A Self-boosted Framework for Calibrated Ranking

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Shunyu, Liu, Hu, Bao, Wentian, Yu, Enyun, Song, Yang
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author Zhang, Shunyu
Liu, Hu
Bao, Wentian
Yu, Enyun
Song, Yang
author_facet Zhang, Shunyu
Liu, Hu
Bao, Wentian
Yu, Enyun
Song, Yang
contents Scale-calibrated ranking systems are ubiquitous in real-world applications nowadays, which pursue accurate ranking quality and calibrated probabilistic predictions simultaneously. For instance, in the advertising ranking system, the predicted click-through rate (CTR) is utilized for ranking and required to be calibrated for the downstream cost-per-click ads bidding. Recently, multi-objective based methods have been wildly adopted as a standard approach for Calibrated Ranking, which incorporates the combination of two loss functions: a pointwise loss that focuses on calibrated absolute values and a ranking loss that emphasizes relative orderings. However, when applied to industrial online applications, existing multi-objective CR approaches still suffer from two crucial limitations. First, previous methods need to aggregate the full candidate list within a single mini-batch to compute the ranking loss. Such aggregation strategy violates extensive data shuffling which has long been proven beneficial for preventing overfitting, and thus degrades the training effectiveness. Second, existing multi-objective methods apply the two inherently conflicting loss functions on a single probabilistic prediction, which results in a sub-optimal trade-off between calibration and ranking. To tackle the two limitations, we propose a Self-Boosted framework for Calibrated Ranking (SBCR).
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spellingShingle A Self-boosted Framework for Calibrated Ranking
Zhang, Shunyu
Liu, Hu
Bao, Wentian
Yu, Enyun
Song, Yang
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Scale-calibrated ranking systems are ubiquitous in real-world applications nowadays, which pursue accurate ranking quality and calibrated probabilistic predictions simultaneously. For instance, in the advertising ranking system, the predicted click-through rate (CTR) is utilized for ranking and required to be calibrated for the downstream cost-per-click ads bidding. Recently, multi-objective based methods have been wildly adopted as a standard approach for Calibrated Ranking, which incorporates the combination of two loss functions: a pointwise loss that focuses on calibrated absolute values and a ranking loss that emphasizes relative orderings. However, when applied to industrial online applications, existing multi-objective CR approaches still suffer from two crucial limitations. First, previous methods need to aggregate the full candidate list within a single mini-batch to compute the ranking loss. Such aggregation strategy violates extensive data shuffling which has long been proven beneficial for preventing overfitting, and thus degrades the training effectiveness. Second, existing multi-objective methods apply the two inherently conflicting loss functions on a single probabilistic prediction, which results in a sub-optimal trade-off between calibration and ranking. To tackle the two limitations, we propose a Self-Boosted framework for Calibrated Ranking (SBCR).
title A Self-boosted Framework for Calibrated Ranking
topic Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08010