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20132026
most citedLearning-to-Rank with BERT in TF-Ranking

60 citations · 101 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CV2026

YOUDrive: Driving Style as a Composable Direction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Guantian Zheng, Lidong Yu, Tianyu Gao +3

End-to-end driving policies can achieve strong task performance while offering limited control over their driving style. Driving style describes how a vehicle accelerates, brakes,…

cs.IR2023

Entire Space Cascade Delayed Feedback Modeling for Effective Conversion Rate Prediction

Yunfeng Zhao, Xu Yan, Xiaoqiang Gui +6

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction is an essential task for large-scale e-commerce platforms. However, refund behaviors frequently occur after conversion in online shopping systems,…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Capturing Conversion Rate Fluctuation during Sales Promotions: A Novel Historical Data Reuse Approach

Zhangming Chan, Yu Zhang, Shuguang Han +8

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction is one of the core components in online recommender systems, and various approaches have been proposed to obtain accurate and well-calibrated CVR e…

cs.IR2023

Rec4Ad: A Free Lunch to Mitigate Sample Selection Bias for Ads CTR Prediction in Taobao

Jingyue Gao, Shuguang Han, Han Zhu +4

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction serves as a fundamental component in online advertising. A common practice is to train a CTR model on advertisement (ad) impressions with user f…

cs.IR2023

COPR: Consistency-Oriented Pre-Ranking for Online Advertising

Zhishan Zhao, Jingyue Gao, Yu Zhang +8

Cascading architecture has been widely adopted in large-scale advertising systems to balance efficiency and effectiveness. In this architecture, the pre-ranking model is expected t…

cs.IR2022★ 5 cited

Towards Understanding the Overfitting Phenomenon of Deep Click-Through Rate Prediction Models

Zhao-Yu Zhang, Xiang-Rong Sheng, Yujing Zhang +4

Deep learning techniques have been applied widely in industrial recommendation systems. However, far less attention has been paid to the overfitting problem of models in recommenda…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

KEEP: An Industrial Pre-Training Framework for Online Recommendation via Knowledge Extraction and Plugging

Yujing Zhang, Zhangming Chan, Shuhao Xu +4

An industrial recommender system generally presents a hybrid list that contains results from multiple subsystems. In practice, each subsystem is optimized with its own feedback dat…

cs.IR2022

Joint Optimization of Ranking and Calibration with Contextualized Hybrid Model

Xiang-Rong Sheng, Jingyue Gao, Yueyao Cheng +6

Despite the development of ranking optimization techniques, pointwise loss remains the dominating approach for click-through rate prediction. It can be attributed to the calibratio…

cs.IR2021

Adversarial Gradient Driven Exploration for Deep Click-Through Rate Prediction

Kailun Wu, Zhangming Chan, Weijie Bian +5

Exploration-Exploitation (E{\&}E) algorithms are commonly adopted to deal with the feedback-loop issue in large-scale online recommender systems. Most of existing studies believe t…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Capturing Delayed Feedback in Conversion Rate Prediction via Elapsed-Time Sampling

Jia-Qi Yang, Xiang Li, Shuguang Han +4

Conversion rate (CVR) prediction is one of the most critical tasks for digital display advertising. Commercial systems often require to update models in an online learning manner t…

cs.IR2020★ 15 cited

RRF102: Meeting the TREC-COVID Challenge with a 100+ Runs Ensemble

Michael Bendersky, Honglei Zhuang, Ji Ma +3

In this paper, we report the results of our participation in the TREC-COVID challenge. To meet the challenge of building a search engine for rapidly evolving biomedical collection,…

cs.IR2020★ 60 cited

Learning-to-Rank with BERT in TF-Ranking

Shuguang Han, Xuanhui Wang, Mike Bendersky +1

This paper describes a machine learning algorithm for document (re)ranking, in which queries and documents are firstly encoded using BERT [1], and on top of that a learning-to-rank…

cs.CL2017★ 7 cited

Deep Keyphrase Generation

Rui Meng, Sanqiang Zhao, Shuguang Han +3

Keyphrase provides highly-condensed information that can be effectively used for understanding, organizing and retrieving text content. Though previous studies have provided many w…

cs.IR2014

Benchmarking the Privacy-Preserving People Search

Shuguang Han, Daqing He, Zhen Yue

People search is an important topic in information retrieval. Many previous studies on this topic employed social networks to boost search performance by incorporating either local…

cs.IR2013★ 10 cited

Automatic Detection of Search Tactic in Individual Information Seeking: A Hidden Markov Model Approach

Shuguang Han, Zhen Yue, Daqing He

Information seeking process is an important topic in information seeking behavior research. Both qualitative and empirical methods have been adopted in analyzing information seekin…