Position bias estimation for unbiased learning to rank in personal search

X Wang, N Golbandi, M Bendersky, D Metzler… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
A well-known challenge in learning from click data is its inherent bias and most notably
position bias. Traditional click models aim to extract the‹ query, document› relevance and …

Learning to rank with selection bias in personal search

X Wang, M Bendersky, D Metzler… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Click-through data has proven to be a critical resource for improving search ranking quality.
Though a large amount of click data can be easily collected by search engines, various …

Unbiased learning to rank with unbiased propensity estimation

Q Ai, K Bi, C Luo, J Guo, WB Croft - The 41st international ACM SIGIR …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Learning to rank with biased click data is a well-known challenge. A variety of methods has
been explored to debias click data for learning to rank such as click models, result …

Addressing trust bias for unbiased learning-to-rank

A Agarwal, X Wang, C Li, M Bendersky… - The World Wide Web …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Existing unbiased learning-to-rank models use counterfactual inference, notably Inverse
Propensity Scoring (IPS), to learn a ranking function from biased click data. They handle the …

Unbiased lambdamart: an unbiased pairwise learning-to-rank algorithm

Z Hu, Y Wang, Q Peng, H Li - The World Wide Web Conference, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recently a number of algorithms under the theme of'unbiased learning-to-rank'have been
proposed, which can reduce position bias, the major type of bias in click data, and train a …

Unbiased learning-to-rank with biased feedback

T Joachims, A Swaminathan, T Schnabel - Proceedings of the tenth …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Implicit feedback (eg, clicks, dwell times, etc.) is an abundant source of data in human-
interactive systems. While implicit feedback has many advantages (eg, it is inexpensive to …

Multileave gradient descent for fast online learning to rank

A Schuth, H Oosterhuis, S Whiteson… - proceedings of the ninth …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Modern search systems are based on dozens or even hundreds of ranking features. The
dueling bandit gradient descent (DBGD) algorithm has been shown to effectively learn …

Are click-through data adequate for learning web search rankings?

Z Dou, R Song, X Yuan, JR Wen - … of the 17th ACM conference on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search,
require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examples is …

Online learning to rank in stochastic click models

M Zoghi, T Tunys, M Ghavamzadeh… - International …, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
Online learning to rank is a core problem in information retrieval and machine learning.
Many provably efficient algorithms have been recently proposed for this problem in specific …

Unbiased learning to rank in feeds recommendation

X Wu, H Chen, J Zhao, L He, D Yin… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In feeds recommendation, users are able to constantly browse items generated by never-
ending feeds using mobile phones. The implicit feedback from users is an important …