Every day, millions of customers search for books in various formats (audiobooks, e-books, and physical books) across Amazon and Audible. Traditional keyword autocomplete suggestions, while helpful,...
When a customer clicks on an item in a list of product-search results, it implies that that item is better than those not clicked. “Learning to...
Most modern search applications, ad platforms, and recommender systems share a similar multitier information retrieval (IR) architecture with (at a minimum) a candidate selection or retrieval...
For delivery drivers, finding the doorstep where a package should be dropped off can be surprisingly hard. House numbers can be obscured by foliage, or they...
Bandit problems are problems in which an agent interacting with the environment tries to simultaneously maximize some reward and learn how to maximize that reward. The...
This week, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Thorsten Joachims, a Cornell University professor of computer science...