Are Neural Rankers still Outperformed by Gradient Boosted Decision Trees?

Zhen Qin 0002, Le Yan, Honglei Zhuang, Yi Tay, Rama Kumar Pasumarthi, Xuanhui Wang, Michael Bendersky, Marc Najork. Are Neural Rankers still Outperformed by Gradient Boosted Decision Trees?. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2021, Virtual Event, Austria, May 3-7, 2021. OpenReview.net, 2021. [doi]

@inproceedings{0002YZTPWBN21,
  title = {Are Neural Rankers still Outperformed by Gradient Boosted Decision Trees?},
  author = {Zhen Qin 0002 and Le Yan and Honglei Zhuang and Yi Tay and Rama Kumar Pasumarthi and Xuanhui Wang and Michael Bendersky and Marc Najork},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Ut1vF_q_vC},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/0002YZTPWBN21},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  booktitle = {9th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2021, Virtual Event, Austria, May 3-7, 2021},
  publisher = {OpenReview.net},
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