Efficient Regularized Least-Squares Algorithms for Conditional Ranking on Relational Data

In domains like bioinformatics, information retrieval and social network analysis, one can find learning tasks where the goal consists of inferring a ranking of objects, conditioned on a particular target object. We present a general kernel framework for learning conditional rankings from various types of relational data, where rankings can be conditioned on unseen data objects. We propose efficient algorithms for conditional ranking by optimizing squared regression and ranking loss functions. We show theoretically, that learning with the ranking loss is likely to generalize better than with the regression loss. Further, we prove that symmetry or reciprocity properties of relations can be efficiently enforced in the learned models. Experiments on synthetic and real-world data illustrate that the proposed methods deliver state-of-the-art performance in terms of predictive power and computational efficiency. Moreover, we also show empirically that incorporating symmetry or reciprocity properties can improve the generalization performance

Transductive Ranking on Graphs

In ranking, one is given examples of order relationships among objects, and the goal is to learn from these examples a real-valued ranking function that induces a ranking or ordering over the object space. We consider the problem of learning such a ranking function in a transductive, graph-based setting, where the object space is finite and is represented as a graph in which vertices correspond to objects and edges encode similarities between objects. Building on recent developments in regularization theory for graphs and corresponding Laplacian-based learning methods, we develop an algorithmic framework for learning ranking functions on graphs. We derive generalization bounds for our algorithms in transductive models similar to those used to study other transductive learning problems, and give experimental evidence of the potential benefits of our framework

Прикладные аспекты использования алгоритмов ранжирования для ориентированных взвешенных графов(на примере графов социальных сетей)

The article deals with the applied aspects of the preliminary vertices ranking for oriented weighted graph. In this paper, the authors observed the widespread use of this technique in developing heuristic discrete optimization algorithms. The ranking problem is directly related to the problem of social networks centrality and large real world data sets but as shown in the article ranking is explicitly or implicitly used in the development of algorithms as the initial stage of obtaining a solution for solving applied problems. Examples of such ranking application are given. The examples demonstrate the increase of efficiency for solving some optimization applied problems, which are widely used in mathematical methods of optimization, decision-making not only from the theoretical development point of view but also their applications. The article describes the structure of the first phase of the computational experiment, which is associated with the procedure of obtaining test data sets. The obtained data are presented by weighted graphs that correspond to several groups of the social network Vkontakte with the number of participants in the range from 9000 to 24 thousand. It is shown that the structural characteristics of the obtained graphs differ significantly in the number of connectivity components. Characteristics of centrality (degree's sequences), as shown, have exponential distribution. The main attention is given to the analysis of three approaches to graph vertices ranking. We propose analysis and comparison of the obtained set of ranks by the nature of their distribution. The definition of convergence for graph vertex ranking algorithms is introduced and the differences of their use in considering the data of large dimension and the need to build a solution in the presence of local changes are discussed.Рассматриваются прикладные аспекты использования предварительного ранжирования вершин ориентированного взвешенного графа. Особое внимание уделяется широкому использованию такого приема в разработке эвристических алгоритмов дискретной оптимизации. Задача ранжирования имеет непосредственное отношение к проблеме определения центральности в социальных сетях, обработке больших массивов данных реального мира, но как показано в статье, явно или косвенно используется при разработке алгоритмов решения прикладных задач в качестве начального этапа построения решения. Приводятся примеры использования предварительного ранжирования, в которых продемонстрировано повышение эффективности решения некоторых прикладных задач, имеющих широкое применение в математических методах оптимизации. Дано описание структуры первой фазы вычислительного эксперимента, которая связана с получением тестовых наборов данных. Полученные данные представлены взвешенными графами, которые соответствуют нескольким группам социальной сети ВКонтакте с числом вершин в диапазоне от 9000 до 24 тысяч участников. Показано, что структурные характеристики полученных графов по числу компонент связности существенно различаются. Продемонстрированы некоторые характеристики центральности (распределения степенных последовательностей), которые имеют экспоненциальный характер. Основное внимание уделяется анализу трех алгоритмов построения иерархии ранжирования вершин графов, предлагаются новые подходы к вычислению рангов вершин с использованием информации об активности пользователей в социальных сетях. Проводится сравнение распределений полученных совокупностей рангов. Вводится понятие сходимости алгоритмов ранжирования вершин графов, а также обсуждаются различия их использования при рассмотрении данных большой размерности и необходимости построения решения в случае учета только локальных изменений

Multiobjective e-commerce recommendations based on hypergraph ranking

© 2018 Recommender systems are emerging in e-commerce as important promotion tools to assist customers to discover potentially interesting items. Currently, most of these are single-objective and search for items that fit the overall preference of a particular user. In real applications, such as restaurant recommendations, however, users often have multiple objectives such as group preferences and restaurant ambiance. This paper highlights the need for multi-objective recommendations and provides a solution using hypergraph ranking. A general User–Item–Attribute–Context data model is proposed to summarize different information resources and high-order relationships for the construction of a multipartite hypergraph. This study develops an improved balanced hypergraph ranking method to rank different types of objects in hypergraph data. An overall framework is then proposed as a guideline for the implementation of multi-objective recommender systems. Empirical experiments are conducted with the dataset from a review site Yelp.com, and the outcomes demonstrate that the proposed model performs very well for multi-objective recommendations. The experiments also demonstrate that this framework is still compatible for traditional single-objective recommendations and can improve accuracy significantly. In conclusion, the proposed multi-objective recommendation framework is able to handle complex and changing demands for e-commerce customers