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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-...
IR
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
ALT
2010
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
PageRank Optimization in Polynomial Time by Stochastic Shortest Path Reformulation
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
Balázs Csanád Csáji, Rapha&eu...
KDD
2006
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Beyond classification and ranking: constrained optimization of the ROI
Classification has been commonly used in many data mining projects in the financial service industry. For instance, to predict collectability of accounts receivable, a binary clas...
Lian Yan, Patrick Baldasare
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Learning to rank relevant and novel documents through user feedback
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Abhimanyu Lad, Yiming Yang