Early exit optimizations for additive machine learned ranking systems

WSDM 2010 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 411-420

  Cambazoglu, B Barla ^a   Zaragoza, Hugo ^a   Chapelle, Olivier ^b   Chen, Jiang ^b   Liao, Ciya ^b   Zheng, Zhaohui ^b   Degenhardt, Jon ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Early exit; Machine learning; Optimization; Web search

Indexed keywords

EARLY EXIT; MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE-LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; QUALITY OF RESULTS; QUERY LOGS; QUERY RESPONSE; RANKING PROCESS; RANKING SYSTEM; SOPHISTICATED MACHINES; WEB DOCUMENT; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77950920877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718487.1718538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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