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20182021
most citedOn the Difficulty of Evaluating Baselines: A Study on Recommender Systems

92 citations · 102 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.LG20211 cited

iALS++: Speeding up Matrix Factorization with Subspace Optimization

Steffen Rendle, Walid Krichene, Li Zhang +1

iALS is a popular algorithm for learning matrix factorization models from implicit feedback with alternating least squares. This algorithm was invented over a decade ago but still…

cs.IR20212 cited

Revisiting the Performance of iALS on Item Recommendation Benchmarks

Steffen Rendle, Walid Krichene, Li Zhang +1

Matrix factorization learned by implicit alternating least squares (iALS) is a popular baseline in recommender system research publications. iALS is known to be one of the most com…

cs.LG20211 cited

Private Alternating Least Squares: Practical Private Matrix Completion with Tighter Rates

Steve Chien, Prateek Jain, Walid Krichene +4

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) matrix completion under user-level privacy. We design a joint differentially private variant of the popular Alternating-Least-Sq…

cs.LG20206 cited

Superbloom: Bloom filter meets Transformer

John Anderson, Qingqing Huang, Walid Krichene +2

We extend the idea of word pieces in natural language models to machine learning tasks on opaque ids. This is achieved by applying hash functions to map each id to multiple hash to…

cs.IR201992 cited

On the Difficulty of Evaluating Baselines: A Study on Recommender Systems

Steffen Rendle, Li Zhang, Yehuda Koren

Numerical evaluations with comparisons to baselines play a central role when judging research in recommender systems. In this paper, we show that running baselines properly is diff…

stat.ML2018

Efficient Training on Very Large Corpora via Gramian Estimation

Walid Krichene, Nicolas Mayoraz, Steffen Rendle +5

We study the problem of learning similarity functions over very large corpora using neural network embedding models. These models are typically trained using SGD with sampling of r…