Hi Rishabh,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>I wanted to update you regarding the project. Hopefully by tonight I will share with you the patch which incorporates refactoring in xapian-letor (insteadof xapian-core/letor). In the meanwhile I had discussed with Gaurav about the evaluation framework and he mentioned that Terrier(which is in JAVA) is considered good, so I went through its features and ead Andy's existing code for Xapian's evaluation which Olly shared yesterday.</div>
</blockquote><div><br>Sounds good. It makes sense that you and Gaurav share the same evaluation framework so that at the end we do not end up with two different evaluation modules.<br><br>Of course, in our case the input to the evaluation module would be Letor::Ranklist. So, if you overload the method like evaluate() which returns the NDCG@k or MAP supplying a Letor::Ranklist (in our case) and Xapian::MSet (in Gaurav's case). You can coordinate among yourselves. Basically we need to use it a lot. While training, we optimise a loss function and validate the model using the same evaluation module.<br>
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<div><br></div><div>Also regarding Deep Learning I went through some a couple of papers on finding the structure of the deep network and will soon update the Notes section/blog with the details.</div></blockquote><div><br>
Great. Btw did you have look at the Matlab/Octave code written by Geoffrey Hinton that is used in the Science paper. That's very informative and understandable. Recently I played with it in some experiments and its quite easy to follow. <br>
<br>Currently I am in Istanbul attending a conference so this week you might not find me much around but most of the days I will try to answer e-mails in the night. <br><br>Parth.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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