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ALT
2010
Springer
13 years 24 days ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. The importance of a node in a directed graph can be measured by its PageRank. The PageRank of a node is used in a number of application contexts
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
2009
Springer
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
GECCO
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
2009
Springer
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...
IR
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
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...
TIT
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Abstract--The ranking problem has become increasingly important in modern applications of statistical methods in automated decision making systems. In particular, we consider a for...