Summary of Investigating the Robustness Of Counterfactual Learning to Rank Models: a Reproducibility Study, by Zechun Niu et al.
Investigating the Robustness of Counterfactual Learning to Rank Models: A Reproducibility Study
by Zechun Niu, Jiaxin Mao, Qingyao Ai, Ji-Rong Wen
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: Counterfactual learning to rank (CLTR) has gained significant attention in the Information Retrieval community for its ability to utilize massive logged user interaction data to train ranking models. While theoretically unbiased when the user behavior assumption holds and propensity estimation is accurate, CLTR models are usually evaluated via simulation-based experiments due to a lack of large-scale real click logs. However, these simulations often feature a single deterministic production ranker and simplified user models, limiting the understanding of CLTR robustness in complex situations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: Researchers have been studying “Counterfactual Learning to Rank” (CLTR) because it can help create better rankings for search results. This method uses huge amounts of data on how people interact with websites to train a ranking model. While this approach should be fair, it’s hard to test its effectiveness using real data since there isn’t enough available. Instead, scientists use simulations that are simplified and don’t fully reflect how people really behave online. As a result, we still don’t know how well CLTR works in different situations. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention
