Learning Diverse Rankings with Multi-Armed Bandits
Description
Algorithms for learning to rank Web documents usually assume a document's relevance is independent of other documents. This leads to learned ranking functions that produce rankings with redundant results. In contrast, user studies have shown that diversity at high ranks is often preferred. We present two new learning algorithms that directly learn a diverse ranking of documents based on users' clicking behavior. We show that these algorithms minimize abandonment, or alternatively, maximize the probability that a relevant document is found in the top k positions of a ranking. We show that one of our algorithms asymptotically achieves the best possible payoff obtainable in polynomial time even as user's interests change. The other performs better empirically when user interests are static, and is still theoretically near-optimal in that case.
| Slides | |
| 0:00 | Learning Diverse Rankings with Multi-Armed Bandits |
| 0:13 | The Importance of Being Diverse |
| 2:12 | Using Implicit Feedback |
| 5:22 | Prior Work |
| 7:21 | Prior Work (cont’d) |
| 10:02 | Our Results |
| 11:44 | Outline of This Talk |
| 12:06 | Multi-armed Bandit Problems |
| 14:33 | Multi-armed Bandit Problems |
| 15:41 | Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms |
| 19:04 | Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms |
| 20:12 | Abandonment Minimization |
| 21:19 | Offline Complexity of Abandonment Minimization |
| 22:23 | Analysis of Greedy Algorithm |
| 22:24 | Abandonment Minimization as a Bandit Problem |
| 23:23 | Ranked Explore and Commit |
| 24:17 | Ranked Bandits Algorithm |
| 25:04 | Ranked Bandits Algorithm |
| 25:14 | Extension: probabilistic users |
| 25:16 | Simulation Environment |
| 25:18 | Evaluation |
| 25:46 | Evaluation |
| 26:34 | Conclusions |
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