Week 9

Ads ranking at Yandex

Lecture by Margarita Mishustina.

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• Lecture

In Week 9, we have a guest lecture by Margarita Mishustina, team/tech lead of the deep learning ads ranking models team at Yandex.

During the lecture, we:

1. Review the full ads ranking pipeline: index creation, retrieval, pre-ranking, ranking, re-ranking, and auction.
2. Provide an in-depth discussion of the ranking stage, with a focus on early fusion-based deep learning models.