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Exploiting CPU SIMD Extensions to Speed-up Document Scoring with Tree Ensembles

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Claudio Lucchese,

Franco Maria Nardini,

Salvatore Orlando,

Raffaele Perego,

Nicola Tonellotto,

Rossano VenturiniAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Pages 833 - 836

https://doi.org/10.1145/2911451.2914758

Published: 07 July 2016 Publication History

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Scoring documents with learning-to-rank (LtR) models based on large ensembles of regression trees is currently deemed one of the best solutions to effectively rank query results to be returned by large scale Information Retrieval systems. This paper investigates the opportunities given by SIMD capabilities of modern CPUs to the end of efficiently evaluating regression trees ensembles. We propose V-QuickScorer (vQS), which exploits SIMD extensions to vectorize the document scoring, i.e., to perform the ensemble traversal by evaluating multiple documents simultaneously. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of vQS against the state of the art on three publicly available datasets. Experiments show that vQS provides speed-ups up to a factor of 3.2x.

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Exploiting CPU SIMD Extensions to Speed-up Document Scoring with Tree Ensembles
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning
    1. Machine learning algorithms
      1. Ensemble methods
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval models and ranking
      1. Learning to rank

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SIGIR '16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

July 2016

1296 pages

ISBN:9781450340694

DOI:10.1145/2911451

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Raffaele Perego
ISTI-CNR, Italy
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Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
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Northeastern University, US
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Ian Ruthven
University of Strathclyde, UK
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Justin Zobel
University of Melbourne, Australia

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