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Personalized Web Search

Information Retrieval 2015-02-05 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Personalization is important for search engines to improve user experience. Most of the existing work do pure feature engineering and extract a lot of session-style features and then train a ranking model. Here we proposed a novel way to model both long term and short term user behavior using Multi-armed bandit algorithm. Our algorithm can generalize session information across users well, and as an Explore-Exploit style algorithm, it can generalize to new urls and new users well. Experiments show that our algorithm can improve performance over the default ranking and outperforms several popular Multi-armed bandit algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.1502.01057,
  title  = {Personalized Web Search},
  author = {Li Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01057},
  year   = {2015}
}
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