Evaluation is crucial in Information Retrieval. The Cranfield paradigm allows reproducible system evaluation by fostering the construction of standard and reusable benchmarks. Each benchmark or test collection comprises a set of queries, a collection of documents and a set of relevance judgements. Relevance judgements are often done by humans and thus expensive to obtain. Consequently, relevance judgements are customarily incomplete. Only a subset of the collection, the pool, is judged for relevance. In TREC-like campaigns, the pool is formed by the top retrieved documents supplied by systems participating in a certain evaluation task. With multiple retrieval systems contributing to the pool, an exploration/exploitation trade-off arises naturally. Exploiting effective systems could find more relevant documents, but exploring weaker systems might also be valuable for the overall judgement process. In this paper, we cast document judging as a multi-armed bandit problem. This formal modelling leads to theoretically grounded adjudication strategies that improve over the state of the art. We show that simple instantiations of multi-armed bandit models are superior to all previous adjudication strategies
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Geoffrey De Smet discusses nurse rostering and hospital bed planning using Drools Planner. He outlines implementing hard and soft constraints for employee shift rostering and patient admission scheduling. Calculating the number of possible solutions for scheduling 2750 patients into 310 beds over 84 nights is over 10^6851, vastly larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
This document discusses various topics related to machine learning including recommender systems, search engines, academic papers, and challenges. It also provides biographical information about the author, their work experience including with recommender engines and news recommendations, and their invitation for others to contact them to discuss serious recommenders and search.
This document discusses search quality and optimization. It covers various metrics used to measure search quality like mean average precision and expected reciprocal rank. It also discusses using clickthrough data and implicit feedback to optimize search engines by analyzing query chains, repeated results, and A/B testing with interleaving. The document promotes a service called searchd.co that provides search analytics to help identify problems, test changes safely, and improve the search experience.
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Kafka is used as a "dial tone for data" to ingest large amounts of data at HomeAway. An experiment using Kafka and Camus to ingest over 1TB of data per day from various systems and applications was successful. It allowed for various use cases like SLA reporting, fraud detection, search and clickstream analysis, and traveler segmentation. Key lessons included the importance of the schema registry for decoupling producers and consumers, and making stream processing easy through tools like Samza. The presentation concludes that Kafka allows building systems of engagement and intelligence on top of ingested data.
The document provides instructions for configuring a question type classifier on IBM Bluemix. It describes 15 common question types, how to prepare question data by formatting it as text-class pairs in a CSV file, and a 5-step process for deploying and training a classifier on Bluemix: 1) Access the service, 2) Add the service, 3) Access the toolkit, 4) Deploy the app, 5) View and use the trained classifier. Optional steps describe renaming the service, adding routes, and Java code for classification.
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Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a statistical technique used to compare the means of three or more groups. It compares the variance between groups with the variance within groups to determine if the population means are significantly different. The key assumptions of ANOVA are independence, normality, and homogeneity of variances. A one-way ANOVA involves one independent variable with multiple levels or groups, and compares the group means to the overall mean to calculate an F-ratio statistic. If the F-ratio exceeds a critical value, then the null hypothesis that the group means are equal can be rejected.
2010 04-20 san diego bootcamp - drools planner - use casesGeoffrey De Smet
Geoffrey De Smet discusses nurse rostering and hospital bed planning using Drools Planner. He outlines implementing hard and soft constraints for employee shift rostering and patient admission scheduling. Calculating the number of possible solutions for scheduling 2750 patients into 310 beds over 84 nights is over 10^6851, vastly larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
This document discusses various topics related to machine learning including recommender systems, search engines, academic papers, and challenges. It also provides biographical information about the author, their work experience including with recommender engines and news recommendations, and their invitation for others to contact them to discuss serious recommenders and search.
This document discusses search quality and optimization. It covers various metrics used to measure search quality like mean average precision and expected reciprocal rank. It also discusses using clickthrough data and implicit feedback to optimize search engines by analyzing query chains, repeated results, and A/B testing with interleaving. The document promotes a service called searchd.co that provides search analytics to help identify problems, test changes safely, and improve the search experience.
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Kafka is used as a "dial tone for data" to ingest large amounts of data at HomeAway. An experiment using Kafka and Camus to ingest over 1TB of data per day from various systems and applications was successful. It allowed for various use cases like SLA reporting, fraud detection, search and clickstream analysis, and traveler segmentation. Key lessons included the importance of the schema registry for decoupling producers and consumers, and making stream processing easy through tools like Samza. The presentation concludes that Kafka allows building systems of engagement and intelligence on top of ingested data.
The document provides instructions for configuring a question type classifier on IBM Bluemix. It describes 15 common question types, how to prepare question data by formatting it as text-class pairs in a CSV file, and a 5-step process for deploying and training a classifier on Bluemix: 1) Access the service, 2) Add the service, 3) Access the toolkit, 4) Deploy the app, 5) View and use the trained classifier. Optional steps describe renaming the service, adding routes, and Java code for classification.
The document provides information about fuzzy string matching techniques such as partial matching, phonetic encodings, edit distance, and indexing strategies. It discusses algorithms like Soundex, NYSIIS, Double Metaphone, and Levenshtein distance. Examples are given to illustrate how these techniques can be used to find similar strings and measure the similarity between strings.
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Main Task Submit the Following 1. Calculate the sample size.docxinfantsuk
Main Task: Submit the Following
1.
Calculate the sample size needed given these factors:
· one-tailed t-test with two independent groups of equal size
· small effect size (see Piasta, S.B., & Justice, L.M., 2010)
· alpha =.05
· beta = .2
· Assume that the result is a sample size beyond what you can obtain. Use the compromise function to compute alpha and beta for a sample half the size. Indicate the resulting alpha and beta. Present an argument that your study is worth doing with the smaller sample.
2.
· Calculate the sample size needed given these factors:
· ANOVA (fixed effects, omnibus, one-way)
· small effect size
· alpha =.05
· beta = .2
· 3 groups
· Assume that the result is a sample size beyond what you can obtain. Use the compromise function to compute alpha and beta for a sample approximately half the size. Give your rationale for your selected beta/alpha ratio. Indicate the resulting alpha and beta. Give an argument that your study is worth doing with the smaller sample.
3. In a few sentences, describe two designs that can address your research question. The designs must involve two different statistical analyses. For each design, specify and justify each of the four factors and calculate the estimated sample size youll need. Give reasons for any parameters you need to specify for G*Power.
Include peer-reviewed journal articles as needed to support your responses to Part I.
Support your paper with a minimum of 5 resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 5 pages not including title and reference pages
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ch_5 Game playing Min max and Alpha Beta pruning.pptSanGeet25
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Okay, here are the steps to convert each score to a z-score:
For history test:
Z = (X - Mean) / Standard Deviation
Z = (78 - 79) / 6
Z = -0.167
For math test:
Z = (X - Mean) / Standard Deviation
Z = (82 - 84) / 5
Z = 0.8
So the z-score for the history test is -0.167 and the z-score for the math test is 0.8.
Probability is a numerical measure of how likely an event is to occur. It is used in business to quantify uncertainty and make predictions. Some common applications in business include predicting sales based on price changes, estimating increases in productivity from new methods, and assessing the likelihood of investments being profitable. Probability is calculated on a scale of 0 to 1, with values closer to 1 indicating an event is more certain or likely to occur.
This document describes genetic algorithms and provides an example of how one works. It defines genetic algorithms as evolutionary algorithms that use techniques inspired by evolutionary biology like inheritance, mutation, selection, and crossover. The document then outlines the typical components of a genetic algorithm, including initialization of a random population, fitness evaluation, selection of parents, crossover and mutation to produce offspring, and iteration until a termination condition is met. It concludes by showing pseudocode for a genetic algorithm to solve the onemax problem and output from running the algorithm.
The document contains statistics lab report scores for 8 students who spent varying amounts of time preparing. It includes the regression equation relating hours spent to score and predicts a score for someone who spent 1 hour. It also defines the correlation coefficient and explains it measures the strength of the linear relationship between two variables.
The document provides guidance on using statistical functions on the TI-83/84 calculator. It discusses how to input data into lists, calculate descriptive statistics, create graphs, and perform probability, confidence interval, and hypothesis tests. For descriptive statistics, the user selects STAT > CALC > 1-Var Stats and inputs the appropriate data list. Graphs are made by selecting 2nd STAT PLOT and choosing the desired plot type and lists. Probability, interval, and hypothesis tests are accessed through the TESTS and TESTS menus and require selecting the appropriate function and inputting parameters like sample sizes, means, and standard deviations.
Computational Biology, Part 4 Protein Coding Regionsbutest
The document discusses different machine learning approaches for supervised classification and sequence analysis. It describes several classification algorithms like k-nearest neighbors, decision trees, linear discriminants, and support vector machines. It also discusses evaluating classifiers using cross-validation and confusion matrices. For sequence analysis, it covers using position-specific scoring matrices, hidden Markov models, cobbling, and family pairwise search to identify new members of protein families. It compares the performance of these different machine learning methods on sequence analysis tasks.
In this tutorial, we will learn the the following topics -
+ Voting Classifiers
+ Bagging and Pasting
+ Random Patches and Random Subspaces
+ Random Forests
+ Boosting
+ Stacking
This document summarizes four parallel search algorithms - Shared Transposition Tables, Root Splitting, Young Brothers Wait (YBW), and Dynamic Tree Splitting (DTS) - that were implemented in the computer chess program Prophet to parallelize alpha-beta search trees on symmetric multiprocessor machines. For each algorithm, the document describes the algorithm, its implementation in Prophet, and empirical performance results from Prophet. It concludes by discussing potential future work, including ways to improve split point selection for DTS and explore parallelization beyond SMP architectures.
1) The document provides instructions for students to conduct a coin toss experiment to demonstrate probability and use a chi-square test to analyze the results. It explains that genetics involves random chance processes that can be modeled with coin tosses.
2) Students will toss two coins 100 times in groups and record head/head, head/tail, and tail/tail outcomes. They will then use a chi-square test to compare observed results to expected results based on probability laws.
3) The chi-square test allows students to determine if any differences between observed and expected results are statistically significant, which could mean factors other than chance are influencing the outcomes. This analysis method is important for studying inheritance patterns in genetics.
This document discusses FASTA and BLAST algorithms for database searching to find similar sequences to a query. It explains that FASTA uses a "hit and extend" method to search for short identical matches, while BLAST searches for words above a threshold score rather than exact matches. BLAST is generally faster than FASTA and Smith-Waterman as it uses heuristics. The document provides details on how BLAST works including compiling a word list, searching the database for hits, and extending hits into alignments.
The document discusses different types of adversarial search algorithms. It describes min-max algorithm and alpha-beta pruning. Min-max algorithm searches through the game tree recursively to find the optimal move assuming the opponent plays optimally. Alpha-beta pruning improves on min-max by pruning parts of the tree that cannot contain better moves based on the alpha and beta values being passed down the tree.
This document describes how to perform a chi-square test to determine if two genes are independently assorting or linked. It explains that for a two-point testcross of a heterozygote individual, you expect a 25% ratio for each of the four possible offspring genotypes if the genes are independent. The chi-square test compares observed vs. expected offspring ratios. It notes that the standard test assumes equal segregation of alleles, which may not always be true.
Data Analytics Project_Eun Seuk Choi (Eric)Eric Choi
This document describes a linear regression analysis conducted to predict NBA players' wins contributed (WINS) using minutes played (M), games played (GP), offensive rating (ORPM), and defensive rating (DRPM). The final model was WINS~GP+M+ORPM+DRPM, which had an R^2 of 0.8575. Cross-validation showed the model predicted out-of-sample data well. The analysis found ORPM was most predictive of WINS based on its confidence interval not containing 0.
1. The document discusses simulations involving coin flips, basketball free throws, and randomly selecting students. It prompts the reader to identify the component, trial, response variable, and statistic for different simulation scenarios.
2. Examples of simulations include flipping a coin 100 times to determine if it is biased, shooting free throws until a miss to measure success rate, and randomly selecting 3 students from a class.
3. The reader is asked to consider how the simulations would change based on the probability of success, number of trials, and structure of dependent vs independent events.
The document defines key concepts in reinforcement learning including:
- Multi-armed bandit problems where an agent interacts with multiple options to receive rewards from unknown distributions
- Regret which measures the difference between an agent's actual reward and the reward it could have received by always selecting the best option
- The UCB algorithm which balances exploration and exploitation by selecting the option with the highest upper confidence bound
- The KL-UCB algorithm which is an extension of UCB using the Kullback-Leibler divergence to determine confidence intervals
- Thompson sampling which is a Bayesian approach that maintains posterior distributions over rewards and samples from them to select options
Solutions to Statistical infeence by George CasellaJamesR0510
This document outlines the course content for STAT 6720 Mathematical Statistics II taught at Utah State University. It covers several topics including limit theorems, sample moments, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and nonparametric inference. The course follows the textbook Statistical Inference by Casella and Berger and introduces different modes of convergence for random variables as sequences including convergence in distribution, weak convergence of distributions, and cases where convergence does not occur. It also provides acknowledgments and lists additional references.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
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Main Task: Submit the Following
1.
Calculate the sample size needed given these factors:
· one-tailed t-test with two independent groups of equal size
· small effect size (see Piasta, S.B., & Justice, L.M., 2010)
· alpha =.05
· beta = .2
· Assume that the result is a sample size beyond what you can obtain. Use the compromise function to compute alpha and beta for a sample half the size. Indicate the resulting alpha and beta. Present an argument that your study is worth doing with the smaller sample.
2.
· Calculate the sample size needed given these factors:
· ANOVA (fixed effects, omnibus, one-way)
· small effect size
· alpha =.05
· beta = .2
· 3 groups
· Assume that the result is a sample size beyond what you can obtain. Use the compromise function to compute alpha and beta for a sample approximately half the size. Give your rationale for your selected beta/alpha ratio. Indicate the resulting alpha and beta. Give an argument that your study is worth doing with the smaller sample.
3. In a few sentences, describe two designs that can address your research question. The designs must involve two different statistical analyses. For each design, specify and justify each of the four factors and calculate the estimated sample size youll need. Give reasons for any parameters you need to specify for G*Power.
Include peer-reviewed journal articles as needed to support your responses to Part I.
Support your paper with a minimum of 5 resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 5 pages not including title and reference pages
ExamB/ExamB.php
<?php
// get user file
$filename = $_REQUEST['filepath'] ;
$validate = true ;
$x = array();
$y = array();
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$Y_avg = $Y_sum = 0 ;
if (!file_exists($filename)){
echo "Please correct file path." ;
}
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// >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HERER <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< //
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Okay, here are the steps to convert each score to a z-score:
For history test:
Z = (X - Mean) / Standard Deviation
Z = (78 - 79) / 6
Z = -0.167
For math test:
Z = (X - Mean) / Standard Deviation
Z = (82 - 84) / 5
Z = 0.8
So the z-score for the history test is -0.167 and the z-score for the math test is 0.8.
Probability is a numerical measure of how likely an event is to occur. It is used in business to quantify uncertainty and make predictions. Some common applications in business include predicting sales based on price changes, estimating increases in productivity from new methods, and assessing the likelihood of investments being profitable. Probability is calculated on a scale of 0 to 1, with values closer to 1 indicating an event is more certain or likely to occur.
This document describes genetic algorithms and provides an example of how one works. It defines genetic algorithms as evolutionary algorithms that use techniques inspired by evolutionary biology like inheritance, mutation, selection, and crossover. The document then outlines the typical components of a genetic algorithm, including initialization of a random population, fitness evaluation, selection of parents, crossover and mutation to produce offspring, and iteration until a termination condition is met. It concludes by showing pseudocode for a genetic algorithm to solve the onemax problem and output from running the algorithm.
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The document provides guidance on using statistical functions on the TI-83/84 calculator. It discusses how to input data into lists, calculate descriptive statistics, create graphs, and perform probability, confidence interval, and hypothesis tests. For descriptive statistics, the user selects STAT > CALC > 1-Var Stats and inputs the appropriate data list. Graphs are made by selecting 2nd STAT PLOT and choosing the desired plot type and lists. Probability, interval, and hypothesis tests are accessed through the TESTS and TESTS menus and require selecting the appropriate function and inputting parameters like sample sizes, means, and standard deviations.
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In this tutorial, we will learn the the following topics -
+ Voting Classifiers
+ Bagging and Pasting
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2) Students will toss two coins 100 times in groups and record head/head, head/tail, and tail/tail outcomes. They will then use a chi-square test to compare observed results to expected results based on probability laws.
3) The chi-square test allows students to determine if any differences between observed and expected results are statistically significant, which could mean factors other than chance are influencing the outcomes. This analysis method is important for studying inheritance patterns in genetics.
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2. Examples of simulations include flipping a coin 100 times to determine if it is biased, shooting free throws until a miss to measure success rate, and randomly selecting 3 students from a class.
3. The reader is asked to consider how the simulations would change based on the probability of success, number of trials, and structure of dependent vs independent events.
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- Regret which measures the difference between an agent's actual reward and the reward it could have received by always selecting the best option
- The UCB algorithm which balances exploration and exploitation by selecting the option with the highest upper confidence bound
- The KL-UCB algorithm which is an extension of UCB using the Kullback-Leibler divergence to determine confidence intervals
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Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
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field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
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Feeling Lucky? Multi-armed Bandits for Ordering Judgements in Pooling-based Evaluation.
1. Feeling Lucky? Multi-armed bandits for Ordering Judgements
in Pooling-based Evaluation
David E. Losada
Javier Parapar, Álvaro Barreiro
ACM SAC, 2016
11. relevance assessments are incomplete
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human assessments
14. finding relevant docs is the key
Most productive use of assessors' time
is spent on judging relevant docs
(Sanderson & Zobel, 2005)
15. Effective adjudication methods
Give priority to pooled docs that are
potentially relevant
Can signifcantly reduce the num. of
judgements required to identify a given
num. of relevant docs
But most existing methods are adhoc...
16. Our main idea...
Cast doc adjudication as a
reinforcement learning problem
Doc judging is an iterative process where
we learn as judgements come in
17. Doc adjudication as a reinforcement learning problem
Initially we know nothing about the quality of the runs
? ? ? ?...
As judgements
come in...
And we can adapt and allocate more docs for judgement from
the most promising runs
25. exploration vs exploitation
exploits current knowledge
spends no time sampling inferior actions
maximizes expected reward
on the next action
explores uncertain actions
gets more info about expected payofs
may produce greater total reward
in the long run
allocation methods: choose next action (play) based on past plays and obtained rewards
implement diferent ways to trade between exploration and exploitation
26. Multi-armed bandits for ordering judgements
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machines = runs
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play a machine = select a run and get the next (unjudged) doc
1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
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(binary) reward = relevance/non-relevance of the selected doc
27. Allocation methods tested
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random ϵn
-greedy
with prob 1-ϵ plays the machine
with the highest avg reward
with prob ϵ plays a
random machine
prob of exploration (ϵ) decreases
with the num. of plays
Upper Confdence Bound
(UCB)
computes upper confdence
bounds for avg rewards
conf. intervals get narrower
with the number of plays
selects the machine with the
highest optimistic estimate
28. Allocation methods tested: Bayesian bandits
prior probabilities of giving a relevant doc: Uniform(0,1) ( or, equivalently, Beta(α,β), α,β=1 )
U(0,1) U(0,1) U(0,1) U(0,1)
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evidence (O ∈ {0,1}) is Bernoulli (or, equivalently, Binomial(1,p) )
posterior probabilities of giving a relevant doc: Beta(α+O, β+1-O) (Beta: conjugate prior
for Binomial)
36. Allocation methods tested: Bayesian bandits
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we iteratively update our estimations using Bayes:
two strategies to select the next machine:
Bayesian Learning Automaton (BLA): draws a sample from each the posterior distribution
and selects the machine yieding the highest sample
MaxMean (MM): selects the machine with the highest expectation of the posterior distribution
37. test different document adjudication strategies in
terms of how quickly they find the relevant
docs in the pool
experiments
# rel docs found at diff. number of
judgements performed
41. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. WSJ17
3. AP567
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1. FT941
2. WSJ13
3. WSJ19
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1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
starts with uniform priorities for all runs (e.g. max priority=100)
selects a random run (from those with max priority)
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2. AP881
3. FT967
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42. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. WSJ17
3. AP567
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2. WSJ13
3. WSJ19
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2. CR93E
3. AP111
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
starts with uniform priorities for all runs (e.g. max priority=100)
selects a random run (from those with max priority)
1. ZF207
2. AP881
3. FT967
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100 100 100 100
43. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
extracts & judges docs from the selected run
stays in the run until a non-rel doc is found
100
44. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
extracts & judges docs from the selected run
stays in the run until a non-rel doc is found
100
WSJ13
45. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
extracts & judges docs from the selected run
stays in the run until a non-rel doc is found
100
WSJ13, CR93E
46. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
extracts & judges docs from the selected run
stays in the run until a non-rel doc is found
100
WSJ13, CR93E, AP111
47. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
extracts & judges docs from the selected run
stays in the run until a non-rel doc is found
when a non-rel doc is found, priority is decreased
100 99
WSJ13, CR93E, AP111
48. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. WSJ17
3. AP567
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1. FT941
2. WSJ13
3. WSJ19
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1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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MoveToFront (MTF) (Cormack et al 98)
and we jump again to another max priority run
1. ZF207
2. AP881
3. FT967
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100 100 99 100
49. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. WSJ17
3. AP567
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1. FT941
2. WSJ13
3. WSJ19
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1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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Moffat et al.'s method (A) (Moffat et al 2007)
based on rank-biased precision (RBP)
sums a rank-dependent score for each doc
1. ZF207
2. AP881
3. FT967
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score
0.20
0.16
0.13
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50. experiments: baselines
1. WSJ13
2. WSJ17
3. AP567
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1. FT941
2. WSJ13
3. WSJ19
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1. WSJ13
2. CR93E
3. AP111
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Moffat et al.'s method (A) (Moffat et al 2007)
based on rank-biased precision (RBP)
sums a rank-dependent score for each doc
1. ZF207
2. AP881
3. FT967
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score
0.20
0.16
0.13
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all docs are ranked by decreasing accummulated score
and the ranked list defines the order in which docs are judged
WSJ13: 0.20+0.16+0.20+...
51. experiments: baselines
Moffat et al.'s method (B) (Moffat et al 2007)
evolution over A's method
considers not only the rank-dependent doc's
contributions but also the runs' residuals
promotes the selection of docs from runs with many
unjudged docs
Moffat et al.'s method (C) (Moffat et al 2007)
evolution over B's method
considers not only the rank-dependent doc's and the residuals
promotes the selection of docs from effective runs
54. experiments: MTF vs bandit-based models
Random: weakest approach
BLA/UCB/ϵn
-greedy are suboptimal
(sophisticated exploration/exploitation trading
not needed)
MTF and MM: best performing methods
55. improved bandit-based models
MTF: forgets quickly about past rewards
(a single non-relevance doc triggers a jump)
non-stationary
bandit-based
solutions:
not all historical
rewards count the
same
MM-NS and BLA-NS
non-stationary
variants of MM and
BLA
56. stationary bandits
Beta( , ), , =1α β α β
rel docs add 1 to α
non-rel docs add 1 to β
(after n iterations)
Beta(αn
,βn
)
αn
=1+jrels
βn
=1+jrets
– jrels
jrels
: # judged relevant docs (retrieved by s)
jrets
: # judged docs (retrieved by s)
all judged docs count the same
non-stationary bandits
Beta( , ), , =1α β α β
jrels
= rate*jrels
+ reld
jrets
= rate*jrets
+ 1
(after n iterations)
Beta(αn
,βn
)
αn
=1+jrels
βn
=1+jrets
– jrels
rate>1: weights more early relevant docs
rate<1: weights more late relevant docs
rate=0: only the last judged doc counts
(BLA-NS, MM-NS)
rate=1: stationary version
58. conclusions
multi-arm bandits: formal & effective framework for
doc adjudication in a pooling-based evaluation
it's not good to increasingly reduce exploration
(UCB, ϵn
-greedy)
it's good to react quickly to non-relevant docs
(non-stationary variants)
60. reproduce our experiments & test new ideas!
http://tec.citius.usc.es/ir/code/pooling_bandits.html
(our R code, instructions, etc)
61. David E. Losada
Javier Parapar, Álvaro Barreiro
Feeling Lucky? Multi-armed bandits for Ordering Judgements
in Pooling-based Evaluation
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This work was supported by the
“Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad”
of the Goverment of Spain and
FEDER Funds under
research projects
TIN2012-33867 and TIN2015-64282-R.