Continuation methods and curriculum learning for learning to rank

Nicola Ferro, Maria Maistro, Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego

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Abstract

In this paper we explore the use of Continuation Methods and Curriculum Learning techniques in the area of Learning to Rank. The basic idea is to design the training process as a learning path across increasingly complex training instances and objective functions. We propose to instantiate continuation methods in Learning to Rank by changing the IR measure to optimize during training, and we present two different curriculum learning strategies to identify easy training examples. Experimental results show that simple continuation methods are more promising than curriculum learning ones since they allow for slightly improving the performance of state-of-the-art ?-MART models and provide a faster convergence speed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM 2018 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
EditorsNorman Paton, Selcuk Candan, Haixun Wang, James Allan, Rakesh Agrawal, Alexandros Labrinidis, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Mohammed Zaki, Divesh Srivastava, Andrei Broder, Assaf Schuster
Number of pages4
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Publication date17 Oct 2018
Pages1523-1526
ISBN (Electronic)9781450360142
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Oct 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018 - Torino, Italy
Duration: 22 Oct 201826 Oct 2018

Conference

Conference27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTorino
Period22/10/201826/10/2018
SponsorACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB

Keywords

  • Curriculum learning
  • Lambdamart
  • Learning to rank

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