Ziming Li, Artem Grotov, Julia Kiseleva, Harrie Oosterhuis and I have just released a new preprint on “optimizing interactive systems with data-driven objectives” on arXiv. Effective optimization is essential for interactive systems to provide a satisfactory user experience. However, it is often challenging to find an objective to optimize for. Generally, such objectives are manually…
Month: February 2018
ICLR 2018 paper on Deep Learning with Logged Bandit Feedback online now
“Deep Learning with Logged Bandit Feedback” by Thorsten Joachims, Adith Swaminathan and Maarten de Rijke, to be published at ICLR 2018, is available online. In the paper we propose a new output layer for deep neural networks that permits the use of logged contextual bandit feedback for training. Such contextual bandit feedback can be available…
WWW 2018 paper on Manifold Learning for Rank Aggregation online
“Manifold Learning for Rank Aggregation” by Shangsong Liang, Ilya Markov, Zhaochun Ren, and Maarten de Rijke, which will be published at WWW 2018, is available online now. In the paper we address the task of fusing ranked lists of documents that are retrieved in response to a query. Past work on this task of rank…
JASIST paper “The birth of collective memories: Analyzing emerging entities in text streams” online
“The birth of collective memories: Analyzing emerging entities in text streams” by David Graus, Daan Odijk and Maarten de Rijke, to be published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology is online now at this location. In the paper we study how collective memories are formed online. We do so by…