arXiv:2511.06635cs.IR2025-11中稿 · as a Full Research…被引 1

用大模型标注替代点击数据训练排序模型,效果因查询频率而异。

Can LLM Annotations Replace User Clicks for Learning to Rank?

  • 对比大模型标注与点击数据在排序任务中的表现差异。
  • 高频查询用点击数据更好,低频查询用大模型标注更优。
  • 融合两种信号的训练策略提升全频率查询效果。

大规模监督数据对现代排序模型训练至关重要,但高质量人工标注成本高昂。点击数据作为低成本替代方案已被广泛使用,而近期大语言模型(LLM)的发展使得基于LLM的相关性标注成为新选择。本文通过多维度对比,探究了LLM标注能否替代点击数据用于学习排序(LTR)。在公开数据集TianGong-ST和工业数据集Baidu-Click上的实验表明,点击监督模型在高频查询上表现更优,而LLM标注监督模型在中低频查询上更具优势。进一步分析发现,点击监督模型更擅长捕捉文档层面信号(如权威性、质量),而LLM标注模型在查询与文档语义匹配及相关性区分方面更有效。受此启发,我们探索了数据调度和频率感知多目标学习两种训练策略,均提升了各频率查询的排序性能,后者效果更佳。代码已开源:https://github.com/Trustworthy-Information-Access/LLMAnn_Click。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large-scale supervised data is essential for training modern ranking models, but obtaining high-quality human annotations is costly. Click data has been widely used as a low-cost alternative, and with recent advances in large language models (LLMs), LLM-based relevance annotation has emerged as another promising annotation. This paper investigates whether LLM annotations can replace click data for learning to rank (LTR) by conducting a comprehensive comparison across multiple dimensions. Experiments on both a public dataset, TianGong-ST, and an industrial dataset, Baidu-Click, show that click-supervised models perform better on high-frequency queries, while LLM annotation-supervised models are more effective on medium- and low-frequency queries. Further analysis shows that click-supervised models are better at capturing document-level signals such as authority or quality, while LLM annotation-supervised models are more effective at modeling semantic matching between queries and documents and at distinguishing relevant from non-relevant documents. Motivated by these observations, we explore two training strategies -- data scheduling and frequency-aware multi-objective learning -- that integrate both supervision signals. Both approaches enhance ranking performance across queries at all frequency levels, with the latter being more effective. Our code is available at https://github.com/Trustworthy-Information-Access/LLMAnn_Click.

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