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With the servitization of business, understanding how users experience services becomes a crucial success factor for companies. Therefore, there is a need to include feedback from user experiences in the software engineering process.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Paul Kobialka , Andrea Pferscher , Bernhard K. Aichernig , Einar Broch Johnsen , Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa

A central capability of intelligent systems is the ability to continuously build upon previous experiences to speed up and enhance learning of new tasks. Two distinct research paradigms have studied this question. Meta-learning views this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Chelsea Finn , Aravind Rajeswaran , Sham Kakade , Sergey Levine

Data mining is known to have a potential for predicting user performance. However, there are few studies that explore its potential for predicting student behavior in a procedural training environment. This paper presents a collective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Diego Riofrío-Luzcando , Jaime Ramírez , Marta Berrocal-Lobo

Underground forums where users discuss, buy, and sell illicit services and goods facilitate a better understanding of the economy and organization of cybercriminals. Prior work has shown that in particular private interactions provide a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Rebekah Overdorf , Carmela Troncoso , Rachel Greenstadt , Damon McCoy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) pipelines have become integral to modern research, supporting fields such as Medical Sciences, Agriculture, and Social Sciences, and enabling large-scale data analysis, predictive modeling, and the automation of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hyacinth Ali , Jessie Galasso-Carbonnel , Houari Sahraoui

Deep learning-based recommendation has become a widely adopted technique in various online applications. Typically, a deployed model undergoes frequent re-training to capture users' dynamic behaviors from newly collected interaction logs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Guohao Cai , Jieming Zhu , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Xiuqiang He , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang

There is no convincing evidence that backpropagation is a biologically plausible mechanism, and further studies of alternative learning methods are needed. A novel online clustering algorithm is presented that can produce arbitrary shaped…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ole Christian Eidheim

AI systems produce large volumes of logs as they interact with tools and users. Analysing these logs can help understand model capabilities, propensities, and behaviours, or assess whether an evaluation worked as intended. Researchers have…

Lifelong learning can be viewed as a continuous transfer learning procedure over consecutive tasks, where learning a given task depends on accumulated knowledge --- the so-called knowledge base. Most published work on lifelong learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Changjian Shui , Ihsen Hedhli , Christian Gagné

Human decisional processes result from the employment of selected quantities of relevant information, generally synthesized from environmental incoming data and stored memories. Their main goal is the production of an appropriate and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Graziano Barnabei , Franco Bagnoli , Ciro Conversano , Elena Lensi

In many contexts it is useful to predict the number of individuals in some population who will initiate a particular activity during a given period. For example, the number of users who will install a software update, the number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Thomas Richardson , Yu Liu , James McQueen , Doug Hains

Existing fashion recommendation systems encounter difficulties in using visual data for accurate and personalized recommendations. This research describes an innovative end-to-end pipeline that uses artificial intelligence to provide…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Mohamaed Foued Ayedi , Hiba Ben Salem , Soulaimen Hammami , Ahmed Ben Said , Rateb Jabbar , Achraf CHabbouh

In this paper, we propose an online learning-based predictive control (LPC) approach designed for nonlinear systems that lack explicit system dynamics. Unlike traditional model predictive control (MPC) algorithms that rely on known system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Yuanqing Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

Rating-based collaborative filtering is the process of predicting how a user would rate a given item from other user ratings. We propose three related slope one schemes with predictors of the form f(x) = x + b, which precompute the average…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Daniel Lemire , Anna Maclachlan

Understanding and predicting pedestrian crossing behavior is essential for enhancing automated driving and improving driving safety. Predicting gap selection behavior and the use of zebra crossing enables driving systems to proactively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chi Zhang , Janis Sprenger , Zhongjun Ni , Christian Berger

Data analysis for scientific experiments and enterprises, large-scale simulations, and machine learning tasks all entail the use of complex computational pipelines to reach quantitative and qualitative conclusions. If some of the activities…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Raoni Lourenço , Juliana Freire , Dennis Shasha

User response prediction, which aims to predict the probability that a user will provide a predefined positive response in a given context such as clicking on an ad or purchasing an item, is crucial to many industrial applications such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zekai Chen , Fangtian Zhong , Zhumin Chen , Xiao Zhang , Robert Pless , Xiuzhen Cheng

Model-free and data-driven prediction of tipping point transitions in nonlinear dynamical systems is a challenging and outstanding task in complex systems science. We propose a novel, fully data-driven machine learning algorithm based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Daniel Köglmayr , Christoph Räth

Machine learning has become a fundamental approach for modeling, prediction, and control, enabling systems to learn from data and perform complex tasks. Reservoir computing is a machine learning tool that leverages high-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Sahand Tangerami , Nicholas A. Mecholsky , Francesco Sorrentino

Contemporary product analytics systems require users to pose explicit queries, such as writing SQL, configuring dashboards, or constructing funnels, before insights can surface. This pull-based paradigm creates a bottleneck: it requires…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Arun Patra , Bhushan Vadgave