Unbiased Learning to Rank:
Counterfactual and Online Approaches

Half-day tutorial at The Web Conference 2020.

Overview

This tutorial is about Unbiased Learning to Rank, a recent research field that aims to learn unbiased user preferences from biased user interactions. We will provide an overview of the two main families of methods in Unbiased Learning to Rank: Counterfactual Learning to Rank (CLTR) and Online Learning to Rank (OLTR) and their underlying theory.

For LTR practitioners our tutorial gives guidance on how the decision between methods should be made. For the field of Information Retrieval (IR) we aim to provide an essential guide on unbiased LTR to understanding and choosing between methodologies.

Materials

A handout of the slides are available here.
You can watch the tutorial here:

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We will address your questions in a follow-up video.

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