Ranking Task
Ranking tasks, the process of ordering items based on relevance or preference, are central to many applications, particularly in recommender systems and search engines. Current research focuses on improving ranking accuracy and efficiency through techniques like knowledge distillation to compress large models, multimodal fusion to leverage diverse data sources (text and images), and the development of novel algorithms such as graph neural networks and gradient boosting decision trees. These advancements aim to enhance user experience, personalize results, and address challenges like bias mitigation and the "right to be forgotten" in online learning settings, ultimately impacting the effectiveness and fairness of large-scale information retrieval and recommendation systems.
Papers
Compound virtual screening by learning-to-rank with gradient boosting decision tree and enrichment-based cumulative gain
Kairi Furui, Masahito Ohue
P^3 Ranker: Mitigating the Gaps between Pre-training and Ranking Fine-tuning with Prompt-based Learning and Pre-finetuning
Xiaomeng Hu, Shi Yu, Chenyan Xiong, Zhenghao Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Ge Yu