Title
Rank Aggregation via Low-Rank and Structured-Sparse Decomposition.
Abstract
Rank aggregation, which combines multiple individual rank lists to obtain a better one, is a fundamental technique in various applications such as meta-search and recommendation systems. Most existing rank aggregation methods blindly combine multiple rank lists with possibly considerable noises, which often degrades their performances. In this paper, we propose a new model for robust rank aggregation (RRA) via matrix learning, which recovers a latent rank list from the possibly incomplete and noisy input rank lists. In our model, we construct a pairwise comparison matrix to encode the order information in each input rank list. Based on our observations, each comparison matrix can be naturally decomposed into a shared low-rank matrix, combined with a deviation error matrix which is the sum of a column-sparse matrix and a row-sparse one. The latent rank list can be easily extracted from the learned lowrank matrix. The optimization formulation of RRA has an element-wise multiplication operator to handle missing values, a symmetric constraint on the noise structure, and a factorization trick to restrict the maximum rank of the low-rank matrix. To solve this challenging optimization problem, we propose a novel procedure based on the Augmented Lagrangian Multiplier scheme. We conduct extensive experiments on metasearch and collaborative filtering benchmark datasets. The results show that the proposed RRA has superior performance gain over several state-of-the-art algorithms for rank aggregation. Copyright © 2013, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
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AAAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
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Mathematical optimization,Multiplication operator,Matrix (mathematics),Computer science,Sparse approximation,Low-rank approximation,Augmented Lagrangian method,Mean reciprocal rank,Missing data,Optimization problem
Conference
Volume
Issue
Citations 
null
null
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Pan117919.23
Hanjiang Lai223417.67
Cong Liu358630.47
Yong Tang4419.00
Shuicheng Yan59701359.54