albaltas / learning_to_rank

UCL COMPGI15 group assignment - Group 6 - 2016/2017

Information Retrieval and Data Mining

This repository contains the source code of UCL's COMPGI15: Information Retrieval and Data Mining Group Assignment (2016/2017).

Group 6

• Simon Stiebellehner
• Dimitri Visnadi
• Andreas Gompos
• Alexandros Baltas

Requirements

This project developed using Python 3.5. A list of main software dependencies follows:

• RankLib
• scikit-learn
• SciPy
• TensorFlow
• Keras
• XGBoost
• Hyperopt
• Scikit-optimize
• Pandas
• NumPy

Dataset

The dataset that was used for the project is called MSLR-WEB10K. This work contains scripts that tune ranking algorithms implemented in RankLib, and various custom models. The dataset can be used as-is for the RankLib implementations, whereas custom models require a csv format. In order to transform the data from txt to the required csv format, the script located in src/pre_processing/cleaning_script.py can be used.

Models

This repository contains various custom models (both from scratch and built on top of basic ML packages) for the ranking task. They can be found in the src/models directory. The different models included in the directory are the following:

• adaboost: Custom implementation of AdaBoost.
• adarank: Tuning script of RankLib's AdaRank.
• ensemble: Custom implementaion of an Ensemble Model.
• random forest: Custom implementation of Random Forest classifier (implementation in ensemble file as part of ensemble).
• lambaMART: Tuning script of RankLib's LamdaMART.
• rankNet: Tuning script of RankLib's RankNet.
• rankBoost: Tuning script of RankLib's RankBoost.
• ranking_svm: Custom implementation of a Ranking SVM.
• rnn: Custom implementaion of an RNN classifier.
• svm: Custom implementaion of an SVM classifier
• tensorflow_logistic_regression: Custom implementaion of a Logistic Regression classifier.
• xgboost_&_neural_network: Custom implementations of an XGBoost powered classifier and a deep neural network classifier.

Evaluation metrics

Implementations of various evaluation metrics can be found in src/util.py. This file contains the following metrics:

• DCG@K
• NDCG@K
• ERR@K
• MAP
• Precision
• Recall
• F1-Score

Miscellaneous

A statistical comparison of the different Folds of the dataset can be found in src/pre-processing/dataset_comparison.ipynb. A significance test of our results can be found in src/post-processing/significance_test.py. A script that collected our tuning results, and produce csv reports can be found in src/post-processing/results_crawler.py.