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Online Learning to Rank with Features

Machine Learning 2019-05-28 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce a new model for online ranking in which the click probability factors into an examination and attractiveness function and the attractiveness function is a linear function of a feature vector and an unknown parameter. Only relatively mild assumptions are made on the examination function. A novel algorithm for this setup is analysed, showing that the dependence on the number of items is replaced by a dependence on the dimension, allowing the new algorithm to handle a large number of items. When reduced to the orthogonal case, the regret of the algorithm improves on the state-of-the-art.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02567,
  title  = {Online Learning to Rank with Features},
  author = {Shuai Li and Tor Lattimore and Csaba Szepesvári},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02567},
  year   = {2019}
}
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