Paper tackles online ranking and diversification in recommender systems.
problem Maximizing relevance and diversity in ranked lists for online recommendation.
method CascadeHybrid approach that combines contextual bandits for relevance and topical diversity.
result CascadeHybrid outperforms baselines in real-world datasets.
Choppy optimizes ranked list truncation using Transformer architecture.
problem Optimal truncation of ranked search results to balance relevance and user cost.
method Assumption-free Transformer model optimizing user-defined IR metrics.
result Choppy improves upon recent state-of-the-art methods.
Systems rank PubMed abstracts and sentences for RDoC criteria, achieving high mAP and MAA.
problem Lack of RDoC labeled datasets and complex labelling process hinder full use of RDoC framework.
method Attention-based neural topic models, supervised and unsupervised sentence ranking models, BM25, BoW, TF-IDF.
result Best systems achieved 1st rank with 0.86 mAP and 0.58 MAA.
Research characterizes learnability of multilabel ranking problems.
problem Learnability of multilabel ranking problems with relevance-score feedback.
method Characterizes learnability in batch and online settings for a large family of ranking losses.
result Characterizes two equivalence classes of ranking losses based on learnability.
A new multi-label classification model combining SVM and BR with low-rank learning.
problem Class imbalance and label correlation issues in multi-label classification.
method Joint Ranking SVM and Binary Relevance with robust Low-rank learning (RBRL).
result RBRL outperforms state-of-the-art methods in multi-label classification.
When estimating the relevancy between a query and a document, ranking models largely neglect the mutual information among documents. A common wisdom is that if two documents are similar in terms of the same query, they are more likely to have similar relevance score. To mitigate this problem, in this paper, we propose …
Presentation bias is one of the key challenges when learning from implicit feedback in search engines, as it confounds the relevance signal with uninformative signals due to position in the ranking, saliency, and other presentation factors. While it was recently shown how counterfactual learning-to-rank (LTR) approache…
Paper characterizes minimax regret rates for online ranking with top-k feedback.
problem Analyzing online ranking with partial feedback.
method Developed techniques from partial monitoring to characterize minimax regret rates.
result Full characterization of minimax regret rates for Precision@n.
LITE models improve query-document relevance with learnable late interactions.
problem Improving query-document relevance with lower latency and storage.
method Proposes learnable late-interaction models (LITE) that use factorized query and document embeddings followed by a learnable scorer.
result Empirically, LITE outperforms previous late-interaction models in re-ranking tasks.
List-wise learning to rank methods are considered to be the state-of-the-art. One of the major problems with these methods is that the ambiguous nature of relevance labels in learning to rank data is ignored. Ambiguity of relevance labels refers to the phenomenon that multiple documents may be assigned the same relevan…
Paper addresses bias in search intent affecting click behavior.
problem Bias in user search intent affects click behavior and relevance.
method Proposes a search intent bias hypothesis to improve click models.
result Click models can better interpret user clicks and improve retrieval performance.
We analyze different re-ranking algorithms for diversification and show that majority of them are based on maximizing submodular/modular functions from the class of parameterized concave/linear over modular functions. We study the optimality of such algorithms in terms of the `total curvature'. We also show that by adj…
The detection of interesting patterns in large high-dimensional datasets is difficult because of their dimensionality and pattern complexity. Therefore, analysts require automated support for the extraction of relevant patterns. In this paper, we present FDive, a visual active learning system that helps to create visua…
Adequate evaluation of an information retrieval system to estimate future performance is a crucial task. Area under the ROC curve (AUC) is widely used to evaluate the generalization of a retrieval system. However, the objective function optimized in many retrieval systems is the error rate and not the AUC value. This p…
FUJI scores similarity of ranked lists more robustly.
problem Improving similarity assessment of ranked lists.
method Integrates a membership function into Jaccard index for better rank consideration.
result More stable and accurate similarity estimates.
Algorithm learns diverse rankings for search engines.
problem Designing algorithms for search engines to rank diverse items.
method LDR (Learning Diverse Rankings) algorithm, efficient learning based on users' feedback.
result Algorithm achieves optimal ranking performance with O((N−L)log(T)) regret. Improved fMRI analysis models enhance classification performance and select relevant brain regions.
problem Inaccurate selection of relevant brain components in MVPA models.
method Hybrid Sparsity-Ranked LASSO (JSRL) method integrating component-level and voxel-level activity.
result JSRL models achieve up to 51.7% improvement in cross-validated deviance R2 and 7.3% improvement in cross-validated AUC. 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.
Boosting for label ranking outperforms existing methods.
problem Improving label ranking predictions using boosting techniques.
method Proposed a boosting algorithm tailored for label ranking tasks.
result Significantly outperforms existing label ranking algorithms.
Variable selection for Gaussian process models is often done using automatic relevance determination, which uses the inverse length-scale parameter of each input variable as a proxy for variable relevance. This implicitly determined relevance has several drawbacks that prevent the selection of optimal input variables i…
Genealogy research is the study of family history using available resources such as historical records. Ancestry provides its customers with one of the world's largest online genealogical index with billions of records from a wide range of sources, including vital records such as birth and death certificates, census re…
Time-aware fact-checking improves veracity predictions for time-sensitive claims.
problem Fact-checking decisions should consider temporal information of claims and evidence.
method Investigated four temporal ranking methods to optimize evidence ranking for fact-checking models.
result Time-aware evidence ranking surpasses relevance assumptions and improves veracity predictions for time-sensitive claims.
Extends linear classification framework to nonlinear SVM-based ranking problems.
problem Maximizing performance on relevant samples in ranking problems.
method Dualization, kernel addition, componentwise dual ascent method.
result General framework for nonlinear classifiers in ranking problems.
Paper extends ranking metrics theory for financial positions.
problem Developing a new class of functionals for evaluating financial positions.
method Axiomatic framework based on monotonicity and cash-quasiconcavity.
result Linking ranking metrics to families of acceptance sets and risk measures.
Bayesian TNKMs automatically infer model complexity and feature relevance.
problem Manual tuning of TN rank and feature dimensions is error-prone and computationally expensive.
method Bayesian approach with hierarchical priors on TN factors for automatic rank and feature selection.
result Superior performance in prediction accuracy, uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and scalability.
Paper extends ranking metrics theory for financial positions.
problem Developing a new class of performance evaluation methods.
method Axiomatic framework based on monotonicity and cash-quasiconcavity.
result Linking ranking metrics to families of acceptance sets and risk measures.
Multi-view data have been routinely collected in various fields of science and engineering. A general problem is to study the predictive association between multivariate responses and multi-view predictor sets, all of which can be of high dimensionality. It is likely that only a few views are relevant to prediction, an…
E-Commerce (E-Com) search is an emerging important new application of information retrieval. Learning to Rank (LETOR) is a general effective strategy for optimizing search engines, and is thus also a key technology for E-Com search. While the use of LETOR for web search has been well studied, its use for E-Com search h…
Generative AI reduces IR evaluation costs but introduces errors; this work provides reliable CIs.
problem Generating relevance annotations using AI introduces errors that affect IR evaluation metrics.
method Proposes two methods: prediction-powered inference and conformal risk control to place reliable CIs around IR metrics.
result Proposed methods accurately capture both variance and bias in evaluation based on AI-generated annotations.
XR improves search advertising relevance predictions.
problem Accurately predicting relevance of millions of search labels.
method eXtreme Regression (XR) with new evaluation metrics and XReg algorithm.
result XReg outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 50% in XR error metric.
Ranking data arises in a wide variety of application areas but remains difficult to model, learn from, and predict. Datasets often exhibit multimodality, intransitivity, or incomplete rankings---particularly when generated by humans---yet popular probabilistic models are often too rigid to capture such complexities. In…
Persistent homology analysis provides means to capture the connectivity structure of data sets in various dimensions. On the mathematical level, by defining a metric between the objects that persistence attaches to data sets, we can stabilize invariants characterizing these objects. We outline how so called contour fun…
A new model for supervised learning to rank using gradient estimation.
problem Improving supervised learning to rank methods.
method Proposes a new model with a gradient estimator for categorical variables.
result Achieves better or comparable results compared to existing methods.
Paper develops new patterns for unique matrix completions.
problem Developing unique completions for non-random matrix patterns.
method Formulated low-rank matrix completion using Plucker coordinates.
result Provides two families of patterns for any rank.
TCMI assesses mutual dependence of continuous variables without parametric assumptions.
problem Estimating mutual information from continuous distributions.
method TCMI extends mutual information to continuous variables using cumulative distributions.
result TCMI facilitates feature selection and ranking of variable sets.
Prototype selection improved using topological data analysis.
problem Improving prototype selection methods for data compression.
method Introducing two topological prototype selector variants: TPS and BoundaryTPS.
result BoundaryTPS achieves the lowest mean Friedman rank on H1 persistence-diagram preservation. Paper introduces robust methods for consensus ranking in AI systems.
problem Developing reliable ranking systems in AI despite contaminated data.
method Introduces robustness concepts and statistical methods for consensus ranking.
result Proposes extensions of breakdown point for consensus ranking.
New methods recover best rank-r approximations from few entries.
problem Recovering best rank-r approximations from limited data entries.
method Two agnostic approaches: spectral truncation and projected gradient descent.
result Projected gradient descent yields superior performance.
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…
Algorithm samples fair rankings to ensure individual fairness while maintaining group fairness.
problem Fair ranking tasks with group fairness constraints and uncertainty in item utilities.
method Efficient algorithm that samples rankings from an individually-fair distribution ensuring group fairness.
result Expected utility of output ranking is at least α times optimal fair solution, where α depends on utilities and constraints.
New method for summarizing ranking distributions using consensus ranking distributions.
problem Summarizing ranking distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Introducing consensus ranking distributions and a top-down tree-structured statistical algorithm.
result Optimal distortion can be expressed as a function of pairwise probabilities, enabling efficient learning methods.
The paper tackles feature selection for ordinal regression, considering feature redundancies and privileged information.
problem Discovering relevant factors in ranked data with potentially redundant features and privileged information.
method Develops feature relevance bounds for linear ordinal regression, considering feature redundancies and privileged information.
result Identifies all strongly and weakly relevant features and their type of relevance.
In this paper, we review the problem of matrix completion and expose its intimate relations with algebraic geometry, combinatorics and graph theory. We present the first necessary and sufficient combinatorial conditions for matrices of arbitrary rank to be identifiable from a set of matrix entries, yielding theoretical…
RSIC identifies multiple ranks of interest in NMF by analyzing residual sensitivity.
problem Determining the optimal rank in NMF.
method RSIC analyzes sensitivity of relative residuals to different initializations.
result RSIC identifies meaningful ranks consistent with data structure.
Gradient descent promotes low-rank solutions in tensor completion.
problem Implicit regularization in tensor factorization using gradient descent.
method Introduced deep Tucker and TensorTrain (TT) unconstrained factorization to address tensor completion.
result Gradient descent promotes solutions with low-rank.
The paper introduces a statistical test to assess and rank distance measures.
problem Assessing the relative information retained by different distance measures.
method Developed a statistical test to compare distance measures.
result Identifies the most informative distance measure among candidates.
This article describes the R package varrank. It has a flexible implementation of heuristic approaches which perform variable ranking based on mutual information. The package is particularly suitable for exploring multivariate datasets requiring a holistic analysis. The core functionality is a general implementation of…
Partial Label Learning (PLL) aims to learn from the data where each training instance is associated with a set of candidate labels, among which only one is correct. Most existing methods deal with such problem by either treating each candidate label equally or identifying the ground-truth label iteratively. In this pap…