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Analogy is a central faculty of human intelligence, enabling abstract patterns discovered in one domain to be applied to another. Despite its central role in cognition, the mechanisms by which Transformers acquire and implement analogical…

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State-of-the-art results in typical classification tasks are mostly achieved by unexplainable machine learning methods, like deep neural networks, for instance. Contrarily, in this paper, we investigate the application of rule learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Albert Nössig , Tobias Hell , Georg Moser

Conventional Learning-to-Rank (LTR) methods optimize the utility of the rankings to the users, but they are oblivious to their impact on the ranked items. However, there has been a growing understanding that the latter is important to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Ashudeep Singh , Thorsten Joachims

Owing to the advancement of deep learning, artificial systems are now rival to humans in several pattern recognition tasks, such as visual recognition of object categories. However, this is only the case with the tasks for which correct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Xing Liu , Takayuki Okatani

We are interested in aligning how people think about objects and what machines perceive, meaning by this the fact that object recognition, as performed by a machine, should follow a process which resembles that followed by humans when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Luca Erculiani , Andrea Bontempelli , Andrea Passerini , Fausto Giunchiglia

Ranking items regarding individual user interests is a core technique of multiple downstream tasks such as recommender systems. Learning such a personalized ranker typically relies on the implicit feedback from users' past click-through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jiarui Jin , Zexue He , Mengyue Yang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Jun Wang , Julian McAuley

In multiple-choice exams, students select one answer from among typically four choices and can explain why they made that particular choice. Students are good at understanding natural language questions and based on their domain knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jennifer D'Souza , Isaiah Onando Mulang' , Soeren Auer

Persistence has proved to be a valuable tool to analyze real world data robustly. Several approaches to persistence have been attempted over time, some topological in flavor, based on the vector space-valued homology functor, other…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Mattia G. Bergomi , Pietro Vertechi

The task of learning to rank has been widely studied by the machine learning community, mainly due to its use and great importance in information retrieval, data mining, and natural language processing. Therefore, ranking accurately and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Nathalia Q. Ascenção , Luis C. S. Afonso , Danilo Colombo , Luciano Oliveira , João P. Papa

Humans excel at acquiring knowledge through observation. For example, we can learn to use new tools by watching demonstrations. This skill is fundamental for intelligent systems to interact with the world. A key step to acquire this skill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Gen Li , Varun Jampani , Deqing Sun , Laura Sevilla-Lara

We consider the problem of learning to choose from a given set of objects, where each object is represented by a feature vector. Traditional approaches in choice modelling are mainly based on learning a latent, real-valued utility function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Karlson Pfannschmidt , Eyke Hüllermeier

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 describe a method for predicting a classification of an object given classifications of the objects in the training set, assuming that the pairs object/classification are generated by an i.i.d. process from a continuous probability…

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Ranking is a core task in recommender systems, which aims at providing an ordered list of items to users. Typically, a ranking function is learned from the labeled dataset to optimize the global performance, which produces a ranking score…

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Ranking models are the main components of information retrieval systems. Several approaches to ranking are based on traditional machine learning algorithms using a set of hand-crafted features. Recently, researchers have leveraged deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Mohamed Trabelsi , Zhiyu Chen , Brian D. Davison , Jeff Heflin

We study the problem of learning to rank from pairwise preferences, and solve a long-standing open problem that has led to development of many heuristics but no provable results for our particular problem. Given a set $V$ of $n$ elements,…

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Comparative reasoning is a process of comparing objects, concepts, or entities to draw conclusions, which constitutes a fundamental cognitive ability. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to pre-train language models for enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Mengxia Yu , Zhihan Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Meng Jiang

The existing object classification techniques based on descriptive features rely on object alignment to compute the similarity of objects for classification. This paper replaces the necessity of object alignment through sorting of feature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Bimal Kumar Ray

This article is devoted to the problem of predicting the value taken by a random permutation $\Sigma$, describing the preferences of an individual over a set of numbered items $\{1,\; \ldots,\; n\}$ say, based on the observation of an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Stephan Clémençon , Anna Korba , Eric Sibony

The remarkable success of Artificial Intelligence in advancing automated decision-making is evident both in academia and industry. Within the plethora of applications, ranking systems hold significant importance in various domains. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Alessandro Castelnovo , Riccardo Crupi , Nicolò Mombelli , Gabriele Nanino , Daniele Regoli