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Recently, result diversification has attracted a lot of attention as a means to improve the quality of results retrieved by user queries. In this paper, we propose a new, intuitive definition of diversity called DisC diversity. A DisC…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Marina Drosou , Evaggelia Pitoura

Cascade ranking is a widely adopted paradigm in large-scale information retrieval systems for Top-K item selection. However, the Top-K operator is non-differentiable, hindering end-to-end training. Existing methods include Learning-to-Rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yanjie Zhu , Zhen Zhang , Yunli Wang , Zhiqiang Wang , Yu Li , Rufan Zhou , Shiyang Wen , Peng Jiang , Chenhao Lin , Jian Yang

Given a large network and a query node, finding its top-k similar nodes is a primitive operation in many graph-based applications. Recently enhancing search results with diversification have received much attention. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Zaiqiao Meng , Hong Shen

Enumeration problems aim at outputting, without repetition, the set of solutions to a given problem instance. However, outputting the entire solution set may be prohibitively expensive if it is too big. In this case, outputting a small,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Timo Camillo Merkl , Reinhard Pichler , Sebastian Skritek

We consider the Top-$K$ selection problem, which aims to identify the largest $K$ elements in an array. Top-$K$ selection arises in many machine learning algorithms and often becomes a bottleneck on accelerators, which are optimized for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yashas Samaga , Varun Yerram , Spandana Raj Babbula , Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli

Database queries are often used to select and rank items as decision support for many applications. As automated decision-making tools become more prevalent, there is a growing recognition of the need to diversify their outcomes. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Felix S. Campbell , Alon Silberstein , Julia Stoyanovich , Yuval Moskovitch

Subgraph matching is a core task in graph analytics, widely used in domains such as biology, finance, and social networks. Existing top-k diversified methods typically focus on maximizing vertex coverage, but often return results in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Liuyi Chen , Yuchen Hu , Zhengyi Yang , Xu Zhou , Wenjie Zhang , Kenli Li

In many real-world problems and applications, finding only a single element, even though the best, among all possible candidates, cannot fully meet the requirements. We may wish to have a collection where each individual is not only…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jiongzhi Zheng , Jinghui Xue , Kun He , Chu-Min Li , Yanli Liu

Recently, many studies have been devoted to finding diverse solutions in classical combinatorial problems, such as Vertex Cover (Baste et al., IJCAI'20), Matching (Fomin et al., ISAAC'20) and Spanning Tree (Hanaka et al., AAAI'21). We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mark de Berg , Andrés López Martínez , Frits Spieksma

Let ${\cal{D}}$ = $\{d_1, d_2, d_3, ..., d_D\}$ be a given set of $D$ (string) documents of total length $n$. The top-$k$ document retrieval problem is to index $\cal{D}$ such that when a pattern $P$ of length $p$, and a parameter $k$ come…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Rahul Shah , Cheng Sheng , Sharma V. Thankachan , Jeffrey Scott Vitter

The top-k operation, i.e., finding the k largest or smallest elements from a collection of scores, is an important model component, which is widely used in information retrieval, machine learning, and data mining. However, if the top-k…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Xie , Hanjun Dai , Minshuo Chen , Bo Dai , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha , Wei Wei , Tomas Pfister

In many real-world applications such as business planning and sensor data monitoring, one important, yet challenging, the task is to rank objects(e.g., products, documents, or spatial objects) based on their ranking scores and efficiently…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Niranjan Rai , Xiang Lian

The task of extracting a diverse subset from a dataset, often referred to as maximum diversification, plays a pivotal role in various real-world applications that have far-reaching consequences. In this work, we delve into the realm of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yash Kurkure , Miles Shamo , Joseph Wiseman , Sainyam Galhotra , Stavros Sintos

The top-k operator returns a sparse vector, where the non-zero values correspond to the k largest values of the input. Unfortunately, because it is a discontinuous function, it is difficult to incorporate in neural networks trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Michael E. Sander , Joan Puigcerver , Josip Djolonga , Gabriel Peyré , Mathieu Blondel

The max-k-cut problem is to partition the vertices of a weighted graph $G = (V,E)$ into $k\geq2$ disjoint subsets such that the weight sum of the edges crossing the different subsets is maximized. The problem is referred as the max-cut…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Fuda Ma , Jin-Kao Hao

In this paper we analyze the efficiency of various search results diversification methods. While efficacy of diversification approaches has been deeply investigated in the past, response time and scalability issues have been rarely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Gabriele Capannini , Franco Maria Nardini , Raffaele Perego , Fabrizio Silvestri

Diversifying return results is an important research topic in retrieval systems in order to satisfy both the various interests of customers and the equal market exposure of providers. There has been growing attention on diversity-aware…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Haolun Wu , Yansen Zhang , Chen Ma , Fuyuan Lyu , Bowei He , Bhaskar Mitra , Xue Liu

We study the similarity search problem which aims to find the similar query results according to a set of given data and a query string. To balance the result number and result quality, we combine query result diversity with query…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Ruoxi Shi , Hongzhi Wang , Tao Wang , Yutai Hou , Yiwen Tang

Recently, in the area of big data, some popular applications such as web search engines and recommendation systems, face the problem to diversify results during query processing. In this sense, it is both significant and essential to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Meifan Zhang , Hongzhi Wang , Jianzhong Li , Hong Gao

ADiT is an adaptive approach for processing distributed top-$k$ queries over peer-to-peer networks optimizing both system load and query response time. This approach considers the size of the peer to peer network, the amount $k$ of searched…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Claus Dabringer , Johann Eder
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