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Prompt engineering has made significant contributions to the era of large language models, yet its effectiveness depends on the skills of a prompt author. This paper introduces $\textit{iPrOp}$, a novel interactive prompt optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Jiahui Li , Roman Klinger

Direct alignment algorithms have proven an effective step for aligning language models to human-desired behaviors. Current variants of the Direct Preference Optimization objective have focused on a strict setting where all tokens are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Fenia Christopoulou , Ronald Cardenas , Gerasimos Lampouras , Haitham Bou-Ammar , Jun Wang

Geosteering workflows are increasingly based on the quantification of subsurface uncertainties during real-time operations. As a consequence operational decision making is becoming both better informed and more complex. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Sergey Alyaev , Reidar Brumer Bratvold , Sofija Ivanova , Andrew Holsaeter , Morten Bendiksen

Recommender systems are increasingly successful in recommending personalized content to users. However, these systems often capitalize on popular content. There is also a continuous evolution of user interests that need to be captured, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Khushhall Chandra Mahajan , Amey Porobo Dharwadker , Romil Shah , Simeng Qu , Gaurav Bang , Brad Schumitsch

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has sparked significant interest in using natural language for preference learning. However, existing methods often suffer from high computational burdens, taxing human supervision, and lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Saaduddin Mahmud , Mason Nakamura , Shlomo Zilberstein

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their capabilities across various tasks, from language translation to complex reasoning. Understanding and predicting human behavior and biases are crucial for artificial intelligence (AI)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Thuy Ngoc Nguyen , Kasturi Jamale , Cleotilde Gonzalez

Multi-criteria decision making in large databases is very important in real world applications. Recently, an interactive query has been studied extensively in the database literature with the advantage of both the top-k query (with limited…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Junyu Liao , Ashwin Lall , Mitsunori Ogihara , Raymond Wong

Preference learning algorithms (e.g., RLHF and DPO) are frequently used to steer LLMs to produce generations that are more preferred by humans, but our understanding of their inner workings is still limited. In this work, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Angelica Chen , Sadhika Malladi , Lily H. Zhang , Xinyi Chen , Qiuyi Zhang , Rajesh Ranganath , Kyunghyun Cho

Information extraction and user intention identification are central topics in modern query understanding and recommendation systems. In this paper, we propose DeepProbe, a generic information-directed interaction framework which is built…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-02 Zi Yin , Keng-hao Chang , Ruofei Zhang

Clustering is a powerful tool in data analysis, but it is often difficult to find a grouping that aligns with a user's needs. To address this, several methods incorporate constraints obtained from users into clustering algorithms, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Sharad Vikram , Sanjoy Dasgupta

The quality of human preference data is crucial for training and evaluating large language models (LLMs), particularly in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and direct preference optimization (DPO) scenarios. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yimin Du

Leveraging human preferences for steering the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) has demonstrated notable success in recent years. Nonetheless, data selection and labeling are still a bottleneck for these systems, particularly at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Luckeciano C. Melo , Panagiotis Tigas , Alessandro Abate , Yarin Gal

Given a sequence of sets, where each set has a timestamp and contains an arbitrary number of elements, temporal sets prediction aims to predict the elements in the subsequent set. Previous studies for temporal sets prediction mainly focus…

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

While a vast collection of explainable AI (XAI) algorithms have been developed in recent years, they are often criticized for significant gaps with how humans produce and consume explanations. As a result, current XAI techniques are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Vivian Lai , Yiming Zhang , Chacha Chen , Q. Vera Liao , Chenhao Tan

User response prediction is a crucial component for personalized information retrieval and filtering scenarios, such as recommender system and web search. The data in user response prediction is mostly in a multi-field categorical format…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yanru Qu , Bohui Fang , Weinan Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Minzhe Niu , Huifeng Guo , Yong Yu , Xiuqiang He

As AI technology continues to advance, the importance of human-AI collaboration becomes increasingly evident, with numerous studies exploring its potential in various fields. One vital field is data science, including feature engineering…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Qian Zhu , Dakuo Wang , Shuai Ma , April Yi Wang , Zixin Chen , Udayan Khurana , Xiaojuan Ma

To effectively assist human workers in assembly tasks a robot must proactively offer support by inferring their preferences in sequencing the task actions. Previous work has focused on learning the dominant preferences of human workers for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Heramb Nemlekar , Jignesh Modi , Satyandra K. Gupta , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Learning-assisted algorithm design often has to make reliable search decisions under small evaluation budgets, where committing to a single metaheuristic can be unreliable. We propose WASHH, a Whale-guided Adaptive Selection Hyper-Heuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yifu Zhao , Xiaofan Zou , Junhao Wei , Yanxiao Li , Baili Lu , Zhenhong Peng , Dexing Yao , Haochen Li , Qinbin He , Sio-Kei Im , Xu Yang , Yapeng Wang

Requirements prioritization is a critical activity during the early software development process, which produces a set of key requirements to implement. The prioritization process offers a parity among the requirements based on multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jonathan Winton , Francis Palma

Many existing industrial recommender systems are sensitive to the patterns of user-item engagement. Light users, who interact less frequently, correspond to a data sparsity problem, making it difficult for the system to accurately learn and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hanjia Lyu , Hanqing Zeng , Yinglong Xia , Ren Chen , Jiebo Luo