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Main Authors: Yu, Xiao, Zhang, Jinzhong, Yu, Zhou
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16349
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author Yu, Xiao
Zhang, Jinzhong
Yu, Zhou
author_facet Yu, Xiao
Zhang, Jinzhong
Yu, Zhou
contents A reliable resume-job matching system helps a company find suitable candidates from a pool of resumes, and helps a job seeker find relevant jobs from a list of job posts. However, since job seekers apply only to a few jobs, interaction records in resume-job datasets are sparse. Different from many prior work that use complex modeling techniques, we tackle this sparsity problem using data augmentations and a simple contrastive learning approach. ConFit first creates an augmented resume-job dataset by paraphrasing specific sections in a resume or a job post. Then, ConFit uses contrastive learning to further increase training samples from $B$ pairs per batch to $O(B^2)$ per batch. We evaluate ConFit on two real-world datasets and find it outperforms prior methods (including BM25 and OpenAI text-ada-002) by up to 19% and 31% absolute in nDCG@10 for ranking jobs and ranking resumes, respectively.
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spellingShingle ConFit: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning
Yu, Xiao
Zhang, Jinzhong
Yu, Zhou
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
A reliable resume-job matching system helps a company find suitable candidates from a pool of resumes, and helps a job seeker find relevant jobs from a list of job posts. However, since job seekers apply only to a few jobs, interaction records in resume-job datasets are sparse. Different from many prior work that use complex modeling techniques, we tackle this sparsity problem using data augmentations and a simple contrastive learning approach. ConFit first creates an augmented resume-job dataset by paraphrasing specific sections in a resume or a job post. Then, ConFit uses contrastive learning to further increase training samples from $B$ pairs per batch to $O(B^2)$ per batch. We evaluate ConFit on two real-world datasets and find it outperforms prior methods (including BM25 and OpenAI text-ada-002) by up to 19% and 31% absolute in nDCG@10 for ranking jobs and ranking resumes, respectively.
title ConFit: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning
topic Computation and Language
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16349