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The 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008)

Learning Diverse Rankings with Multi-Armed Bandits

author: Robert Kleinberg, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

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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.

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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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