AI engineering glossary · Time series recsys

What is listwise ranking?

Listwise ranking: A learning-to-rank approach that defines the loss over a whole ordered list, aligning training more closely with list-based metrics such as NDCG. It is more complex, since sorting is not differentiable.

Level: advancedTopic: Time series recsys

Listwise ranking: an example

Optimise a smooth surrogate of NDCG computed over all 20 results for a query.

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Listwise ranking is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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