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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Le Yu , Zihang Liu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Chuanren Liu , Weifeng Lv

Capturing the dynamics in user preference is crucial to better predict user future behaviors because user preferences often drift over time. Many existing recommendation algorithms -- including both shallow and deep ones -- often model such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chao Chen , Dongsheng Li , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currently, the predominant approach to preference elicitation is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski

Current image generation systems produce high-quality images but struggle with ambiguous user prompts, making interpretation of actual user intentions difficult. Many users must modify their prompts several times to ensure the generated…

Synthesis of digital artifacts conditioned on user prompts has become an important paradigm facilitating an explosion of use cases with generative AI. However, such models often fail to connect the generated outputs and desired target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Melvin Wong , Yew-Soon Ong , Abhishek Gupta , Kavitesh K. Bali , Caishun Chen

In human-in-the-loop machine learning, the user provides information beyond that in the training data. Many algorithms and user interfaces have been designed to optimize and facilitate this human--machine interaction; however, fewer studies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Pedram Daee , Tomi Peltola , Aki Vehtari , Samuel Kaski

In the landscape of contemporary recommender systems, user-item interactions are inherently dynamic and sequential, often characterized by various behaviors. Prior research has explored the modeling of user preferences through sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jingsong Su , Xuetao Ma , Mingming Li , Qiannan Zhu , Yu Guo

Autonomously learning diverse behaviors without an extrinsic reward signal has been a problem of interest in reinforcement learning. However, the nature of learning in such mechanisms is unconstrained, often resulting in the accumulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Maxence Hussonnois , Thommen George Karimpanal , Santu Rana

We tackle the problem of constructive preference elicitation, that is the problem of learning user preferences over very large decision problems, involving a combinatorial space of possible outcomes. In this setting, the suggested…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-08 Paolo Dragone , Stefano Teso , Mohit Kumar , Andrea Passerini

Learning models of user behaviour is an important problem that is broadly applicable across many application domains requiring human-robot interaction. In this work we show that it is possible to learn a generative model for distinct user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Daniel Angelov , Yordan Hristov , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Discrete choice models are essential for modelling various decision-making processes in human behaviour. However, the specification of these models has depended heavily on domain knowledge from experts, and the fully automated but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Fumiyasu Makinoshima , Tatsuya Mitomi , Fumiya Makihara , Eigo Segawa

Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junzhe Jiang , Shang Qu , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Kai Zhang , Rui Li , Jiatong Li , Min Gao

We propose a new online learning model for learning with preference feedback. The model is especially suited for applications like web search and recommender systems, where preference data is readily available from implicit user feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy , Thorsten Joachims

Thinking of technology as a design material is appealing. It encourages designers to explore the material's properties to understand its capabilities and limitations, a prerequisite to generative design thinking. However, as a material, AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hariharan Subramonyam , Colleen Seifert , Eytan Adar

Narratives are a predominant part of games, and their design poses challenges when identifying, encoding, interpreting, evaluating, and generating them. One way to address this would be to approach narrative design in a more abstract layer,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Alberto Alvarez , Jose Font , Julian Togelius

User-centric recommendation has become essential for delivering personalized services, as it enables systems to adapt to users' evolving behaviors while respecting their long-term preferences and privacy constraints. Although federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chunxu Zhang , Zhiheng Xue , Guodong Long , Weipeng Zhang , Bo Yang

The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yuting Zhang , Ying Sun , Dazhong Shen , Ziwei Xie , Feng Liu , Changwang Zhang , Xiang Liu , Jun Wang , Hui Xiong

Discovering user preferences across different domains is pivotal in cross-domain recommendation systems, particularly when platforms lack comprehensive user-item interactive data. The limited presence of shared users often hampers the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zongyi Xiang , Yan Zhang , Lixin Duan , Hongzhi Yin , Ivor W. Tsang

Preference elicitation is the task of suggesting a highly preferred configuration to a decision maker. The preferences are typically learned by querying the user for choice feedback over pairs or sets of objects. In its constructive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Paolo Dragone , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

To best assist human designers with different styles, Machine Learning (ML) systems need to be able to adapt to them. However, there has been relatively little prior work on how and when to best adapt an ML system to a co-designer. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Emily Halina , Matthew Guzdial