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While role-playing agents excel in short-term interactions, long-term conversations overwhelm context windows, motivating external memory frameworks. Current systems typically rely on persona-agnostic summarization, which records facts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rongsheng Zhang , Ruofan Hu , Weijie Chen , Jiji Tang , Junnan Ren , Wanying Wu , Xunuoyan Chen , Tangjie Lv , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

App usage prediction is important for smartphone system optimization to enhance user experience. Existing modeling approaches utilize historical app usage logs along with a wide range of semantic information to predict the app usage;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Yonchanok Khaokaew , Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman , Ryen W. White , Flora D. Salim

To answer a question, language models often need to integrate prior knowledge learned during pretraining and new information presented in context. We hypothesize that models perform this integration in a predictable way across different…

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We study the role of linguistic context in predicting quantifiers (`few', `all'). We collect crowdsourced data from human participants and test various models in a local (single-sentence) and a global context (multi-sentence) condition.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Sandro Pezzelle , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld , Raffaela Bernardi , Jakub Szymanik

Causal inference deals with identifying which random variables "cause" or control other random variables. Recent advances on the topic of causal inference based on tools from statistical estimation and machine learning have resulted in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-23 Matt J. Kusner , Yu Sun , Karthik Sridharan , Kilian Q. Weinberger

User activity sequences have emerged as one of the most important signals in recommender systems. We present a foundational model, PinFM, for understanding user activity sequences across multiple applications at a billion-scale visual…

Being able to automatically and quickly understand the user context during a session is a main issue for recommender systems. As a first step toward achieving that goal, we propose a model that observes in real time the diversity brought by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Sylvain Castagnos , Amaury L 'Huillier , Anne Boyer

This paper explores predicting suitable prosodic features for fine-grained emotion analysis from the discourse-level text. To obtain fine-grained emotional prosodic features as predictive values for our model, we extract a phoneme-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xianhao Wei , Jia Jia , Xiang Li , Zhiyong Wu , Ziyi Wang

Recent advancements in foundation models (FMs) have attracted increasing attention in the wireless communication domain. Leveraging the powerful multi-task learning capability, FMs hold the promise of unifying multiple tasks of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Tianyue Zheng , Jiajia Guo , Linglong Dai , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

We study causal inference in a multi-environment setting, in which the functional relations for producing the variables from their direct causes remain the same across environments, while the distribution of exogenous noises may vary. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-29 AmirEmad Ghassami , Saber Salehkaleybar , Negar Kiyavash , Kun Zhang

The inference of the causal relationship between a pair of observed variables is a fundamental problem in science, and most existing approaches are based on one single causal model. In practice, however, observations are often collected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Shoubo Hu , Zhitang Chen , Vahid Partovi Nia , Laiwan Chan , Yanhui Geng

Psychological studies observe that emotions are rarely expressed in isolation and are typically influenced by the surrounding context. While recent studies effectively harness uni- and multimodal cues for emotion inference, hardly any study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Soujanya Narayana , Ibrahim Radwan , Ramanathan Subramanian , Roland Goecke

Many collaborative recommender systems leverage social correlation theories to improve suggestion performance. However, they focus on explicit relations between users and they leave out other types of information that can contribute to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Noemi Mauro , Liliana Ardissono , Zhongli Filippo Hu

In multi-behavior recommendation scenarios, analyzing users' diverse behaviors, such as click, purchase, and rating, enables a more comprehensive understanding of their interests, facilitating personalized and accurate recommendations. A…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mingshi Yan , Zhiyong Cheng , Fan Liu , Yingda Lyu , Yahong Han

The proliferation of online micro-video platforms has underscored the necessity for advanced recommender systems to mitigate information overload and deliver tailored content. Despite advancements, accurately and promptly capturing dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Chengzhi Lin , Hezheng Lin , Shuchang Liu , Cangguang Ruan , LingJing Xu , Dezhao Yang , Chuyuan Wang , Yongqi Liu

Recent research has unveiled the importance of online social networks for improving the quality of recommender systems and encouraged the research community to investigate better ways of exploiting the social information for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Lukas Eberhard , Christoph Trattner , Denis Parra , Leandro Marinho

Nowadays, mobile telephony interruptions in our daily life activities are common because of the inappropriate ringing notifications of incoming phone calls in different contexts. Such interruptions may impact on the work attention not only…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Iqbal H. Sarker , A. S. M. Kayes , Md Hasan Furhad , Mohammad Mainul Islam , Md Shohidul Islam

User prompts to large language models (LLMs) are often ambiguous or under-specified, and subtle contextual cues shaped by user intentions, prior knowledge, and risk factors strongly influence what constitutes an appropriate response.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Minseon Kim , Lucas Caccia , Zhengyan Shi , Matheus Pereira , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Xingdi Yuan , Alessandro Sordoni

As the popularity of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) increases, designing accurate models for Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation receives more attention. POI recommendation is often performed by incorporating contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Mitra Baratchi , Fabio Crestani

Context-awareness in smart mobile applications is a growing area of study, because of it's intelligence in the applications. In order to build context-aware intelligent applications, mining contextual behavioral rules of individual…

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