Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
An efficient boosting algorithm for combining preferences
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Large Margin Methods for Structured and Interdependent Output Variables
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Learning to rank using gradient descent
ICML '05 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning
A support vector method for multivariate performance measures
ICML '05 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning
Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning to rank: from pairwise approach to listwise approach
Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning
Pegasos: Primal Estimated sub-GrAdient SOlver for SVM
Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning
A support vector method for optimizing average precision
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
FRank: a ranking method with fidelity loss
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
AdaRank: a boosting algorithm for information retrieval
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics
WSDM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Query-level loss functions for information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Structured learning for non-smooth ranking losses
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Exponentiated Gradient Algorithms for Conditional Random Fields and Max-Margin Markov Networks
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
An efficient projection for l1, ∞ regularization
ICML '09 Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning
Generalization Bounds for Ranking Algorithms via Algorithmic Stability
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Gradient descent optimization of smoothed information retrieval metrics
Information Retrieval
Efficient algorithms for ranking with SVMs
Information Retrieval
COLT'06 Proceedings of the 19th annual conference on Learning Theory
Statistical Analysis of Bayes Optimal Subset Ranking
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Recent developments in information retrieval
ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
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Machine learning ranking methods are increasingly applied to ranking tasks in information retrieval (IR). However ranking tasks in IR often differ from standard ranking tasks in machine learning, both in terms of problem structure and in terms of the evaluation criteria used to measure performance. Consequently, there has been much interest in recent years in developing ranking algorithms that directly optimize IR ranking measures. Here we propose a family of ranking algorithms that preserve the simplicity of standard pair-wise ranking methods in machine learning, yet show performance comparable to state-of-the-art IR ranking algorithms. Our algorithms optimize variations of the hinge loss used in support vector machines (SVMs); we discuss three variations, and in each case, give simple and efficient stochastic gradient algorithms to solve the resulting optimization problems. Two of these are stochastic gradient projection algorithms, one of which relies on a recent method for l1,∞-norm projections; the third is a stochastic exponentiated gradient algorithm. The algorithms are simple and efficient, have provable convergence properties, and in our preliminary experiments, show performance close to state-of-the-art algorithms that directly optimize IR ranking measures.