ML for Ranking System in Search System: Comprehensive Overview

Learning to Rank

What Does Search Ranking Look Like?

The simplest Search System

This is an overview or simplified figure of what a typical search system might look like. First, a user provides a query, and a candidate set is built by some light and fast search methods, such as BM25, since the first layer of a search system might be dealing with millions of products which is a computationally costly task for DL. Next, top-N candidates a ‘ranked’ using Deep Learning techniques to refine the order of candidates. Ranking is a huge research area in the field and it might even consist of multiple stages of ranking, where each stage might have its own purpose regarding sorting the candidates.

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What Is Reranking?

ML Ranking

In other words, the Ranking model (also ML model) is a mapping function that re-ranks or sorts a given list of…