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Context Selection for Embedding Models

NeurIPS 2017 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Variational methods for sequence models · 12 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Context selection (CS-EFE, learned binary subset of context) instead of conditioning on all context elementsexponential family embeddings · MovieLens-100K, eBird-PA, Market-Baskettest log-likelihoodHelped
Context selection with β=20 (expected context size control)exponential family embeddings · MovieLens-100Ktest log-likelihood: -1.06 to -1.00 (K=10); -1.06 to -0.97 (K=50)Helped
Context selection, larger improvement on eBird-PAexponential family embeddings · eBird-PAtest log-likelihood: -1.74 to about -1.33/-1.34 at best βHelped
Context selection with β=2 to 10 on Market-Basketexponential family embeddings · Market-Baskettest log-likelihood: -0.632 to -0.623 (K=50)Helped
Context selection (CS-EFE, β=20) on MovieLens embeddingsembedding quality vs genre similarity · MovieLens-100KSpearman's correlation with genre similarity and mean-sim@5: 0.066 to 0.108 (Spearman); 0.272 to 0.328 (mean-sim@5)Helped
Larger prior β (fewer expected selected context elements, approaching full EFE) (ablation)CS-EFE · MovieLens-100Ktest log-likelihoodMixed

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