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Recommender systems (RSs) are software tools and algorithms developed to alleviate the problem of information overload, which makes it difficult for a user to make right decisions. Two main paradigms toward the recommendation problem are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

We consider learning problems of an intuitive and concise preference model, called lexicographic preference lists (LP-lists). Given a set of examples that are pairwise ordinal preferences over a universe of objects built of attributes of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ahmed Moussa , Xudong Liu

Many latent (factorized) models have been proposed for recommendation tasks like collaborative filtering and for ranking tasks like document or image retrieval and annotation. Common to all those methods is that during inference the items…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Jason Weston , John Blitzer

Ranking is a core task in recommender systems, which aims at providing an ordered list of items to users. Typically, a ranking function is learned from the labeled dataset to optimize the global performance, which produces a ranking score…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Changhua Pei , Yi Zhang , Yongfeng Zhang , Fei Sun , Xiao Lin , Hanxiao Sun , Jian Wu , Peng Jiang , Wenwu Ou

The Linear Ordering Problem (LOP) is a very popular NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with many practical applications that may require the use of large instances. The Linear Ordering Library (LOLIB) gathers a set of standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Lázaro Lugo , Carlos Segura , Gara Miranda

Learning to rank -- producing a ranked list of items specific to a query and with respect to a set of supervisory items -- is a problem of general interest. The setting we consider is one in which no analytic description of what constitutes…

Given a graph where vertices represent alternatives and arcs represent pairwise comparison data, the statistical ranking problem is to find a potential function, defined on the vertices, such that the gradient of the potential function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-05 Braxton Osting , Christoph Brune , Stanley J. Osher

The fair-ranking problem, which asks to rank a given set of items to maximize utility subject to group fairness constraints, has received attention in the fairness, information retrieval, and machine learning literature. Recent works,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Anay Mehrotra , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Label Ranking (LR) corresponds to the problem of learning a hypothesis that maps features to rankings over a finite set of labels. We adopt a nonparametric regression approach to LR and obtain theoretical performance guarantees for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Dimitris Fotakis , Alkis Kalavasis , Eleni Psaroudaki

We explore the fundamental problem of sorting through the lens of learning-augmented algorithms, where algorithms can leverage possibly erroneous predictions to improve their efficiency. We consider two different settings: In the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xingjian Bai , Christian Coester

We present a formulation of the relative depth estimation from a single image problem, as a ranking problem. By reformulating the problem this way, we were able to utilize literature on the ranking problem, and apply the existing knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Alican Mertan , Damien Jade Duff , Gozde Unal

In this work, we consider ranking problems among a finite set of candidates: for instance, selecting the top-$k$ items among a larger list of candidates or obtaining the full ranking of all items in the set. These problems are often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Ruiting Liang , Jake A. Soloff , Rina Foygel Barber , Rebecca Willett

The Ripper algorithm is designed to generate rule sets for large datasets with many features. However, it was shown that the algorithm struggles with classification performance in the presence of missing data. The algorithm struggles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Mlungisi Duma , Bhekisipho Twala , Tshilidzi Marwala

We present PackLib^2, the first fully integrated benchmark library for multi-dimensional packing instances. PackLib^2 combines a systematic collection of all benchmark instances from previous literature with a well-organized set of new and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Jan van der Veen

Label ranking is a prediction task which deals with learning a mapping between an instance and a ranking (i.e., order) of labels from a finite set, representing their relevance to the instance. Boosting is a well-known and reliable ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Lihi Dery , Erez Shmueli

We increasingly depend on a variety of data-driven algorithmic systems to assist us in many aspects of life. Search engines and recommender systems amongst others are used as sources of information and to help us in making all sort of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Evaggelia Pitoura , Kostas Stefanidis , Georgia Koutrika

Due to the inherent uncertainty of data, the problem of predicting partial ranking from pairwise comparison data with ties has attracted increasing interest in recent years. However, in real-world scenarios, different individuals often hold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Qianqian Xu , Xinwei Sun , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang , Yuan Yao

We introduce a new library named abess that implements a unified framework of best-subset selection for solving diverse machine learning problems, e.g., linear regression, classification, and principal component analysis. Particularly, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-02 Jin Zhu , Xueqin Wang , Liyuan Hu , Junhao Huang , Kangkang Jiang , Yanhang Zhang , Shiyun Lin , Junxian Zhu

This paper studies the problem of finding the exact ranking from noisy comparisons. A comparison over a set of $m$ items produces a noisy outcome about the most preferred item, and reveals some information about the ranking. By repeatedly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wenbo Ren , Jia Liu , Ness B. Shroff

The label ranking problem is a supervised learning scenario in which the learner predicts a total order of the class labels for a given input instance. Recently, research has increasingly focused on the partial label ranking problem, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jiayi Wang , Juan C. Alfaro , Viktor Bengs