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48 results for flight search recommendation

A new clustering framework optimizes customer search data for personalized travel recommendations.

problem Personalized travel recommendations based on customer search data.
method Multi-objective optimization-based clustering ensemble framework.
result Optimizes diversity in clustering ensemble search space and automatically determines the number of clusters.

Analyzes Lévy flights on manifolds for finding small targets.

problem Finding small targets using Lévy flights on various manifolds.
method Analytic description of Lévy flights on closed Riemannian manifolds, including asymptotics of expected stopping time.
result Computes the expected time for finding a small target by Lévy flight on surfaces.

This paper proposes a new method to learn combinatorial patterns for airline crew pairing optimization.

problem Enhancing airline crew pairing optimization for large-scale, complex flight networks.
method Variational Graph Auto-Encoder for learning combinatorial patterns among flight-connection graphs.
result The proposed method generates new pairings for the optimizer, improving the efficacy of airline crew pairing optimization.

EDU method finds diverse optimal solutions for expensive simulators.

problem Optimizing expensive black-box simulators for diverse solutions.
method EDU method searches for diverse locally-optimal solutions within a tolerance level.
result EDU yields a closed-form acquisition function facilitating efficient sequential queries.

Traditional control methods are inadequate in many deployment settings involving control of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In such settings, CPS controllers must operate and respond to unpredictable interactions, conditions, or failure modes. Dealing with such unpredictability requires the use of executive and cognitive…

2019-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of efficiently constructing cheap and novel round trip flight itineraries by combining legs from different airlines. We analyse the factors that contribute towards the price of such itineraries and find that many result from the combination of just 30% of airlines and that the closer the departu…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Truncated Lévy flights are random walks in which the arbitrarily large steps of a Lévy flight are eliminated. Since this makes the variance finite, the central limit theorem applies, and as time increases the probability distribution of the increments becomes Gaussian. Here, truncated Lévy flights with correlated fluct…

1999-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The problem of an arbitrary truncated Levy flight description using the method of cumulant approach has been solved. The set of cumulants of the truncated Levy distribution given the assumption of arbitrary truncation has been found. The influence of truncation shape on the truncated Levy flight properties in the Gauss…

2010-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Study of Lévy flights on Zoll surfaces, revealing geometric information.

problem Understanding the mean first capture time of Lévy flights on Zoll surfaces.
method Analysis of geodesic Lévy processes on Zoll surfaces, focusing on the first correction term.
result The first correction term encodes geometric information, specifically the degree of the conjugate point.

Proposes DeepSDRF for continuous treatment recommendation from clinical survival data.

problem Continuous treatment recommendation in medical settings with survival data.
method Deep Survival Dose Response Function (DeepSDRF) for learning conditional average dose response (CADR) function.
result Similar performance of recommender algorithms based on random search and reinforcement learning.

Machine learning improves aircraft performance prediction by analyzing flight data.

problem Limited aircraft performance models based on industry-wide guidelines.
method Use machine learning on flight data to estimate drag and lift coefficients.
result Excellent accuracy in real-life data, supporting aerodynamics principles.

Machine learning predicts flight connections for airline crew scheduling.

problem Predicting the next connecting flight for airline crews.
method Adapted neural network for multiclass classification from historical data.
result High accuracy (99.7%) in flight connection prediction.

Paper addresses CPA line forecasting in online advertising mid-flight.

problem Forecasting ad campaign performance mid-flight considering bidding mechanisms.
method Generates relationships between metrics and optimization signals, estimates sensitivity, and characterizes advertiser spends vs. eCPA.
result Demonstrates promising accuracy in forecasting against actual deliveries.

Deep Retrieval learns a retrievable structure for efficient large-scale recommendations.

problem Efficiently retrieving top relevant candidates in large-scale recommendation systems.
method Deep Retrieval learns a retrievable structure directly from user-item interaction data, encoding candidates into a discrete latent space and optimizing a model to maximize accuracy.
result Deep Retrieval achieves almost the same accuracy as brute-force baseline and significantly outperforms ANN baselines in a live production system.

Talent search and recommendation systems at LinkedIn strive to match the potential candidates to the hiring needs of a recruiter or a hiring manager expressed in terms of a search query or a job posting. Recent work in this domain has mainly focused on linear models, which do not take complex relationships between feat…

2018-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Auto-Surprise automates recommender system selection and optimization.

problem Finding the best algorithm and hyperparameters for recommender systems.
method Extends Surprise library with TPE optimization for algorithm selection and hyperparameter tuning.
result Significantly faster in finding optimal hyperparameters compared to grid search.

Paper speeds up policy optimization for large recommendation systems.

problem Offline optimization of large-scale recommendation systems is computationally expensive.
method Derives an approximation of policy learning algorithms that scales logarithmically with the catalogue size.
result Our algorithm is an order of magnitude faster than naive approaches while producing equally good policies.

Recommender systems play an essential role in the modern business world. They recommend favorable items like books, movies, and search queries to users based on their past preferences. Applying similar ideas and techniques to Monte Carlo simulations of physical systems boosts their efficiency without sacrificing accura…

2016-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

This study analyzes and predicts airline delays using machine learning models.

problem Improving the accuracy of predicting airline flight delays.
method The study combines airline and weather datasets, using various machine learning models (Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, K-NN, Decision Tree, Random Forest) to predict flight delays.
result The Random Forest model achieved an accuracy of 82% in predicting flight delays of 15 minutes or more.

This paper reviews hyperparameter optimization methods and best practices.

problem Finding optimal hyperparameters for machine learning models.
method Various hyperparameter optimization methods are reviewed, including grid search, random search, evolutionary algorithms, Bayesian optimization, Hyperband, and racing.
result Practical recommendations for conducting hyperparameter optimization are provided.

Skip-gram with negative sampling, a popular variant of Word2vec originally designed and tuned to create word embeddings for Natural Language Processing, has been used to create item embeddings with successful applications in recommendation. While these fields do not share the same type of data, neither evaluate on the …

2018-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient Maximum Inner Product Search (MIPS) is an important task that has a wide applicability in recommendation systems and classification with a large number of classes. Solutions based on locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) as well as tree-based solutions have been investigated in the recent literature, to perform ap…

2015-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗

LLMs learn to recommend models and hyperparameters from dataset metadata.

problem Model and hyperparameter selection in machine learning is challenging and resource-intensive.
method Converted datasets into metadata and prompted LLMs to recommend models and hyperparameters.
result LLMs can recommend competitive models and hyperparameters without search.

DINOSAUR improves retrieval by accounting for embedding uncertainty in recommender systems.

problem Retrieval bias towards popular items due to noisy embeddings.
method Samples multiple embeddings per item and queries with sampled embeddings to account for uncertainty.
result Improves coverage of long-tail niche content without sacrificing recall.

Recommendation models mainly deal with categorical variables, such as user/item ID and attributes. Besides the high-cardinality issue, the interactions among such categorical variables are usually long-tailed, with the head made up of highly frequent values and a long tail of rare ones. This phenomenon results in the d…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

FIVES generates high-order interactive features efficiently and effectively.

problem Automating the generation of high-order interactive features in tabular data.
method Formulates interactive feature generation as edge search on a feature graph, using a GNN and adjacency tensor.
result FIVES outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various datasets and real-world applications.

Recommendation problems with large numbers of discrete items, such as products, webpages, or videos, are ubiquitous in the technology industry. Deep neural networks are being increasingly used for these recommendation problems. These models use embeddings to represent discrete items as continuous vectors, and the vocab…

2019-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗