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2010
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LETOR: A benchmark collection for research on learning to rank for information retrieval
LETOR is a benchmark collection for the research on learning to rank for information retrieval, released by Microsoft Research Asia. In this paper, we describe the details of the L...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, Hang Li
IR
2010
13 years 4 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