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Many modern machine learning applications, such as multi-task learning, require finding optimal model parameters to trade-off multiple objective functions that may conflict with each other. The notion of the Pareto set allows us to focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Mao Ye , Qiang Liu

Multi-criteria recommender systems can improve the quality of recommendations by considering user preferences on multiple criteria. One promising approach proposed recently is multi-criteria ranking, which uses Pareto ranking to assign a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yong Zheng , David Xuejun Wang

Package-to-group recommender systems recommend a set of unified items to a group of people. Different from conventional settings, it is not easy to measure the utility of group recommendations because it involves more than one user. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ryoma Sato

Multi-objective re-ranking has become a critical component of modern multi-stage recommender systems, as it tasked to balance multiple conflicting objectives such as accuracy, diversity, and fairness. Existing multi-objective re-ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wei Zhou , Wuyang Li , Junkai Ji , Xueliang Li , Wenjing Hong , Zexuan Zhu , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He

Assessors make preference judgments faster and more consistently than graded judgments. Preference judgments can also recognize distinctions between items that appear equivalent under graded judgments. Unfortunately, preference judgments…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Charles L. A. Clarke , Alexandra Vtyurina , Mark D. Smucker

In consumer theory, ranking available objects by means of preference relations yields the most common description of individual choices. However, preference-based models assume that individuals: (1) give their preferences only between pairs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Alessio Benavoli , Dario Azzimonti , Dario Piga

User preferences for items can be inferred from either explicit feedback, such as item ratings, or implicit feedback, such as rental histories. Research in collaborative filtering has concentrated on explicit feedback, resulting in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Andriy Mnih , Yee Whye Teh

Combinatorial preference aggregation has many applications in AI. Given the exponential nature of these preferences, compact representations are needed and ($m$)CP-nets are among the most studied ones. Sequential and global voting are two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Thomas Lukasiewicz , Enrico Malizia

We investigate the problem of probably approximately correct and fair (PACF) ranking of items by adaptively evoking pairwise comparisons. Given a set of $n$ items that belong to disjoint groups, our goal is to find an $(\epsilon,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Sruthi Gorantla , Sara Ahmadian

Preference Inference involves inferring additional user preferences from elicited or observed preferences, based on assumptions regarding the form of the user's preference relation. In this paper we consider a situation in which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Nic Wilson , Anne-Marie George , Barry O'Sullivan

Given an undirected graph representing similarities between a set of items and an additive measure evaluating the items, we treat the position of a special subset of items in an ordinal ranking through a collection of combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Samuel Boardman

In classic reinforcement learning (RL) and decision making problems, policies are evaluated with respect to a scalar reward function, and all optimal policies are the same with regards to their expected return. However, many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Han Shao , Lee Cohen , Avrim Blum , Yishay Mansour , Aadirupa Saha , Matthew R. Walter

Finding specific preference-guided Pareto solutions that represent different trade-offs among multiple objectives is critical yet challenging in multi-objective problems. Existing methods are restrictive in preference definitions and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Lisha Chen , AFM Saif , Yanning Shen , Tianyi Chen

Many machine learning tasks aim to find models that work well not for a single, but for a group of criteria, often opposing ones. One such example is imbalanced data classification, where, on the one hand, we want to achieve the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Szymon Wojciechowski , Michał Woźniak

The Assignment problem is a fundamental and well-studied problem in the intersection of Social Choice, Computational Economics and Discrete Allocation. In the Assignment problem, a group of agents expresses preferences over a set of items,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Barak Steindl , Meirav Zehavi

Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Nina Chiarelli , Clément Dallard , Andreas Darmann , Stefan Lendl , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Ulrich Pferschy

Learning the true ordering between objects by aggregating a set of expert opinion rank order lists is an important and ubiquitous problem in many applications ranging from social choice theory to natural language processing and search…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-17 Avradeep Bhowmik , Joydeep Ghosh

We study the problem of learning to partition users into groups, where one must learn the compatibilities between the users to achieve optimal groupings. We define four natural objectives that optimize for average and worst case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Arun Rajkumar , Koyel Mukherjee , Theja Tulabandhula

We consider a multi-objective optimization problem with objective functions that are expensive to evaluate. The decision maker (DM) has unknown preferences, and so the standard approach is to generate an approximation of the Pareto front…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Juan Ungredda , Mariapia Marchi , Teresa Montrone , Juergen Branke

Rank aggregation systems collect ordinal preferences from individuals to produce a global ranking that represents the social preference. Rank-breaking is a common practice to reduce the computational complexity of learning the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Ashish Khetan , Sewoong Oh