Learning-to-Rank (LtR) techniques leverage machine learning algorithms and large amounts of training data to induce high-quality ranking functions. Given a set of documents and a user query, these functions are able to predict a score for each of the documents that is in turn exploited to induce a relevance ranking. .e e.ectiveness of these learned functions has been proved to be signi.cantly a.ected by the data used to learn them. Several analysis and document selection strategies have been proposed in the past to deal with this aspect. In this paper we review the state-of-the-art proposals and we report the results of a preliminary investigation of a new sampling strategy aimed at reducing the number of not relevant query-document pairs, so to signi.cantly decrease the training time of the learning algorithm and to increase the .nal e.ectiveness of the model by reducing noise and redundancy in the training set.

The Impact of Negative Samples on Learning to Rank

Claudio Lucchese;
2017-01-01

Abstract

Learning-to-Rank (LtR) techniques leverage machine learning algorithms and large amounts of training data to induce high-quality ranking functions. Given a set of documents and a user query, these functions are able to predict a score for each of the documents that is in turn exploited to induce a relevance ranking. .e e.ectiveness of these learned functions has been proved to be signi.cantly a.ected by the data used to learn them. Several analysis and document selection strategies have been proposed in the past to deal with this aspect. In this paper we review the state-of-the-art proposals and we report the results of a preliminary investigation of a new sampling strategy aimed at reducing the number of not relevant query-document pairs, so to signi.cantly decrease the training time of the learning algorithm and to increase the .nal e.ectiveness of the model by reducing noise and redundancy in the training set.
2017
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