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Learning to rank using gradient descent

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Nicole Hamilton,

Greg HullenderAuthors Info & Claims

ICML '05: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning

Pages 89 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/1102351.1102363

Published: 07 August 2005 Publication History

Abstract

We investigate using gradient descent methods for learning ranking functions; we propose a simple probabilistic cost function, and we introduce RankNet, an implementation of these ideas using a neural network to model the underlying ranking function. We present test results on toy data and on data from a commercial internet search engine.

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ICML '05: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning

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DOI:10.1145/1102351

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