Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...
Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (GBRT) are the current state-of-the-art learning paradigm for machine learned websearch ranking — a domain notorious for very large data sets. ...
Stephen Tyree, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Kunal Agrawal...
Abstract. The PageRank algorithm demonstrates the significance of the computation of document ranking of general importance or authority in Web information retrieval. However, doi...
As Cloud Computing becomes prevalent, sensitive information are being increasingly centralized into the cloud. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data has to be encrypte...
Link analysis is a critical component of current Internet search engines' results ranking software, which determines the ordering of query results returned to the user. The o...