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Classification systems are evaluated in a countless number of papers. However, we find that evaluation practice is often nebulous. Frequently, metrics are selected without arguments, and blurry terminology invites misconceptions. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Juri Opitz

Preference elicitation is an active learning approach to tackle the cold-start problem of recommender systems. Roughly speaking, new users are asked to rate some carefully selected items in order to compute appropriate recommendations for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Claudius Proissl , Amel Vatic , Helmut Waldschmidt

We present a novel approach to help decision-makers efficiently identify preferred solutions from the Pareto set of a multi-objective optimization problem. Our method uses a Bayesian model to estimate the decision-maker's utility function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-13 Felix Huber , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Raul Astudillo

Recent recommender systems started to use rating elicitation, which asks new users to rate a small seed itemset for inferring their preferences, to improve the quality of initial recommendations. The key challenge of the rating elicitation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Wonbin Kweon , SeongKu Kang , Junyoung Hwang , Hwanjo Yu

In multi-objective decision planning and learning, much attention is paid to producing optimal solution sets that contain an optimal policy for every possible user preference profile. We argue that the step that follows, i.e, determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Luisa M Zintgraf , Diederik M Roijers , Sjoerd Linders , Catholijn M Jonker , Ann Nowé

The search engine evaluation research has quite a lot metrics available to it. Only recently, the question of the significance of individual metrics started being raised, as these metrics' correlations to real-world user experiences or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Pavel Sirotkin

In previous work cite{Ha98:Towards} we presented a case-based approach to eliciting and reasoning with preferences. A key issue in this approach is the definition of similarity between user preferences. We introduced the probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Vu A. Ha , Peter Haddawy , John Miyamoto

Recommender systems are expected to be assistants that help human users find relevant information automatically without explicit queries. As recommender systems evolve, increasingly sophisticated learning techniques are applied and have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhengbang Zhu , Rongjun Qin , Junjie Huang , Xinyi Dai , Yang Yu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

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

Learning of preference models from human feedback has been central to recent advances in artificial intelligence. Motivated by the cost of obtaining high-quality human annotations, we study efficient human preference elicitation for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Anusha Lalitha , Kousha Kalantari , Aniket Deshmukh , Ge Liu , Yifei Ma , Branislav Kveton

Requirements are elicited from the customer and other stakeholders through an iterative process of interviews, prototyping, and other interactive sessions. Then, requirements can be further extended, based on the analysis of the features of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Alessio Ferrari , Paola Spoletini , Sourav Debnath

We present an interface that can be leveraged to quickly and effortlessly elicit people's preferences for visual stimuli, such as photographs, visual art and screensavers, along with rich side-information about its users. We plan to employ…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Pantelis P. Analytis , Tobias Schnabel , Stefan Herzog , Daniel Barkoczi , Thorsten Joachims

Understanding the quality of a performance evaluation metric is crucial for ensuring that model outputs align with human preferences. However, it remains unclear how well each metric captures the diverse aspects of these preferences, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Genta Indra Winata , David Anugraha , Lucky Susanto , Garry Kuwanto , Derry Tanti Wijaya

App store mining has proven to be a promising technique for requirements elicitation as companies can gain valuable knowledge to maintain and evolve existing apps. However, despite first advancements in using mining techniques for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Tahira Iqbal , Norbert Seyff , Daniel Mendez Fernández

Fuzzy constraints are a popular approach to handle preferences and over-constrained problems in scenarios where one needs to be cautious, such as in medical or space applications. We consider here fuzzy constraint problems where some of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Mirco Gelain , Maria Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

Uncertainty in probabilistic classifiers predictions is a key concern when models are used to support human decision making, in broader probabilistic pipelines or when sensitive automatic decisions have to be taken. Studies have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Nicolas Posocco , Antoine Bonnefoy

Current crowdsourcing platforms provide little support for worker feedback. Workers are sometimes invited to post free text describing their experience and preferences in completing tasks. They can also use forums such as Turker Nation1 to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Mohammadreza Esfandiari , Senjuti Basu Roy , Sihem Amer-Yahia

Classical Decision Theory provides a normative framework for representing and reasoning about complex preferences. Straightforward application of this theory to automate decision making is difficult due to high elicitation cost. In response…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Vu A. Ha , Peter Haddawy

Decision theory has become widely accepted in the AI community as a useful framework for planning and decision making. Applying the framework typically requires elicitation of some form of probability and utility information. While much…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Vu A. Ha , Peter Haddawy

In this work, we examine the advantages of using multiple types of behaviour in recommendation systems. Intuitively, each user has to do some implicit actions (e.g., click) before making an explicit decision (e.g., purchase). Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Quyen Tran , Lam Tran , Linh Chu Hai , Linh Ngo Van , Khoat Than