diff --git a/RETREIVAL_SIGNALS.md b/RETREIVAL_SIGNALS.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6f064bc46..000000000 --- a/RETREIVAL_SIGNALS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -# Signals for Candidate Sources - -## Overview - -The candidate sourcing stage within the Twitter Recommendation algorithm serves to significantly narrow down the item size from approximately 1 billion to just a few thousand. This process utilizes Twitter user behavior as the primary input for the algorithm. This document comprehensively enumerates all the signals during the candidate sourcing phase. - -| Signals | Description | -| :-------------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| Author Follow | The accounts which user explicit follows. | -| Author Unfollow | The accounts which user recently unfollows. | -| Author Mute | The accounts which user have muted. | -| Author Block | The accounts which user have blocked | -| Tweet Favorite | The tweets which user clicked the like botton. | -| Tweet Unfavorite | The tweets which user clicked the unlike botton. | -| Retweet | The tweets which user retweeted | -| Quote Tweet | The tweets which user retweeted with comments. | -| Tweet Reply | The tweets which user replied. | -| Tweet Share | The tweets which user clicked the share botton. | -| Tweet Bookmark | The tweets which user clicked the bookmark botton. | -| Tweet Click | The tweets which user clicked and viewed the tweet detail page. | -| Tweet Video Watch | The video tweets which user watched certain seconds or percentage. | -| Tweet Don't like | The tweets which user clicked "Not interested in this tweet" botton. | -| Tweet Report | The tweets which user clicked "Report Tweet" botton. | -| Notification Open | The push notification tweets which user opened. | -| Ntab click | The tweets which user click on the Notifications page. | -| User AddressBook | The author accounts identifiers of the user's addressbook. | - -## Usage Details - -Twitter uses these user signals as training labels and/or ML features in the each candidate sourcing algorithms. The following tables shows how they are used in the each components. - -| Signals | USS | SimClusters | TwHin | UTEG | FRS | Light Ranking | -| :-------------------- | :----------------- | :----------------- | :----------------- | :----------------- | :----------------- | :----------------- | -| Author Follow | Features | Features / Labels | Features / Labels | Features | Features / Labels | N/A | -| Author Unfollow | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | -| Author Mute | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | Features | N/A | -| Author Block | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | Features | N/A | -| Tweet Favorite | Features | Features | Features / Labels | Features | Features / Labels | Features / Labels | -| Tweet Unfavorite | Features | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | -| Retweet | Features | N/A | Features / Labels | Features | Features / Labels | Features / Labels | -| Quote Tweet | Features | N/A | Features / Labels | Features | Features / Labels | Features / Labels | -| Tweet Reply | Features | N/A | Features | Features | Features / Labels | Features | -| Tweet Share | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | Features | N/A | -| Tweet Bookmark | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | -| Tweet Click | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | Features | Labels | -| Tweet Video Watch | Features | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | Labels | -| Tweet Don't like | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | -| Tweet Report | Features | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | -| Notification Open | Features | Features | Features | N/A | Features | N/A | -| Ntab click | Features | Features | Features | N/A | Features | N/A | -| User AddressBook | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Features | N/A | \ No newline at end of file