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Bayesian optimization is an effective method for finding extrema of a black-box function. We propose a new type of Bayesian optimization for learning user preferences in high-dimensional spaces. The central assumption is that the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-17 Petrus Mikkola , Milica Todorović , Jari Järvi , Patrick Rinke , Samuel Kaski

We study decision-making with rational inattention in settings where agents have perception constraints. In such settings, inaccurate prior beliefs or models of others may lead to inattention blindness, where an agent is unaware of its…

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Predicting fine-grained interests of users with temporal behavior is important to personalization and information filtering applications. However, existing interest prediction methods are incapable of capturing the subtle degreed user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Tong Chen , Lin Wu , Yang Wang , Jun Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Xue Li

Accurate prediction of users' responses to items is one of the main aims of many computational advising applications. Examples include recommending movies, news articles, songs, jobs, clothes, books and so forth. Accurate prediction of…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-20 Baode Gao , Guangpeng Zhan , Hanzhang Wang , Yiming Wang , Shengxin Zhu

Behavioural economics provides labels for patterns in human economic behaviour. Probability weighting is one such label. It expresses a mismatch between probabilities used in a formal model of a decision (i.e. model parameters) and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-05-04 Ole Peters , Alexander Adamou , Mark Kirstein , Yonatan Berman

Assortment optimization refers to the problem of designing a slate of products to offer potential customers, such as stocking the shelves in a convenience store. The price of each product is fixed in advance, and a probabilistic choice…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , Jieming Mao , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Christos Tzamos

Recent studies have shown that recommendation systems commonly suffer from popularity bias. Popularity bias refers to the problem that popular items (i.e., frequently rated items) are recommended frequently while less popular items are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Hossein A. Rahmani , Mahdi Dehghan

A major challenge in both neuroscience and machine learning is the development of useful tools for understanding complex information processing systems. One such tool is probes, i.e., supervised models that relate features of interest to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Anna A. Ivanova , John Hewitt , Noga Zaslavsky

A fundamental component in the theoretical school choice literature is the problem a student faces in deciding which schools to apply to. Recent models have considered a set of schools of different selectiveness and a student who is unsure…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jon Kleinberg , Sigal Oren , Emily Ryu , Éva Tardos

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

Decision maker's preferences are often captured by some choice functions which are used to rank prospects. In this paper, we consider ambiguity in choice functions over a multi-attribute prospect space. Our main result is a robust…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-05-21 William B. Haskell , Wenjie Huang , Huifu Xu

Recovering and distinguishing between the strict-preference, indifference and/or indecisiveness parts of a decision maker's preferences is a challenging task but also important for testing theory and conducting welfare analysis. This paper…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-09-15 Georgios Gerasimou

Design is a factor that plays an important role in consumer purchase decisions. As the need for understanding and predicting various preferences for each customer increases along with the importance of mass customization, predicting…

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Preference tuning is a crucial process for aligning deep generative models with human preferences. This survey offers a thorough overview of recent advancements in preference tuning and the integration of human feedback. The paper is…

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Visually-aware recommender systems use visual signals present in the underlying data to model the visual characteristics of items and users' preferences towards them. In the domain of clothing recommendation, incorporating items' visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Charles Packer , Julian McAuley , Arnau Ramisa

We propose the Intuitive Reasoning Network (IRENE) - a novel neural model for intuitive psychological reasoning about agents' goals, preferences, and actions that can generalise previous experiences to new situations. IRENE combines a graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Matteo Bortoletto , Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

A reciprocal recommendation problem is one where the goal of learning is not just to predict a user's preference towards a passive item (e.g., a book), but to recommend the targeted user on one side another user from the other side such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Fabio Vitale , Nikos Parotsidis , Claudio Gentile

Humans use social context to specify preferences over behaviors, i.e. their reward functions. Yet, algorithms for inferring reward models from preference data do not take this social learning view into account. Inspired by pragmatic human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Andi Peng , Yuying Sun , Tianmin Shu , David Abel

We analyze the unintended effects that recommender systems have on the preferences of users that they are learning. We consider a contextual multi-armed bandit recommendation algorithm that learns optimal product recommendations based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Prabhat Lankireddy , Jayakrishnan Nair , D Manjunath

A site's recommendation system relies on knowledge of its users' preferences to offer relevant recommendations to them. These preferences are for attributes that comprise items and content shown on the site, and are estimated from the data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Atanu R Sinha , Tanay Anand , Paridhi Maheshwari , A V Lakshmy , Vishal Jain