Fusion Ordering Model for Search Result Ranking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current search engines face challenges in balancing multiple user requirements and optimizing search ordering results to meet traffic and income goals, leading to suboptimal user experience and monetization efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A fusion ordering model is trained using prediction scores from candidate search results, with feedback information collected and updated through a combined function, to adaptively optimize search result ordering, balancing traffic and income targets.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a search engine uses traditional ordering methods to balance user requirements and monetization goals, then the system structure remains simple, but the ordering results become suboptimal and fail to meet traffic and income goals

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonetization efficiencyVSAvoidmodel complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the ordering problem into multiple independent target models (e.g., traffic model, income model, user experience model), each optimizing for a specific goal. These segmented models then feed into a fusion ordering model that combines their outputs, allowing the system to achieve complex multi-objective optimization without creating an monolithic complex model structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges multiple prediction scores from different target models into a unified fusion ordering result. By combining the outputs of specialized models (traffic, income, user experience) into a single fused ordering, the system achieves comprehensive optimization across multiple goals while maintaining the simplicity of individual component models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the search engine uses static ordering models, then the model structure remains simple, but the system cannot adapt to changing user interactions and preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user interactionsVSAvoidtraining system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where actual user interaction data (clicks, dwell time, conversions) is collected and used to retrain and update the target models and fusion ordering model. This closed-loop feedback system enables the models to continuously adapt to changing user preferences and behaviors, transforming a static system into a dynamic adaptive one.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from static ordering models to dynamic models that can adapt their parameters and structures based on real-world performance. Through iterative training with feedback data, the models evolve to reflect current user behaviors and preferences, enabling the system to dynamically adjust to changing conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If the search engine optimizes for multiple targets simultaneously using traditional methods, then the system attempts to meet multiple goals, but the ordering results become suboptimal and fail to balance traffic and income effectively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraffic and income optimizationVSAvoidordering precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the multi-target optimization problem into separate single-target optimization subproblems. Each target model (traffic, income, user experience) is trained to optimize its specific goal independently, achieving high precision for each individual target. The fusion ordering model then combines these specialized optimizations to achieve overall multi-target optimization with maintained precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the optimization parameters by training separate models for different targets rather than attempting to optimize all targets simultaneously with a single model. This parameter separation allows each model to focus on its specific optimization goal, improving the precision of ordering results for each target while achieving comprehensive multi-target optimization through fusion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11782999B2Method for training fusion ordering model, search ordering method, electronic device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2023.10.10 BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for training a fusion ordering model, a search ordering method, an electronic device and a storage medium, and related to the technical field of artificial intelligence such as deep learning and the like are provided. The method includes: inputting prediction scores of a plurality of targets included in a candidate search result into a fusion ordering model, to obtain a fusion ordering result; collecting feedback information of the plurality of targets included in the fusion ordering result; and updating the fusion ordering model by utilizing the feedback information and a combined function, wherein the combined function is a function constructed by utilizing the plurality of targets. The solution of the embodiment is favorable for balancing the requirements of the plurality of targets, and the obtained updated fusion ordering model can provide a better search ordering result.