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Generating natural language explanations for recommendations has become increasingly important in recommender systems. Traditional approaches typically treat user reviews as ground truth for explanations and focus on improving review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jingsen Zhang , Zihang Tian , Xueyang Feng , Xu Chen

There is an increasing demand for algorithms to explain their outcomes. So far, there is no method that explains the rankings produced by a ranking algorithm. To address this gap we propose LISTEN, a LISTwise ExplaiNer, to explain rankings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Maartje ter Hoeve , Anne Schuth , Daan Odijk , Maarten de Rijke

Future of sustainable fashion lies in adoption of AI for a better understanding of consumer shopping behaviour and using this understanding to further optimize product design, development and sourcing to finally reduce the probability of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shravan Sajja , Nupur Aggarwal , Sumanta Mukherjee , Kushagra Manglik , Satyam Dwivedi , Vikas Raykar

Explanations are well-known to improve recommender systems' transparency. These explanations may be local, explaining an individual recommendation, or global, explaining the recommender model in general. Despite their widespread use, there…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Marissa Radensky , Doug Downey , Kyle Lo , Zoran Popović , Daniel S. Weld

By providing explanations for users and system designers to facilitate better understanding and decision making, explainable recommendation has been an important research problem. In this paper, we propose Counterfactual Explainable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Juntao Tan , Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Yunqi Li , Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Recommender systems serve as foundational infrastructure in modern information ecosystems, helping users navigate digital content and discover items aligned with their preferences. At their core, recommender systems address a fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Min Hou , Le Wu , Yuxin Liao , Yonghui Yang , Zhen Zhang , Yu Wang , Changlong Zheng , Han Wu , Richang Hong

Despite the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI), designing user experiences (UX) for AI-powered systems remains challenging. UX designers face hurdles understanding AI technologies, such as pre-trained language models, as design…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Q. Vera Liao , Hariharan Subramonyam , Jennifer Wang , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Explainable information retrieval is an emerging research area aiming to make transparent and trustworthy information retrieval systems. Given the increasing use of complex machine learning models in search systems, explainability is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Avishek Anand , Lijun Lyu , Maximilian Idahl , Yumeng Wang , Jonas Wallat , Zijian Zhang

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly shows its potential to outperform predicate logic algorithms and human control alike. In automatically deriving a system model, AI algorithms learn relations in data that are not detectable for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Simon Daniel Duque Anton , Daniel Schneider , Hans Dieter Schotten

Recent developments in machine learning have introduced models that approach human performance at the cost of increased architectural complexity. Efforts to make the rationales behind the models' predictions transparent have inspired an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Pepa Atanasova , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma , Isabelle Augenstein

Feedback in creativity support tools can help crowdworkers to improve their ideations. However, current feedback methods require human assessment from facilitators or peers. This is not scalable to large crowds. We propose Interpretable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yunlong Wang , Priyadarshini Venkatesh , Brian Y. Lim

Explainable Recommender Systems is an important field of study which provides reasons behind the suggested recommendations. Explanations with recommender systems are useful for developers while debugging anomalies within the system and for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Prasant Mohapatra

Algorithms play a crucial role in many technological systems that control or affect various aspects of our lives. As a result, providing explanations for their decisions to address the needs of users and organisations is increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Trung Dong Huynh , Niko Tsakalakis , Ayah Helal , Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon , Luc Moreau

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly support decision-making across critical domains, yet current explainable AI (XAI) approaches prioritize algorithmic transparency over human comprehension. While XAI methods reveal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Christian Meske , Justin Brenne , Erdi Uenal , Sabahat Oelcer , Ayseguel Doganguen

The design of embedded systems, that are ubiquitously used in mobile devices and cars, is becoming continuously more complex such that efficient system-level design methods are becoming crucial. My research aims at developing systems that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Philipp Wanko

Explainable artificial intelligence techniques are developed at breakneck speed, but suitable evaluation approaches lag behind. With explainers becoming increasingly complex and a lack of consensus on how to assess their utility, it is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Edward Small , Yueqing Xuan , Danula Hettiachchi , Kacper Sokol

Recommender systems play an important role in supporting the achievement of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). In recommender systems, explanations can support different goals, such as increasing a user's trust in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Seda Polat Erdeniz , Alexander Felfernig , Sebastian Lubos , Merfat El-Mansi , Viet-Man Le

In this paper, we argue for a paradigm shift from the current model of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which may be counter-productive to better human decision making. In early decision support systems, we assumed that we could…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tim Miller

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong reasoning abilities in domains like mathematics, coding, and scientific problem-solving, yet their potential for ranking tasks, where prime examples include retrieval, recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Tao Feng , Zhigang Hua , Zijie Lei , Yan Xie , Shuang Yang , Bo Long , Jiaxuan You

In fashion recommender systems, each product usually consists of multiple semantic attributes (e.g., sleeves, collar, etc). When making cloth decisions, people usually show preferences for different semantic attributes (e.g., the clothes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Min Hou , Le Wu , Enhong Chen , Zhi Li , Vincent W. Zheng , Qi Liu