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Graham Edge
dblp:345/7761
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0009-0009-9730-808XORCID · reported
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › ranking
learning to rank |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | How Well do Offline Metrics Predict Online Performance of Product Ranking Models? · SIGIR 2023 |
Information retrieval › retrieval evaluation
ranking evaluation |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | How Well do Offline Metrics Predict Online Performance of Product Ranking Models? · SIGIR 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
rank correlation · 0.7paired sample t-test · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | How Well do Offline Metrics Predict Online Performance of Product Ranking Models?abstractOnline evaluation techniques are widely adopted by industrial search engines to determine which ranking models perform better under a certain business metric. However, online evaluation can only evaluate a small number of rankers and people resort to offline evaluation to select rankers that are likely to yield good online performance. To use offline metrics for effective model selection, a major challenge is to understand how well offline metrics predict which ranking models perform better in online experiments. This paper aims to address this challenge in product search ranking. Towards this end, we collect gold data in the form of preferences over ranker pairs under a business metric in e-commerce search engine. For the first time, we use such gold data to evaluate offline metrics in terms of directional agreement with the business metric. Furthermore, we analyze offline metrics in terms of discriminative power through paired sample t-test and rank correlations among offline metrics. Through extensive online and offline experiments, we studied 36 offline metrics and observed that: (1) Offline metrics align well with online metrics: they agree on which one of two ranking models is better up to 97% of times; (2) Offline metrics are highly discriminative on large-scale search ranking data, especially NDCG (Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain) which has a discriminative power over 99%. Xiaojie Wang 0003, Ruoyuan Gao, Anoop Jain, Graham Edge, Sachin Ahuja |
SIGIR | 4 |