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As LLMs shift toward autonomous agents, Deep Research has emerged as a pivotal metric. However, existing academic benchmarks like BrowseComp often fail to meet real-world demands for open-ended research, which requires robust skills in…

Search agents powered by large language models can autonomously decompose queries, retrieve information, and synthesize answers through multi-step reasoning. However, the rapid growth of training methods has outpaced controlled comparison:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yibo Zhao , Zichen Ding , Jiayi Wu , Zun Wang , Xiang Li

Correctly pricing products or services in an online marketplace presents a challenging problem and one of the critical factors for the success of the business. When users are looking to buy an item they typically search for it. Query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jiawei Wen , Hossein Vahabi , Mihajlo Grbovic

There is much empirical evidence that item-item collaborative filtering works well in practice. Motivated to understand this, we provide a framework to design and analyze various recommendation algorithms. The setup amounts to online binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Guy Bresler , Devavrat Shah , Luis F. Voloch

Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, demonstrating remarkable results in both academic benchmarks and industrial applications. However, existing systems predominantly focus on unifying retrieval and ranking while…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Huimin Yan , Longfei Xu , Junjie Sun , Ni Ou , Wei Luo , Xing Tan , Ran Cheng , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu

The problem of content search through comparisons has recently received considerable attention. In short, a user searching for a target object navigates through a database in the following manner: the user is asked to select the object most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Amin Karbasi , Stratis Ioannidis , Laurent Massoulie

Search has for a long time been an important tool for users to retrieve information. Syntactic search is matching documents or objects containing specific keywords like user-history, location, preference etc. to improve the results.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Arijit Das , Diganta Saha

Relational databases (RDBs) play a crucial role in many real-world web applications, supporting data management across multiple interconnected tables. Beyond typical retrieval-oriented tasks, prediction tasks on RDBs have recently gained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kyungho Kim , Geon Lee , Juyeon Kim , Dongwon Choi , Shinhwan Kang , Kijung Shin

Given the concerns around the existing subjective and objective policy evaluation approaches, this study proposes a new combined subjective-objective policy evaluation approach to choose better policy that reflects the will of citizens and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Misa Owa , Junichi Miyakoshi , Takeshi Kato

A data product is created with the intention of solving a specific problem, addressing a specific business usecase or meeting a particular need, going beyond just serving data as a raw asset. Data products enable end users to gain greater…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Faisal Chowdhury , Sola Shirai , Sarthak Dash , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Horst Samulowitz

User-generated reviews serve as crucial references in shopper's decision-making process. Moreover, they improve product sales and validate the reputation of the website as a whole. Thus, it becomes important to design reviews ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Akhil Sai Peddireddy

Generative search engines have the potential to transform how people seek information online, but generated responses from existing large language models (LLMs)-backed generative search engines may not always be accurate. Nonetheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xuming Hu , Xiaochuan Li , Junzhe Chen , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Xiaoguang Li , Yasheng Wang , Qun Liu , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu , Zhijiang Guo

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. Two critical challenges stay in today's e-commerce search: how to retrieve items that are semantically relevant but not exact matching to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Kang Zhang , Zhiling Tang , Yunjiang Jiang , Yun Xiao , Weipeng Yan , Wen-Yun Yang

AI-based peer review systems tend to produce shallow and overpraising suggestions compared to human feedback. Here, we evaluate how well a reasoning LLM trained with multi-objective reinforcement learning (REMOR) can overcome these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Pawin Taechoyotin , Daniel Acuna

Airbnb, a two-sided online marketplace connecting guests and hosts, offers a diverse and unique inventory of accommodations, experiences, and services. Search filters play an important role in helping guests navigate this variety by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hao Li , Kedar Bellare , Siyu Yang , Sherry Chen , Liwei He , Stephanie Moyerman , Sanjeev Katariya

If 100 people issue the same search query, they may have 100 different goals. While existing work on user-centric AI evaluation highlights the importance of aligning systems with fine-grained user intents, current search evaluation methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yoonseo Choi , Eunhye Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Donghyun Park , Honggu Lee , Jinyoung Kim , Juho Kim

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming web search by shifting from document ranking to synthesizing answers, and are increasingly deployed as autonomous agentic search systems that iteratively interact with external knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Guangzhi Xiong , Qiao Jin , Xiao Wang , Yin Fang , Haolin Liu , Yifan Yang , Fangyuan Chen , Zhixing Song , Dengyu Wang , Minjia Zhang , Zhiyong Lu , Aidong Zhang

In cognitive science and linguistic theory, dialogue is not seen as a chain of independent utterances but rather as a joint activity sustained by coherence, consistency, and shared understanding. However, many systems for open-domain and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tianyi Zhang , David Traum

The exponential expansion of digital commerce in Indonesia has significantly shifted consumer interactions toward video-centric social networks, particularly YouTube. Consequently, the sheer volume of unstructured, multi-contextual comments…

Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have led to the development of NLP-based recommender systems that have shown superior performance. However, current models commonly treat items as mere IDs and adopt discriminative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jinming Li , Wentao Zhang , Tian Wang , Guanglei Xiong , Alan Lu , Gerard Medioni