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In multiagent systems, we often have a set of agents each of which have a preference ordering over a set of items and one would like to know these preference orderings for various tasks, for example, data analysis, preference aggregation,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Palash Dey , Neeldhara Misra

We all have preferences when multiple choices are available. If we insist on satisfying our preferences only, we may suffer a loss due to conflicts with other people's identical selections. Such a case applies when the choice cannot be…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-02-21 Hiroaki Shinkawa , Nicolas Chauvet , Guillaume Bachelier , André Röhm , Ryoichi Horisaki , Makoto Naruse

This paper explores a new class of incomplete preferences -- termed ``connected preferences'' -- in which maximal domains of comparability are topologically connected. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for continuous…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-01 Leandro Gorno , Alessandro Rivello

In this work, we research user preferences to see a chart, table, or text given a question asked by the user. This enables us to understand when it is best to show a chart, table, or text to the user for the specific question. For this, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Reuben Luera , Ryan Rossi , Franck Dernoncourt , Alexa Siu , Sungchul Kim , Tong Yu , Ruiyi Zhang , Xiang Chen , Nedim Lipka , Zhehao Zhang , Seon Gyeom Kim , Tak Yeon Lee

Selectivity estimation - the problem of estimating the result size of queries - is a fundamental problem in databases. Accurate estimation of query selectivity involving multiple correlated attributes is especially challenging. Poor…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shohedul Hasan , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Jees Augustine , Nick Koudas , Gautam Das

Prior work on generating explanations in a planning and decision-making context has focused on providing the rationale behind an AI agent's decision making. While these methods provide the right explanations from the explainer's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Shashank Rao Marpally , Akshay Sharma , Ze Gong , Yu Zhang

Relational properties arise in many settings: relating two versions of a program that use different data representations, noninterference properties for security, etc. The main ingredient of relational verification, relating aligned pairs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Anindya Banerjee , David A. Naumann , Mohammad Nikouei

Trajectory analysis is not only about obtaining movement data, but it is also of paramount importance in understanding the pattern in which an object moves through space and time, as well as in predicting its next move. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Chanuka Don Samarasinghage , Dhruv Gulabani

The ability to make decisions and to assess potential courses of action is a corner-stone of many AI applications, and usually this requires explicit information about the decision-maker s preferences. IN many applications, preference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Ronen I. Brafman , Carmel Domshlak

Distributed linguistic representations are powerful tools for modelling the uncertainty and complexity of preference information in linguistic decision making. To provide a comprehensive perspective on the development of distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Yuzhu Wu , Zhen Zhang , Gang Kou , Hengjie Zhang , Xiangrui Chao , Cong-Cong Li , Yucheng Dong , Francisco Herrera

Effectively modeling the dynamic nature of user preferences is crucial for enhancing recommendation accuracy and fostering transparency in recommender systems. Traditional user profiling often overlooks the distinction between transitory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

We state the problem of inverse reinforcement learning in terms of preference elicitation, resulting in a principled (Bayesian) statistical formulation. This generalises previous work on Bayesian inverse reinforcement learning and allows us…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-06-30 Constantin Rothkopf , Christos Dimitrakakis

Designing proteins with desired functions or properties represents a core goal in synthetic biology and drug discovery. Recent advances in protein language models (PLMs) have enabled the generation of highly designable protein sequences,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yulin Zhang , He Cao , Zihao Jiang , Chenyi Zi , Zhipeng Zhou , Zijing Liu , Yu Li , Jia Li , Ziqi Gao

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has proven effective in complex reasoning tasks like math word problems and code generation. However, when applied to Text-to-SQL datasets, it often fails to improve performance and can even degrade it.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hanbing Liu , Haoyang Li , Xiaokang Zhang , Ruotong Chen , Haiyong Xu , Tian Tian , Qi Qi , Jing Zhang

In this work we generalize standard Decision Theory by assuming that two outcomes can also be incomparable. Two motivating scenarios show how incomparability may be helpful to represent those situations where, due to lack of information,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Piero A. Bonatti , Marco Faella , Luigi Sauro

Recent advances in preference optimization have demonstrated significant potential for improving mathematical reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). While current approaches leverage high-quality pairwise preference data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yunqiao Yang , Houxing Ren , Zimu Lu , Ke Wang , Weikang Shi , Aojun Zhou , Junting Pan , Mingjie Zhan , Hongsheng Li

In order to represent the preferences of a group of individuals, we introduce Probabilistic CP-nets (PCP-nets). PCP-nets provide a compact language for representing probability distributions over preference orderings. We argue that they are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Damien Bigot , Bruno Zanuttini , Helene Fargier , Jerome Mengin

Iterative machine learning algorithms used to power recommender systems often change people's preferences by trying to learn them. Further a recommender can better predict what a user will do by making its users more predictable. Some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hal Ashton , Matija Franklin

Conjoint experiments randomize multidimensional profiles, offering a powerful design for recovering structural preference parameters -- including marginal rates of substitution, willingness to pay, and the distribution of preferences across…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-26 Avidit Acharya , Jens Hainmueller , Yiqing Xu

Preference-based argumentation frameworks (PAFs) extend Dung's approach to abstract argumentation (AAFs) by encoding preferences over arguments. Such preferences control the transformation of attacks into defeats, and different approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Alessio Zaninotto , Bruno Yun , Nir Oren , Srdjan Vesic