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IR
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
GECCO
2010
Springer
158views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Efficiently evolving programs through the search for novelty
A significant challenge in genetic programming is premature convergence to local optima, which often prevents evolution from solving problems. This paper introduces to genetic pro...
Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley
SIAMCOMP
2002
142views more  SIAMCOMP 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
On Binary Searching with Nonuniform Costs
Let us consider an ordered vector A[1 : n]. If the cost of testing each position is similar, then the standard binary search is the best strategy to search the vector. This is true...
Eduardo Sany Laber, Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Artur...
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
SemRank: ranking complex relationship search results on the semantic web
While the idea that querying mechanisms for complex relationships (otherwise known as Semantic Associations) should be integral to Semantic Web search technologies has recently ga...
Kemafor Anyanwu, Angela Maduko, Amit P. Sheth
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
241views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 9 months ago
Neighborhood based fast graph search in large networks
Complex social and information network search becomes important with a variety of applications. In the core of these applications, lies a common and critical problem: Given a labe...
Arijit Khan, Nan Li, Xifeng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Supriy...