Directly Optimizing Evaluation Measures in Learning to Rank

Directly Optimizing Evaluation Measures in Learning to Rank

"Experimental results show thatthe methods based on direct optimization of evaluation measure scan always outperform conventional methods of Ranking SVM andRankBoost. However, no significant difference exists among the performances of the direct optimization methods themselves."

In this case, my preference goes to AdaRank for its semplicity and clear understanding of the key intuitions behind it.