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A Comparison of Contextual and Non-Contextual Preference Ranking for Set Addition Problems

Artificial Intelligence 2022-04-27 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we study the problem of evaluating the addition of elements to a set. This problem is difficult, because it can, in the general case, not be reduced to unconditional preferences between the choices. Therefore, we model preferences based on the context of the decision. We discuss and compare two different Siamese network architectures for this task: a twin network that compares the two sets resulting after the addition, and a triplet network that models the contribution of each candidate to the existing set. We evaluate the two settings on a real-world task; learning human card preferences for deck building in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. We show that the triplet approach achieves a better result than the twin network and that both outperform previous results on this task.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2107.04438,
  title  = {A Comparison of Contextual and Non-Contextual Preference Ranking for Set Addition Problems},
  author = {Timo Bertram and Johannes Fürnkranz and Martin Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04438},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2105.11864

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