A new algorithm improves top-k recommendation accuracy by considering item payoffs uncertainty.
problem Suboptimal performance in top-k recommendation rankings due to varying item payoffs. method Proposes a risk-seeking utility function for ranking items based on estimated preference scores.
result Risk-seeking ranking yields the best performance in top-k recommendations. Industrial recommender systems deal with extremely large action spaces -- many millions of items to recommend. Moreover, they need to serve billions of users, who are unique at any point in time, making a complex user state space. Luckily, huge quantities of logged implicit feedback (e.g., user clicks, dwell time) are …
New approaches estimate recommendation metrics using sampling.
problem Understanding and resolving the use of sampling for recommendation evaluation.
method MLE and ME principles for empirical rank distribution recovery.
result Advantages of new approaches for top-k metrics estimation.
Motivated by applications in recommender systems, web search, social choice and crowdsourcing, we consider the problem of identifying the set of top K items from noisy pairwise comparisons. In our setting, we are non-actively given r pairwise comparisons between each pair of n items, where each comparison has noi…
JoVA combines two VAEs to learn user and item representations for better recommendation.
problem Collaborative filtering with implicit feedback.
method Joint Variational Autoencoders (JoVA) with a hinge-based pairwise loss function (JoVA-Hinge).
result JoVA-Hinge outperforms state-of-the-art methods in top-k recommendation.
CLEAR learns causal graphs from attention in recommender systems to explain user behavior.
problem Understanding why specific recommendations are made in recommender systems.
method CLEAR learns session-specific causal graphs from attention in pre-trained neural recommenders, addressing latent confounders.
result CLEAR provides counterfactual explanations that are shorter and more effective than naive methods.
LambdaOpt automatically optimizes regularization hyperparameters for better recommendation model performance.
problem Data sparsity and high-cardinality issues in recommendation models.
method LambdaOpt automatically updates regularization coefficients based on validation data, allowing fine-grained regularization.
result LambdaOpt leads to better generalized models with improved recommendation performance.
Proposes a comprehensive framework for financial product lead recommendations using graph representation learning and link prediction.
problem Challenges in surface lead recommendations for financial products due to changing market scenarios and difficulty in capturing holder's mindset.
method Bi-partite graph representation of financial holders and funds, GraphSage model for learning representations, link prediction model for ranking recommendations.
result The proposed graph ML solution outperforms baseline by 42%, 22%, and 14% in hit rate for top-k recommendations (50, 100, 200) and 18%, 19%, and 18% on unseen holders.
A new algorithm for selecting top-k arms in extreme contextual bandits with improved efficiency.
problem Selecting top-k arms from a large set with contextual information and limited rewards.
method Proposes an algorithm for both non-extreme and extreme settings, using Inverse Gap Weighting and arm hierarchy models.
result Achieves improved regret guarantees for extreme settings with significant computational and statistical efficiency.
Can machine learning models for recommendation be easily fooled? While the question has been answered for hand-engineered fake user profiles, it has not been explored for machine learned adversarial attacks. This paper attempts to close this gap. We propose a framework for generating fake user profiles which, when inco…
Test for fairness in IR systems based on protected variables.
problem Unfairness in IR systems due to correlation with protected variables.
method Statistical test for 'distribution parity' in top-K IR results.
result Ensures fairness in IR systems for all users.
New method reduces variance in estimating PL model expectations.
problem High variance in Monte Carlo estimates of PL model expectations.
method Combining Gumbel top-k trick with quasi-Monte Carlo sampling.
result More sample-efficient estimators of PL model expectations.
EMDE efficiently estimates manifold densities for diverse recommendation systems.
problem Efficiently estimating manifold densities for multi-modal recommendation systems.
method EMDE (Efficient Manifold Density Estimator) framework for arbitrary vector representations.
result Established new state-of-the-art results in top-k and session-based recommendation settings.
DSelect-k improves MoE models for multi-task learning with better performance and smoother training.
problem Smoothness and convergence issues in sparse gate selection for MoE models.
method Developed DSelect-k, a differentiable and sparse gate for MoE models.
result DSelect-k achieves statistically significant improvements in prediction and expert selection over Top-k.
Master-slave architecture tackles combinatorial multi-armed bandits with diversity constraints.
problem Solving top-K combinatorial multi-armed bandits with non-linear feedback and diversity constraints. method Master-slave architecture with six slave models, teacher learning, and policy co-training.
result Significantly outperforms existing algorithms in synthetic and real datasets.
Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user and simply provides recommendations dynamically without properly understanding …
Paper analyzes trade-offs in top-k classification accuracies and proposes a new loss function.
problem CE loss does not always optimize top-k prediction, especially with complex data.
method Introduces a novel top-k transition loss to improve top-k accuracy.
result Our loss function improves top-k accuracy, especially for k > 10.
Class ambiguity is typical in image classification problems with a large number of classes. When classes are difficult to discriminate, it makes sense to allow k guesses and evaluate classifiers based on the top-k error instead of the standard zero-one loss. We propose top-k multiclass SVM as a direct method to optimiz…
The top-k error is often employed to evaluate performance for challenging classification tasks in computer vision as it is designed to compensate for ambiguity in ground truth labels. This practical success motivates our theoretical analysis of consistent top-k classification. Surprisingly, it is not rigorously und…
New system assigns vehicles to routes for cost and energy efficiency.
problem Optimizing vehicle route assignment for cost and energy efficiency.
method Machine learning-based neural network algorithm to estimate energy consumption and provide real-time recommendations.
result Demonstrated efficient vehicle assignment for medium and heavy duty trucks.
Paper introduces a new loss function for deep imbalanced classification.
problem Class ambiguity and imbalance in large datasets.
method Stochastic top-K hinge loss based on smoothed top-K operator.
result Our loss function significantly outperforms other baseline loss functions in imbalanced datasets.
Smoothed top-k operator improves model training efficiency.
problem Discontinuous top-k operation makes models untrainable end-to-end.
method SOFT top-k operator approximates top-k as EOT solution.
result Improved performance in k-nearest neighbors and beam search.
Paper introduces efficient top-k selection with differential privacy.
problem Efficiently selecting top-k elements with differential privacy.
method Oneshot Laplace mechanism, generalizing Report Noisy Max.
result Noise level of O(sqrt(k)/eps) for approximate differential privacy.
A deep learning strategy improves recommendation accuracy by leveraging trust and distrust relationships.
problem Data scarcity and cold-start problem in recommender systems.
method Social deep pairwise learning with a ranking loss function and social negative sampling.
result The proposed model achieves an 11.49% improvement over state-of-the-art methods.
Improves search performance by transferring knowledge from recommender system.
problem Cold start and feedback loop problems in search retrieval.
method Zero-Shot Heterogeneous Transfer Learning framework.
result Significant improvements in relevance and user interactions over production system.
In order to push the performance on realistic computer vision tasks, the number of classes in modern benchmark datasets has significantly increased in recent years. This increase in the number of classes comes along with increased ambiguity between the class labels, raising the question if top-1 error is the right perf…
Online boosting for multilabel ranking with limited feedback.
problem Multilabel ranking with top-k feedback.
method Surrogate loss function and unbiased estimator for weak learners.
result Adapted full information multilabel ranking algorithms to top-k feedback setting with theoretical and experimental support.
Unified model for prediction and deferral selects top-k entities efficiently.
problem Efficiently selecting top-k entities for deferral in machine learning.
method One-stage Top-k Learning-to-Defer framework with a convex surrogate. result Unified model achieves superior accuracy-cost trade-offs.
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.
Top-k error is currently a popular performance measure on large scale image classification benchmarks such as ImageNet and Places. Despite its wide acceptance, our understanding of this metric is limited as most of the previous research is focused on its special case, the top-1 error. In this work, we explore two direc…
Paper introduces MPES for top-k ranking BO with preferential observations.
problem Handling top-k ranking and tie/indifference observations in Bayesian optimization.
method Designs a surrogate model and introduces MPES acquisition function.
result MPES outperforms existing acquisition functions in handling preferential observations.
Study improves top-k set prediction with low cardinality.
problem Improving top-k set prediction accuracy with low cardinality.
method Introduces new target loss function and surrogate losses.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of cardinality-aware algorithms.
Paper extends top-k Mallows model for better user preference analysis.
problem Capturing real-world user preferences focusing on a limited set of items.
method Generalized top-k Mallows model, novel sampling scheme, efficient algorithm, active learning.
result New tools for analysis and prediction in decision-making scenarios.
Top-k sparsification reduces deep learning communication costs.
problem Reducing communication overhead in distributed deep learning.
method Extensive experiments and theoretical analysis of Top-k sparsification.
result A tighter bound for Top-k operator derived, improving scaling efficiency.
Neural Logic Reasoning integrates deep learning and symbolic logic for better prediction tasks.
problem Lack of cognitive reasoning in deep neural networks limits their ability to solve complex prediction tasks.
method Proposes Logic-Integrated Neural Network (LINN) that learns logical operations and conducts propositional logical reasoning.
result LINN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art recommendation models in Top-K recommendation.
Proposes differentiable and sparse top-k operators for neural networks.
problem Discontinuity of top-k operator makes it unsuitable for end-to-end training with backpropagation.
method Formulates top-k as a linear program over permutahedron, introduces p-norm regularization, and uses isotonic optimization.
result Successfully applied to neural network pruning, fine-tuning, and routing.
Work on making classifiers robust against adversarial attacks for top-k predictions.
problem Vulnerability of classifiers to adversarial perturbations, especially for top-k predictions.
method Randomized smoothing to turn any classifier into a robust one, using Gaussian noise.
result Derives a tight robustness in ℓ2 norm for top-k predictions, achieving 62.8% certified top-5 accuracy on ImageNet.
This paper compares average-K and top-K classification methods under ambiguity.
problem Choosing a single label in ambiguous cases leads to low precision.
method Formally characterizes ambiguity profiles and compares average-K and top-K classification methods.
result Average-K can achieve lower error rates than top-K in some ambiguous cases.
Proposes LML layer for multi-label predictions with k labels.
problem Efficient multi-label prediction with limited labels.
method Probabilistic multi-label modeling, efficient forward and backward passes.
result Improves top-k recall and accuracy in multi-label tasks.
Study on top-k classification with new loss functions and algorithms.
problem Improving multi-class classification accuracy and cardinality trade-off.
method Introducing cardinality-aware loss functions and deriving their consistency bounds.
result New cardinality-aware algorithms for top-k classification. This paper explores the preference-based top-K rank aggregation problem. Suppose that a collection of items is repeatedly compared in pairs, and one wishes to recover a consistent ordering that emphasizes the top-K ranked items, based on partially revealed preferences. We focus on the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model…
The paper proposes methods to identify and sample from mixtures of Mallows models for top-k rankings.
problem Identifying and sampling from mixtures of Mallows models for top-k rankings in a heterogeneous population.
method Efficient sampling algorithms and identifiability proofs for both components of the mixture.
result The identifiability and learnability of the Mallows components' parameters in the mixture.
Unified framework for deferring queries to top-k experts, improving accuracy-cost trade-offs.
problem Limitation of existing L2D frameworks to single-expert deferral.
method Top-k Learning-to-Defer framework, including adaptive Top-k(x) variant. result Superior accuracy-cost trade-offs with multi-expert deferral.
New method makes CNN interpretations robust to adversarial attacks.
problem Adversarial attacks on CNN interpretation maps.
method Renyi Differential Privacy (RDP) for robust interpretation.
result Certifiable top-k robustness and improved experimental robustness. Introduces top-k regularization for better feature selection in machine learning.
problem Limited ability of existing feature selection methods to reconcile feature representativeness and inter-correlations.
method Top-k regularization, which induces a sub-architecture on the model's architecture to select informative features and model complex relationships. result Uniform approximation error bound for top-k regularization approximating high-dimensional sparse functions. New insights into the top-K sparse softmax gating function for deep learning.
problem Understanding the theoretical effects of the top-K sparse softmax gating function on density and parameter estimations.
method Using a Gaussian mixture of experts, novel loss functions, and theoretical analysis.
result The convergence rates of density and parameter estimations are parametric under certain conditions, but slow under over-specified models.
We study the top-K ranking problem where the goal is to recover the set of top-K ranked items out of a large collection of items based on partially revealed preferences. We consider an adversarial crowdsourced setting where there are two population sets, and pairwise comparison samples drawn from one of the populat…
A new algorithm for top-k combinatorial bandits with full-bandit feedback.
problem Optimizing decisions among subsets of arms with only aggregate rewards observed.
method CSAR algorithm using Hadamard matrices for estimating individual arm rewards.
result Proved a tight lower bound on sample complexity for k=O(1).