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Recommender systems are essential for delivering personalized content across digital platforms by modeling user preferences and behaviors. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been adopted for prompt-based recommendation due to their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Md Aminul Islam , Ahmed Sayeed Faruk

The allocation of limited resources to a large number of potential candidates presents a pervasive challenge. In the context of ranking and selecting top candidates from heteroscedastic units, conventional methods often result in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-16 Bowen Gang , Luella Fu , Gareth James , Wenguang Sun

Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility. Prior work encoded user-item interactions or metadata into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Keyu Zhao , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

We consider the inference for the ranking of large language models (LLMs). Alignment arises as a significant challenge to mitigate hallucinations in the use of LLMs. Ranking LLMs has proven to be an effective tool to improve alignment based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Zebin Wang , Yi Han , Ethan X. Fang , Lan Wang , Junwei Lu

Existing multi-label ranking (MLR) frameworks only exploit information deduced from the bipartition of labels into positive and negative sets. Therefore, they do not benefit from ranking among positive labels, which is the novel MLR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 V. Bugra Yesilkaynak , Emine Dari , Alican Mertan , Gozde Unal

Evaluating the scientific discovery capabilities of large language model based agents, particularly how they cope with varying environmental complexity and utilize prior knowledge, requires specialized benchmarks currently lacking in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yimeng Chen , Piotr Piȩkos , Mateusz Ostaszewski , Firas Laakom , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the recommender system paradigm by enabling users to express preferences and receive recommendations through conversations. Yet, aligning LLMs to the recommendation task remains challenging:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yaochen Zhu , Harald Steck , Dawen Liang , Yinhan He , Vito Ostuni , Jundong Li , Nathan Kallus

Many latent (factorized) models have been proposed for recommendation tasks like collaborative filtering and for ranking tasks like document or image retrieval and annotation. Common to all those methods is that during inference the items…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Jason Weston , John Blitzer

Ranking and comparing items is crucial for collecting information about preferences in many areas, from marketing to politics. The Mallows rank model is among the most successful approaches to analyse rank data, but its computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-28 Valeria Vitelli , Øystein Sørensen , Marta Crispino , Arnoldo Frigessi , Elja Arjas

Hallucination remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is a key alignment framework, existing approaches often rely heavily on costly external evaluators for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuanshuai Li , Yuping Yan , Jirui Han , Fei Ming , Lingjuan Lv , Yaochu Jin

Reinforcement Learning (RL) traditionally relies on scalar reward signals, limiting its ability to leverage the rich semantic knowledge often available in real-world tasks. In contrast, humans learn efficiently by combining numerical…

We address the challenge of building domain-specific knowledge models for industrial use cases, where labelled data and taxonomic information is initially scarce. Our focus is on inductive link prediction models as a basis for practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Felix Hamann , Adrian Ulges , Maurice Falk

Rankings derived from pairwise comparisons are central to many economic and computational systems. In the context of large language models (LLMs), rankings are typically constructed from human preference data and presented as leaderboards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Angel Rodrigo Avelar Menendez , Yufeng Liu , Xiaowu Dai

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated judges and synthetic labelers, especially in low-label settings. Yet these systems are stochastic and often overconfident, which makes deployment decisions difficult when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Maxim Khomiakov , Jes Frellsen

Peer review is essential for scientific progress but faces growing challenges due to increasing submission volumes and reviewer fatigue. Existing automated review approaches struggle with factual accuracy, rating consistency, and analytical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sihang Zeng , Kai Tian , Kaiyan Zhang , Yuru wang , Junqi Gao , Runze Liu , Sa Yang , Jingxuan Li , Xinwei Long , Jiaheng Ma , Biqing Qi , Bowen Zhou

Personalizing the outputs of large language models (LLMs) to align with individual user preferences is an active research area. However, previous studies have mainly focused on classification or ranking tasks and have not considered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Koki Ryu , Hitomi Yanaka

Peer review relies on substantive, evidence-based questions, yet current LLMs generate surface-level queries that perform worse than human reviewer questions in expert evaluation. To address this gap, we curate a high-quality dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Karun Sharma , Vidushee Vats , Shengzhi Li , Yuxiang Wang , Zhongtian Sun , Prayag Tiwari

This paper explores a top-down approach to automating incremental advances in machine learning research through component-level innovation, facilitated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Our framework systematically generates novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shervin Ardeshir

Identification of appropriate supporting evidence is critical to the success of scientific fact checking. However, existing approaches rely on off-the-shelf Information Retrieval algorithms that rank documents based on relevance rather than…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xingyu Deng , Xi Wang , Mark Stevenson

Deciding which large language model (LLM) to use is a complex challenge. Pairwise ranking has emerged as a new method for evaluating human preferences for LLMs. This approach entails humans evaluating pairs of model outputs based on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Roland Daynauth , Christopher Clarke , Krisztian Flautner , Lingjia Tang , Jason Mars