developing asymptotic theories.
result Linear memory has a logarithmic capacity for top-1 retrieval and a quadratic capacity for listwise retrieval.
For many internet businesses, presenting a given list of items in an order that maximizes a certain metric of interest (e.g., click-through-rate, average engagement time etc.) is crucial. We approach the aforementioned task from a learning-to-rank perspective which reveals a new problem setup. In traditional learning-t…
Efficiently calculates PL model likelihood for partitioned preference data.
problem Computational infeasibility of calculating PL model likelihood for partitioned preference data.
method Random utility model formulation and efficient numerical integration approach.
result Proposed method outperforms existing LTR baselines and scales to real-world tasks.
Proposes new listwise learning-to-rank models to address rating ties and document relevance.
problem Rating ties and document relevance in existing listwise learning-to-rank models.
method Models ranking as selecting documents from a candidate set based on unique rating levels. Uses a new loss function and adapted RNN model for refining prediction scores.
result Models notably outperform state-of-the-art learning-to-rank models on four public datasets.
Advances in collaborative filtering and ranking methods.
problem Improving recommendation systems efficiency and accuracy.
method Graph information encoding, pairwise and listwise approaches, regularization techniques, personalization.
result New methods significantly improve recommendation system performance.
Unified transformer-based LT-TTD improves ranking efficiency and quality.
problem Decoupled L1 and L2 models in recommendation and search systems cause irreversible error propagation and suboptimal ranking.
method LT-TTD combines two-tower models with transformer expressivity in a unified listwise learning framework, providing theoretical guarantees and UPQE evaluation.
result LT-TTD reduces irretrievable relevant items and achieves better global optimization than disjoint training.
Framework learns sentence order from paragraphs using attention and transformer networks.
problem Learning to order sentences from a paragraph.
method Bidirectional sentence encoder and self-attention transformer network for ranking.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on sentence ordering and discrimination tasks.
Proposes a cross entropy loss for better ranking algorithms.
problem Improving the theoretical understanding and performance of ranking algorithms.
method Introduces a cross entropy-based loss function that is a convex bound on NDCG and consistent with NDCG.
result Empirically, the proposed method outperforms existing algorithms in quality and robustness.
Learning to rank is a supervised learning problem where the output space is the space of rankings but the supervision space is the space of relevance scores. We make theoretical contributions to the learning to rank problem both in the online and batch settings. First, we propose a perceptron-like algorithm for learnin…
New algorithm predicts ranked stock lists for long-short portfolios.
problem Constructing effective long-short stock portfolios using machine learning.
method Proposes a new listwise learn-to-rank loss function to emphasize top and bottom of a rank list.
result Demonstrates superior performance in constructing long-short portfolios with a 38% annual return.
Improved unsupervised probing for ranking tasks using Contrast-Consistent Ranking.
problem Improving self-consistency in language model rankings.
method Adapting Contrast-Consistent Search (CCS) to Contrast-Consistent Ranking (CCR) for ranking tasks.
result CCR probing outperforms prompting techniques across different models and datasets.
SetRank tackles collaborative ranking from implicit feedback using setwise Bayesian approach.
problem Challenges in pairwise and listwise approaches for implicit feedback.
method SetRank is a novel setwise Bayesian approach that accommodates implicit feedback characteristics.
result SetRank outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on real-world datasets.
Study on missing data mechanisms and simple imputation methods in fairness of machine learning algorithms.
problem Impact of missing data mechanisms and simple imputation methods on fairness of machine learning algorithms.
method Three popular datasets for classification fairness were used. Missing values were generated using three missing data mechanisms. Various missing data handling techniques (listwise deletion, mean imputation, mode imputation, multiple imputation) were applied to the datasets. Fairness was assessed using classification algorithms (random forests).
result Missing data mechanism does not significantly impact fairness; listwise deletion gives highest fairness on average.
Scorio.jl ranks systems from repeated tasks using various methods.
problem Evaluating and ranking systems from repeated responses to shared tasks.
method Common tensor-based interface for multiple ranking methods.
result Pilot experiments show stability and runtime scaling.
Perceptron is a classic online algorithm for learning a classification function. In this paper, we provide a novel extension of the perceptron algorithm to the learning to rank problem in information retrieval. We consider popular listwise performance measures such as Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) and Av…
New algorithm improves asset ranking for better cross-sectional portfolios.
problem Sub-optimal ranking of assets in cross-sectional systematic strategies.
method Learning-to-rank algorithms to enhance portfolio construction.
result Modern machine learning ranking algorithms boost Sharpe Ratios by approximately threefold.
ADPO optimizes relative advantage in reinforcement learning from human feedback.
problem Optimizing policy alignment in reinforcement learning from human preferences.
method ADPO explicitly parameterizes the optimal structure through anchored logits, decoupling response quality from prior popularity.
result Empirically, ADPO achieves state-of-the-art performance on reasoning tasks, outperforming GRPO by 30.9 percent.
Proposes a method for explaining ranking decisions in learning systems.
problem Limited work on interpreting ranking decisions from learning systems.
method Model agnostic local explanation method using optimization to maximize validity.
result Approach outperforms other methods in validity across different LTR models.
Traditional approaches to ranking in web search follow the paradigm of rank-by-score: a learned function gives each query-URL combination an absolute score and URLs are ranked according to this score. This paradigm ensures that if the score of one URL is better than another then one will always be ranked higher than th…
JPLink uses machine learning to match jobs with RIASEC labels.
problem Matching jobs with RIASEC labels requires significant manual effort.
method JPLink uses text content and O*NET knowledge to assign RIASEC labels to jobs.
result JPLink outperforms conventional baselines in matching jobs with RIASEC labels.
MiM-StocR combines momentum indicators and adaptive ranking loss for better stock recommendation.
problem Lack of simultaneous short-term trend and ranking prediction in stock recommendation models.
method Integrates momentum indicators and proposes Adaptive-k ApproxNDCG for ranking optimization.
result MiM-StocR outperforms state-of-the-art MTL baselines in stock recommendation.
This paper studies the problem of finding the exact ranking from noisy comparisons. A comparison over a set of m items produces a noisy outcome about the most preferred item, and reveals some information about the ranking. By repeatedly and adaptively choosing items to compare, we want to fully rank the items with a …
The unevenness importance of criminal activities in the onion domains of the Tor Darknet and the different levels of their appeal to the end-user make them tangled to measure their influence. To this end, this paper presents a novel content-based ranking framework to detect the most influential onion domains. Our appro…
This paper explores the adaptive (active) PAC (probably approximately correct) top-k ranking (i.e., top-k item selection) and total ranking problems from l-wise (l≥2) comparisons under the multinomial logit (MNL) model. By adaptively choosing sets to query and observing the noisy output of the most favored …
Survey data imputation methods impact feature selection and importance assessment.
problem Impact of different imputation methods on feature selection and importance assessment in survey data.
method Investigated eight imputation methods (listwise deletion, MICE, missRanger, mixGBoost) and three learners (Random Forest, XGBoost, linear model) in a simulation study.
result Different imputation methods yield varying feature selection and importance assessments.
This paper evaluates various loss functions for Transformer models in stock ranking.
problem Evaluating loss functions for Transformer models in stock ranking.
method Systematic evaluation of advanced loss functions (pointwise, pairwise, listwise) on S&P 500 data.
result Different loss functions impact a model's ability to discern profitable relative orderings among assets.
New framework for optimizing machine learning risks.
problem Optimizing non-decomposable machine learning objectives.
method Empirical X-risk minimization (EXM) framework with algorithmic techniques.
result Developed algorithms for solving EXM with smooth non-convex objectives.
A new method, VIF, calculates influence for non-decomposable losses efficiently.
problem Efficiently calculating influence for complex machine learning models with non-decomposable losses.
method Revisiting influence function from robust statistics, proposing Versatile Influence Function (VIF) for any non-decomposable loss.
result VIF method is up to 10^3 times faster than brute-force methods and closely matches influence results.