cs.IR 2106.04405

Federated Neural Collaborative Filtering

Proposes FedNCF, extending Neural Collaborative Filtering to federated learning with secure aggregation, achieving comparable accuracy and faster convergence.

Vasileios Perifanis, Pavlos S. Efraimidis

2021-06-03 22
cs.IR 2104.12016

Learning Passage Impacts for Inverted Indexes

DeepImpact leverages semantic impact scores with BERT and DocT5Query to improve first-stage retrieval by 17%, enabling faster and more accurate search.

Antonio Mallia, Omar Khattab, Nicola Tonellotto et al.

2021-04-25 38
cs.IR 2102.09267

Sparse-Interest Network for Sequential Recommendation

Proposes Sparse Interest Network (SINE) for sequential recommendation, enabling adaptive extraction of multiple interest embeddings, significantly improving accuracy.

Qiaoyu Tan, Jianwei Zhang, Jiangchao Yao et al.

2021-02-18 31
cs.IR 2102.07662

Overview of the TREC 2020 deep learning track

BERT-based models achieve NDCG@10 of 0.6934, surpassing traditional methods by 23%, demonstrating deep learning's superiority in large-scale retrieval.

Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz et al.

2021-02-16 40