Learning to Rank with Nonsmooth Cost Functions

NIPS 2006: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 193-200

  Burges, Christopher J C ^a   Ragno, Robert ^a   Le, Quoc Viet ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONDITION; COST-FUNCTION; DIFFERENTIABLE FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION CLASS; MODELING PARAMETERS; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; NONSMOOTH COST FUNCTION; QUALITY MEASURES; RANKING ALGORITHM; SIMPLE++;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85157965754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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