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2010
13 years 3 months ago
A general approximation framework for direct optimization of information retrieval measures
Recently direct optimization of information retrieval (IR) measures becomes a new trend in learning to rank. Several methods have been proposed and the effectiveness of them has ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank
One of the central issues in learning to rank for information retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures used in i...
Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma
IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Gradient descent optimization of smoothed information retrieval metrics
Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
Olivier Chapelle, Mingrui Wu
MIR
2004
ACM
153views Multimedia» more  MIR 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Clip-based similarity measure for hierarchical video retrieval
This paper proposes a new approach and algorithm for the similarity measure of video clips. The similarity is mainly based on two bipartite graph matching algorithms: maximum matc...
Yuxin Peng, Chong-Wah Ngo
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...