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Search and information retrieval

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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

Publication

Auctions and Bid Rigging

R. Preston McAfee, Michael Williams, Kenneth Hendricks

The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics | 2014, Vol 2

Editor(s): Roger D. Blair and D. Daniel Sokol

Publication

Position Auctions with Externalities

Patrick Hummel, R. Preston McAfee

Workshop on Internet and Network Economics WINE ’14 | April 2014

Publication

Display Advertising Auctions with Arbitrage

Ruggiero Cavallo, R. Preston McAfee, Sergei Vassilvitskii

Electronic Commerce | June 2015, Vol 3(3): pp. 15

Publication

Machine learning in an auction environment

Patrick Hummel, R. Preston McAfee

Journal of Machine Learning Research | April 2016, Vol 17(197): pp. 1-37

Publication

Incentivizing Advertiser Networks to Submit Multiple Bids

Patrick Hummel, R. Preston McAfee, Sergei Vassilvitskii

International Journal of Game Theory | January 2016, Vol 45(4): pp. 1031-1052

Publication

When Does Improved Targeting Increase Revenue

Patrick Hummel, R. Preston McAfee

Electronic Commerce | November 2016, Vol 5(1): pp. 4

Publication

Scale Effects in Web Search

Di He, Aadharsh Kannan, Tie-Yan Liu, R. Preston McAfee, Tao Qin, Justin M. Rao

International Conference on Web and Internet Economics – WINE 2017 | November 2017

Video

Microsoft Academic – Darrin’s story

February 15, 2018 | Darrin Eide

Team member Darrin Eide explains how he uses Microsoft Academic to learn about a medical condition that affects his family.

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Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft researchers unlock the black box of network embedding

February 7, 2018 | Kuansan Wang

At the ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2018, my team will introduce research that, for the first time, provides a theoretical explanation of popular methods used to automatically map the structure and…

Podcast

Getting LinkedIn to Data Science with Dr. Igor Perisic

February 7, 2018

Episode 11, February 7, 2018 – Big data is a big deal, and if you follow the popular technical press, you’ll have heard all the metaphors: data is the new oil, the new bacon, the…

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