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In this paper, we examine how deep learning can be utilized to investigate neural health and the difficulties in interpreting neurological analyses within algorithmic models. The key contribution of this paper is the investigation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Abdullatif Baba

A very timely issue for economic agent-based models (ABMs) is their empirical estimation. This paper describes a line of research that could resolve the issue by using machine learning techniques, using multi-layer artificial neural…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-06-21 Sander van der Hoog

The growing interest in both the automation of machine learning and deep learning has inevitably led to the development of a wide variety of automated methods for neural architecture search. The choice of the network architecture has proven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Martin Wistuba , Ambrish Rawat , Tejaswini Pedapati

Deep learning has solved a problem that as little as five years ago was thought by many to be intractable - the automatic recognition of patterns in data; and it can do so with accuracy that often surpasses human beings. It has solved…

Evaluation plays a crucial role in the development of ranking algorithms on search and recommender systems. It enables online platforms to create user-friendly features that drive commercial success in a steady and effective manner. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Qing Zhang , Alex Deng , Michelle Du , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Sanjeev Katariya

With the ever-growing volume of online information, recommender systems have been an effective strategy to overcome such information overload. The utility of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its widespread adoption in many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Yi Tay

The success of deep learning depends on finding an architecture to fit the task. As deep learning has scaled up to more challenging tasks, the architectures have become difficult to design by hand. This paper proposes an automated method,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Risto Miikkulainen , Jason Liang , Elliot Meyerson , Aditya Rawal , Dan Fink , Olivier Francon , Bala Raju , Hormoz Shahrzad , Arshak Navruzyan , Nigel Duffy , Babak Hodjat

This paper concerns a deep learning approach to relevance ranking in information retrieval (IR). Existing deep IR models such as DSSM and CDSSM directly apply neural networks to generate ranking scores, without explicit understandings of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Liang Pang , Yanyan Lan , Jiafeng Guo , Jun Xu , Jingfang Xu , Xueqi Cheng

Existing object proposal approaches use primarily bottom-up cues to rank proposals, while we believe that objectness is in fact a high level construct. We argue for a data-driven, semantic approach for ranking object proposals. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Weicheng Kuo , Bharath Hariharan , Jitendra Malik

In online marketplaces like Airbnb, users frequently engage in comparison shopping before making purchase decisions. Despite the prevalence of this behavior, a significant disconnect persists between mainstream e-commerce search engines and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jie Tang , Daochen Zha , Xin Liu , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Stephanie Moyerman , Sanjeev Katariya

Deep neural networks have recently drawn considerable attention to build and evaluate artificial learning models for perceptual tasks. Here, we present a study on the performance of the deep learning models to deal with global optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hojjat Rakhshani , Lhassane Idoumghar , Soheila Ghambari , Julien Lepagnot , Mathieu Brévilliers

Deep Neural Network classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attack, where an imperceptible perturbation could result in misclassification. However, the vulnerability of DNN-based image ranking systems remains under-explored. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mo Zhou , Le Wang , Zhenxing Niu , Qilin Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

Deep Learning has enabled remarkable progress over the last years on a variety of tasks, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation. One crucial aspect for this progress are novel neural architectures. Currently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-29 Thomas Elsken , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Frank Hutter

In the past decade, advances in deep learning have resulted in breakthroughs in a variety of areas, including computer vision, natural language understanding, speech recognition, and reinforcement learning. Specialized, high-performing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Colin White , Mahmoud Safari , Rhea Sukthanker , Binxin Ru , Thomas Elsken , Arber Zela , Debadeepta Dey , Frank Hutter

Airbnb is an online marketplace that connects hosts and guests to unique stays and experiences. When guests stay at homes booked on Airbnb, there are a small fraction of stays that lead to support needed from Airbnb's Customer Support (CS),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Do-kyum Kim , Han Zhao , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Malay Haldar , Sanjeev Katariya

Airbnb is a leader in offering travel accommodations. Airbnb has historically relied on structured data to understand, rank, and recommend listings to guests due to the limited capabilities and associated complexity arising from extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Guillaume Guy , Mihajlo Grbovic , Chun How Tan , Han Zhao

We present LiRank, a large-scale ranking framework at LinkedIn that brings to production state-of-the-art modeling architectures and optimization methods. We unveil several modeling improvements, including Residual DCN, which adds attention…

Deep Neural networks are efficient and flexible models that perform well for a variety of tasks such as image, speech recognition and natural language understanding. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNN) generate a keen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Yesmina Jaafra , Jean Luc Laurent , Aline Deruyver , Mohamed Saber Naceur

Matrix completion is a classic problem underlying recommender systems. It is traditionally tackled with matrix factorization. Recently, deep learning based methods, especially graph neural networks, have made impressive progress on this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Tieyun Qian , Yile Liang , Qing Li

Edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI), especially deep learning for nowadays, are gradually intersecting to build a novel system, called edge intelligence. However, the development of edge intelligence systems encounters some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Di Liu , Hao Kong , Xiangzhong Luo , Weichen Liu , Ravi Subramaniam