An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings | Information Retrieval Research

Published at #IRRJ: "An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings" by Massimo Melucci. #InformationRetrieval, #GroupFairness, #ProbabilityRankingPrinciple, #Eigensystem

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23480

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... anyway, i'm sure there's nothing new in this idea, but the point of it was to address a related question: suppose that the eigensystem of the (square matrix) A is known, and then you are given a related matrix B = A + E, where E represents some type of random noise. Can a simple relationship […]