TY - CHAP

T1 - Winning The Transfer Learning Track of Yahoo!'s Learning To Rank Challenge with YetiRank

AU - Gulin, Andrey

AU - Kuralenok, Igor

AU - Pavlov, Dmitry

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The problem of ranking the documents according to their relevance to a given query is a hot topic in information retrieval. Most learning-to-rank methods are supervised and use human editor judgements for learning. In this paper, we introduce novel pairwise method called YetiRank that modies Friedman's gradient boosting method in part of gradient computation for optimization and takes uncertainty in human judgements into account. Proposed enhancements allowed YetiRank to outperform many state-of-the-art learning to rank methods in oine experiments as well as take the rst place in the second track of the Yahoo! learning-to-rank contest. Even more remarkably, the rst result in the learning to rank competition that consisted of a transfer learning task was achieved without ever relying on the bigger data from the "transfer-from" domain.

AB - The problem of ranking the documents according to their relevance to a given query is a hot topic in information retrieval. Most learning-to-rank methods are supervised and use human editor judgements for learning. In this paper, we introduce novel pairwise method called YetiRank that modies Friedman's gradient boosting method in part of gradient computation for optimization and takes uncertainty in human judgements into account. Proposed enhancements allowed YetiRank to outperform many state-of-the-art learning to rank methods in oine experiments as well as take the rst place in the second track of the Yahoo! learning-to-rank contest. Even more remarkably, the rst result in the learning to rank competition that consisted of a transfer learning task was achieved without ever relying on the bigger data from the "transfer-from" domain.

M3 - статья в сборнике

BT - Proceedings of the Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge

ER -