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GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 9 days 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 4 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
13 years 24 days 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 6 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 4 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