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Large language models are increasingly used as personal assistants, yet most lack a persistent user model, forcing users to repeatedly restate preferences across sessions. We propose Vector-Adapted Retrieval Scoring (VARS), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuren Hao , Shuhaib Mehri , ChengXiang Zhai , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

The growth of recommender systems (RecSys) is driven by digitization and the need for personalized content in areas such as e-commerce and video streaming. The content in these systems often changes rapidly and therefore they constantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shiyu Wang , Hao Ding , Yupeng Gu , Sergul Aydore , Kousha Kalantari , Branislav Kveton

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promising results discovering models that are both accurate and fast. For NAS, training a one-shot model has become a popular strategy to rank the relative quality of different architectures (child…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jiahui Yu , Pengchong Jin , Hanxiao Liu , Gabriel Bender , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Mingxing Tan , Thomas Huang , Xiaodan Song , Ruoming Pang , Quoc Le

Realistic use of neural networks often requires adhering to multiple constraints on latency, energy and memory among others. A popular approach to find fitting networks is through constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS), however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Niv Nayman , Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Data sparsity and cold-start problems are persistent challenges in recommendation systems. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is a promising solution that utilizes knowledge from the source domain to improve the recommendation performance in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yanyu Chen , Yao Yao , Wai Kin Victor Chan , Li Xiao , Kai Zhang , Liang Zhang , Yun Ye

Utilizing robots for autonomous target search in complex and unknown environments can greatly improve the efficiency of search and rescue missions. However, existing methods have shown inadequate performance due to hardware platform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hao Zhang , Yifei Wang , Weifan Zhang , Yu Wang , Haoyao Chen

Traditional neural architecture search (NAS) has a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing network architectures for various tasks. In this paper, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , Rongrong Ji , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

A huge amount of user generated content related to movies is created with the popularization of web 2.0. With these continues exponential growth of data, there is an inevitable need for recommender systems as people find it difficult to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Lasitha Uyangoda , Supunmali Ahangama , Tharindu Ranasinghe

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammmadmahdi Maheri , Reza Abdollahzadeh , Bardia Mohammadi , Mina Rafiei , Jafar Habibi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained significant traction in automating the design of neural networks. To reduce search time, differentiable architecture search (DAS) reframes the traditional paradigm of discrete candidate sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaoyun Liu , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Yuqing Zhao , Penghui Ruan

Deep learning models require extensive architecture design exploration and hyperparameter optimization to perform well on a given task. The exploration of the model design space is often made by a human expert, and optimized using a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Catherine Wong , Andrea Gesmundo

Identifying the dynamic precompensator that renders a nonlinear control system feedback linearizable is a challenging problem. Researchers have explored the problem -- dynamic feedback linearization -- and produced existence conditions and…

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Modern recommendation systems ought to benefit by probing for and learning from delayed feedback. Research has tended to focus on learning from a user's response to a single recommendation. Such work, which leverages methods of supervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zheqing Zhu , Benjamin Van Roy

We introduce Green-NAS, a multi-objective NAS (neural architecture search) framework designed for low-resource environments using weather forecasting as a case study. By adhering to 'Green AI' principles, the framework explicitly minimizes…

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

Recommendation systems help users find matched items based on their previous behaviors. Personalized recommendation becomes challenging in the absence of historical user-item interactions, a practical problem for startups known as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuansheng Wu , Huachi Zhou , Yucheng Shi , Wenlin Yao , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu

Predictor-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) employs an architecture performance predictor to improve the sample efficiency. However, predictor-based NAS suffers from the severe ``cold-start'' problem, since a large amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Junbo Zhao , Xuefei Ning , Enshu Liu , Binxin Ru , Zixuan Zhou , Tianchen Zhao , Chen Chen , Jiajin Zhang , Qingmin Liao , Yu Wang

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is a promising paradigm inspired by transfer learning to solve the cold-start problem in recommender systems. Existing state-of-the-art CDR methods train an explicit mapping function to transfer the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Guohang Zeng , Qian Zhang , Guangquan Zhang , Jie Lu

The Neural Architecture Search (NAS) problem is typically formulated as a graph search problem where the goal is to learn the optimal operations over edges in order to maximise a graph-level global objective. Due to the large architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Vasco Lopes , Fabio Maria Carlucci , Pedro M Esperança , Marco Singh , Victor Gabillon , Antoine Yang , Hang Xu , Zewei Chen , Jun Wang

Providing long-range forecasts is a fundamental challenge in time series modeling, which is only compounded by the challenge of having to form such forecasts when a time series has never previously been observed. The latter challenge is the…

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