Job recommendation has traditionally been treated as a filter-based match or as a recommendation based on the features of jobs and candidates as discrete entities. In this paper, we introduce a methodology where we leverage the progression of job selection by candidates using machine learning. Additionally, our recomme…
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A method selects candidates based on predictions with statistical control.
problem Screening candidates for resource-intensive steps like hiring or drug discovery.
method Wraps around any prediction model to produce a subset of candidates with controlled false selection rate.
result Empirically demonstrates selection of candidates whose predictions exceed a data-dependent threshold.
In this paper we present the Warm-starting Dynamic Thresholding algorithm, developed using dynamic programming, for a variant of the standard online selection problem. The problem allows job positions to be either free or already occupied at the beginning of the process. Throughout the selection process, the decision m…
Optimal transport strategy reduces gender bias in job recommendation systems.
problem Mitigating gender biases in AI-driven job recommendation systems.
method Model agnostic optimal transport strategy applied to multi-class neural networks.
result Reduced undesirable algorithmic biases in job recommendation tasks.
Employers actively look for talents having not only specific hard skills but also various soft skills. To analyze the soft skill demands on the job market, it is important to be able to detect soft skill phrases from job advertisements automatically. However, a naive matching of soft skill phrases can lead to false pos…
Proposes a framework for fairness in two-sided marketplaces.
problem Achieving fairness in two-sided marketplaces.
method Developed an end-to-end framework for fairness constraints from both sides of the marketplace, including dynamic aspects.
result Efficacy of the proposed framework demonstrated through simulations.
Multimodal analysis assesses job interview performance and provides feedback.
problem Assessing candidate performance in interviews for professional roles.
method Multimodal analytical framework using video, audio, and text data.
result The proposed methodology achieved promising results in predicting behavioral cues.
Proposes a deep hybrid model for better recommendation systems.
problem Limited studies on hybrid recommender systems and the need for more advanced approaches.
method Integrates deep learning with ID embeddings and auxiliary features for improved recommendation.
result Improves recommendation results over deep learning models using ID embeddings.
When recruiting job candidates, employers rarely observe their underlying skill level directly. Instead, they must administer a series of interviews and/or collate other noisy signals in order to estimate the worker's skill. Traditional economics papers address screening models where employers access worker skill via a…
Linking job seekers with relevant jobs requires matching based on not only skills, but also personality types. Although the Holland Code also known as RIASEC has frequently been used to group people by their suitability for six different categories of occupations, the RIASEC category labels of individual jobs are often…
In this short paper we investigate whether meta-learning techniques can be used to more effectively tune the hyperparameters of machine learning models using successive halving (SH). We propose a novel variant of the SH algorithm (MeSH), that uses meta-regressors to determine which candidate configurations should be el…
Study schedules jobs with unknown holding costs to minimize expected cumulative cost.
problem Minimizing expected cumulative holding costs of jobs with unknown parameters.
method Learning-based rule scheduling with a preemption phase.
result Achieves near-optimal performance guarantees with nearly matching regret bounds.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have shown great promise in tasks like synthetic image generation, image inpainting, style transfer, and anomaly detection. However, generating discrete data is a challenge. This work presents an adversarial training based correlated discrete data (CDD) generation model. It also de…
Phynanceq-fin.MF
These are the lecture notes for an advanced Ph.D. level course I taught in Spring'02 at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. The course primarily focused on an introduction to stochastic calculus and derivative pricing with various stochastic computations recast in the language of path integr…
Study on scheduling jobs with unknown types, achieving sublinear excess cost.
problem Optimizing job scheduling with unknown job types and varying durations.
method Design of algorithms for non-preemptive and preemptive scenarios, proving lower bounds.
result Preemptive algorithms can significantly outperform non-preemptive ones when job types have distinct durations.
Sequence-to-sequence models predict resource usage for co-scheduled jobs in data centers.
problem Challenges in co-scheduling jobs due to resource interference and inefficiencies.
method Sequence-to-sequence models based on recurrent neural networks for workload interference prediction.
result Models accurately forecast resource usage trends from job profiles, improving scheduling decisions.
New job recommendation system improves job seekers' welfare through field experiments.
problem Current job recommendation systems focus on clicks and applications, not job seekers' welfare.
method Developed a job-search model with two dimensions: utility and success probability. Conducted field experiments to validate model predictions.
result Welfare-optimal job recommendation algorithms outperform existing approaches and perform close to the benchmark.
Pareto index induced from the scale of companiesphysics.soc-ph
Employing profits data of Japanese companies in 2002 and 2003, we confirm that Pareto's law and the Pareto index are derived from the law of detailed balance and Gibrat's law. The last two laws are observed beyond the region where Pareto's law holds. By classifying companies into job categories, we find that companies …
Microsoft's internal big data analytics platform is comprised of hundreds of thousands of machines, serving over half a million jobs daily, from thousands of users. The majority of these jobs are recurring and are crucial for the company's operation. Although administrators spend significant effort tuning system perfor…
Separating the short jobs from the long is a known technique to improve scheduling performance. In this paper we describe a method we developed for accurately predicting the runtimes classes of the jobs to enable this separation. Our method uses the fact that the runtimes can be represented as a mixture of overlapping …
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…
Algorithm solves job acceptance problem with random arrivals and values.
problem Decision-making under random job arrivals and values with limited acceptance.
method Proposes Non-Parametric Sequential Allocation (NPSA) algorithm.
result Expected reward converges to optimality as sample size increases.
Paper develops multilingual job classification for ISCO and KZiS.
problem Classifying job advertisements for accurate occupation coding.
method Transformer architecture for hierarchical multi-class classification.
result Hierarchical structure improves prediction accuracy by 1-2 percentage points.
With the rapid growth of the data volume and the fast increasing of the computational model complexity in the scenario of cloud computing, it becomes an important topic that how to handle users' requests by scheduling computational jobs and assigning the resources in data center. In order to have a better perception of…
Training machine learning (ML) models on large datasets requires considerable computing power. To speed up training, it is typical to distribute training across several machines, often with specialized hardware like GPUs or TPUs. Managing a distributed training job is complex and requires dealing with resource contenti…
The paper proposes an online algorithm for network resource allocation with reduced costs.
problem Optimizing resource allocation and job transfers in a network of servers.
method Randomized online algorithm based on the exponentially weighted method.
result The algorithm achieves sub-linear regret, indicating improved efficiency over time.
Efficiently scheduling data processing jobs on distributed compute clusters requires complex algorithms. Current systems, however, use simple generalized heuristics and ignore workload characteristics, since developing and tuning a scheduling policy for each workload is infeasible. In this paper, we show that modern ma…
We discuss the distribution of commuting distances and its relation to income. Using data from Denmark, the UK, and the US, we show that the commuting distance is (i) broadly distributed with a slow decaying tail that can be fitted by a power law with exponent and (ii) an average growing slowly as a power …
More and more companies have deployed machine learning (ML) clusters, where deep learning (DL) models are trained for providing various AI-driven services. Efficient resource scheduling is essential for maximal utilization of expensive DL clusters. Existing cluster schedulers either are agnostic to ML workload characte…
Classification tasks are common across many fields and applications where the decision maker's action is limited by resource constraints. In direct marketing only a subset of customers is contacted; scarce human resources limit the number of interviews to the most promising job candidates; limited donated organs are pr…
There is a general trend towards solving problems suited to deep learning with more complex deep learning architectures trained on larger training sets. This requires longer compute times and greater data parallelization or model parallelization. Both data and model parallelism have been historically faster in paramete…
Inspired by the unsupervised learning or self-organization in the machine learning context, here we attempt to draw `learning curve' for the collective behavior of job-seeking `zero-intelligence' labors in successive job-hunting processes. Our labor market is supposed to be opened especially for university graduates in…
Graph neural networks-based Scheduler for Production planning problems using Reinforcement Learningcs.LG
GraSP-RL uses graph neural networks to improve job shop scheduling.
problem Capturing machine-unit-job sequence relationships and managing state space growth.
method Graph neural networks for feature extraction, reinforcement learning for decision-making, decentralized optimization.
result GraSP-RL outperforms existing methods in minimizing makespan for complex production environments.
Job transitions and upskilling are common actions taken by many industry working professionals throughout their career. With the current rapidly changing job landscape where requirements are constantly changing and industry sectors are emerging, it is especially difficult to plan and navigate a predetermined career pat…
In this paper, we present a data-driven model for forecasting the production increase after hydraulic fracturing (HF). We use data from fracturing jobs performed at one of the Siberian oilfields. The data includes features, characterizing the jobs, and geological information. To predict an oil rate after the fracturing…
A Problem of Finite-Horizon Optimal Switching and Stochastic Control for Utility Maximizationmath.OC
Paper tackles utility maximization with job-switching and retirement constraints.
problem Maximizing utility with job-switching and retirement constraints.
method Dual-martingale approach and double obstacle problem theory.
result Characterization of optimal job-switching strategy and wealth boundaries.
Algorithm stabilizes queues in asymmetric systems with unknown service rates.
problem Stabilizing queues in multi-class multi-server systems with unknown service rates.
method Proposes UCB and Thompson Sampling algorithms to stabilize queues while learning service rates.
result Achieves system stability with an average queue length bound of \(O(\min\{N,K\}/ε)\) for large time horizon \(T\).
Minimizing the Weighted Number of Tardy Jobs: Data-Driven Heuristic for Single-Machine Schedulingcs.LG
A heuristic minimizes tardy jobs' total weight on single-machine scheduling.
problem Minimizing tardy jobs' total weight on single-machine scheduling.
method Data-driven heuristic combining machine learning and problem-specific characteristics.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art in optimality gap and adaptability.
We consider the problem faced by a service platform that needs to match limited supply with demand but also to learn the attributes of new users in order to match them better in the future. We introduce a benchmark model with heterogeneous "workers" (demand) and a limited supply of "jobs" that arrive over time. Job typ…
Deep RL learns effective job shop scheduling rules from raw features.
problem Designing effective priority dispatching rules for job shop scheduling is challenging.
method End-to-end deep reinforcement learning using Graph Neural Networks.
result Agent learns high-quality dispatching rules from raw features and generalizes well to unseen instances.
We present our solution to the job recommendation task for RecSys Challenge 2016. The main contribution of our work is to combine temporal learning with sequence modeling to capture complex user-item activity patterns to improve job recommendations. First, we propose a time-based ranking model applied to historical obs…
An online labor platform faces an online learning problem in matching workers with jobs and using the performance on these jobs to create better future matches. This learning problem is complicated by the rise of complex tasks on these platforms, such as web development and product design, that require a team of worker…
Statistical models of economic distributions lead to Boltzmann distributions rather than a Pareto power law. This result is supported by two facts: 1. the distributions of income, car sales, marriages or jobs are a matter of chances and luck and not of reason! 2. Data for property, automobile sales, marriages and job m…
Optimizes resource allocation in a network with random job requests.
problem Minimizing costs while satisfying job requests within a budget.
method Formalizes as a repeated game, proposes an online saddle-point algorithm.
result Upper bounds for regret and constraint violations are derived.
We develop tools for utilizing correspondence experiments to detect illegal discrimination by individual employers. Employers violate US employment law if their propensity to contact applicants depends on protected characteristics such as race or sex. We establish identification of higher moments of the causal effects …
Employee stock options (ESOs) are American-style call options that can be terminated early due to employment shock. This paper studies an ESO valuation framework that accounts for job termination risk and jumps in the company stock price. Under general Lévy stock price dynamics, we show that a higher job termination ri…
This paper tackles JSSP with uncertain task durations using DRL.
problem Job Shop Scheduling Problem with uncertain task durations.
method Integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to generate robust schedules.
result Advances DRL applications to JSSPs, enhancing generalization and scalability.
FairJob dataset for job recommendations in advertising, preserving fairness and utility.
problem Fairness in online job recommendations for advertising.
method Anonymized dataset with proxy for sensitive attributes, fairness metric computation.
result Demonstrated potential improvements in fairness with trade-offs in utility.