Structure-aware Relative Policy Optimization for Ranking
Quick summary
arXiv:2607.25268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ranking is a fundamental component of modern information access systems. Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a flexible framework for directly optimizing coarse-grained feedback and system-level objectives defined over the complete ranking list. However, existing RL-based ranking methods typically treat each sampled permutation as an atomic output and evaluate it primarily through a scalar reward, overlooking the structural relationships among different ranking lists. Consequently, permutations with similar rewards but substantially different
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2607.25268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ranking is a fundamental component of modern information access systems.
- Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a flexible framework for directly optimizing coarse-grained feedback and system-level objectives defined over the complete ranking list.
- However, existing RL-based ranking methods typically treat each sampled permutation as an atomic output and evaluate it primarily through a scalar reward, overlooking the structural relationships among different ranking lists.
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