Bio
Krysta Svore is a Researcher in the Text Mining, Search, and Navigation Group, at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. Her research focuses on machine learning applications for the web. In particular, she is interested in search and information retrieval, specifically new features for ranking and retrieval and new methods of training for web search. Her previous research concentrated on quantum computation, particularly quantum fault tolerance and quantum error correction.
Krysta Svore received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University (with honors) in 2006 under Dr. Alfred Aho and Dr. Joseph Traub. She spent one year working with Dr. Isaac Chuang at MIT and several months working with Dr. John Preskill and Dr. Panos Aliferis at Caltech. She also spent time working with Dr. David DiVincenzo and Dr. Barbara Terhal at IBM Research, Yorktown. She received a B.A. in Mathematics, with a minor in Computer Science and French, from Princeton University in 2001.
- Krysta Svore and Chris Burges, A Machine Learning Approach for Improved BM25 Retrieval, in Conference on Information Knowledge Management (CIKM), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2009
- Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta Svore, and Jianfeng Gao, Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures, in Information Retrieval, Springer Verlag, 19 August 2009
- Jianfeng Gao, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta Svore, Yi Su, Nazan Khan, Shalin Shah, and Hongyan Zhou, Model Adaptation via Model Interpolation and Boosting for Web Search Ranking, in EMNLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
- Krysta M. Svore and Christopher J.C. Burges, A Machine Learning Approach for Improved BM25 Retrieval, no. MSR-TR-2009-92, 30 July 2009
- Pinar Donmez, Krysta M. Svore, and Christoper J.C. Burges, On the Local Optimality of LambdaRank, in SIGIR, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., July 2009
- Pinar Donmez, Krysta Svore, and Christopher J.C. Burges, On the Optimality of LambdaRank, no. MSR-TR-2008-179, November 2008
- Qiang Wu, Christopher J.C. Burges, Krysta Svore, and Jianfeng Gao, Ranking, Boosting, and Model Adaptation, no. MSR-TR-2008-109, October 2008
- K.M. Svore, Q. Wu, C.J.C. Burges, and A. Raman, Improving Web Spam Classification using Rank-time Features, in Proceedings of Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), January 2007
- Krysta Svore, Lucy Vanderwende, and Chris Burges, Enhancing Single-Document Summarization by Combining RankNet and Third-Party Sources, in Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007
Additional Publications
"Model Adaptation via Model Interpolation and Boosting for Web Search Ranking". J. Gao, Q. Wu, C.J.C. Burges, K.M. Svore, Y. Su, N. Kahn, S. Shah, and H. Zhou. In EMNLP '09: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 2009.
"On the Optimality of LambdaRank". P. Donmez, K.M. Svore, C.J.C. Burges. In SIGIR '09, Boston, MA, 2009. Also see Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-179, November 2008.
"Ranking, Boosting, and Model Adaptation". Q. Wu, C.J.C. Burges, K.M. Svore, J. Gao. Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-109, October 2008.
"Using Signals of Human Interest to Enhance Single-document Summarization". K. Svore, L. Vanderwende, and C. Burges. In AAAI '08: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, IL, 2008.
"Enhancing Single-Document Summarization by Combining RankNet and Third-party Sources". K. Svore, L. Vanderwende, and C. Burges. In EMNLP-CoNLL '07: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague, CZ, 2007.
"Improving Web Spam Classification using Rank-time Features". K. Svore, Q. Wu, C. Burges, and A. Raman. In AirWEB '07: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, Banff, Alberta, CA, 2007.
"Noise threshold for a fault-tolerant two-dimensional lattice architecture". K. Svore, D. DiVincenzo, and B. Terhal. Quantum Information and Computation (QIC), Vol. 7, Issue 4, pages 297-318, 2007.
"A flow-map model for analyzing pseudothresholds in fault-tolerant quantum computing". K.M. Svore, A.W. Cross, I.L. Chuang, and A.V. Aho. Quantum Information and Computation (QIC), Vol. 6, Issue 3, pages 193-212, 2006. LANL ArXiv: quant-ph/0508176.
"A Layered Software Architecture for Quantum Computing Design Tools". K.M. Svore, A.V. Aho, A.W. Cross, I. Chuang, and I.L. Markov. IEEE Computer, Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 74-83, 2006.
"Local Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation". K. Svore, B. Terhal, and D. DiVincenzo. Quantum Information Processes (QIP) 2005, January 13-18, 2005. Phys. Rev. A 72, 022317 (2005). LANL ArXiv: quant-ph/0410047.
"A Logarithmic-Depth Quantum Carry-Lookahead Adder". T. Draper, S. Kutin, E. Rains, and K. Svore. Quantum Information and Computation (QIC), Vol. 6, Issues 4-5, pages 351-369, 2006. LANL ArXiv: quant-ph/0406142.
"A Comparative Evaluation of Two Algorithms for Windows Registry Anomaly Detection". S. Stolfo, F. Apap, E. Eskin, K. Heller, S. Hershkop, A. Honig, K. Svore. Journal of Computer Security, Volume 13, Number 4, 2005.
"The Design and Optimization of Quantum Circuits using the Palindrome Transform". A. Aho and K. Svore. In Proceedings of the ERATO Conference on Quantum Information Sciences (EQIS), Kyoto, Japan, September 5-7, 2003. LANL ArXiv: quant-ph/0311008.
Select Presentations
"Fault-tolerant Quantum Threshold Estimates for a 2D Lattice Architecture". K. Svore, B. Terhal, and D. DiVincenzo. IBM Research Physics of Information Group Seminar, September 2005.
"Local Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation". K. Svore, B. Terhal, and D. DiVincenzo. Invited Speaker, IBM Workshop on Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation 2005, August 29-30, 2005. slides (ppt)
"Compiling Quantum Circuits into Elementary Unitary Operations". K. Svore. In Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing (GHC), Chicago, IL, October, 2004.
"Compiling Quantum Circuits into Elementary Unitary Operations". K. Svore. Quantum Information Processes (QIP) 2004, January 17-19, 2004.
"Toward a Software Architecture for Quantum Computing Design Tools". K. Svore, A. Cross, A. Aho, I. Chuang, and I. Markov. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Quantum Programming Languages (QPL), July 2004.
"A Logarithmic-Depth Quantum Carry-Lookahead Adder". T. Draper, S. Kutin, E. Rains, and K. Svore. In Proceedings of the ERATO Conference on Quantum Information Sciences (EQIS), Tokyo, Japan, September, 2004. LANL ArXiv: quant-ph/0406142.
"One Class Support Vector Machines for Detecting Anomalous Windows Registry Accesses". K. Heller, K. Svore, A. Keromytis, and S. Stolfo. In Proceedings of the ICDM Workshop on Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC), Melbourne, Florida, November 19, 2003. slides(ppt)
