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Personal attributes represent structured information about a person, such as their hobbies, pets, family, likes and dislikes. We introduce the tasks of extracting and inferring personal attributes from human-human dialogue, and analyze the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Zhilin Wang , Xuhui Zhou , Rik Koncel-Kedziorski , Alex Marin , Fei Xia

As AI-based systems increasingly impact many areas of our lives, auditing these systems for fairness is an increasingly high-stakes problem. Traditional group fairness metrics can miss discrimination against individuals and are difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Krystal Maughan , Ivoline C. Ngong , Joseph P. Near

Community based question answering services have arisen as a popular knowledge sharing pattern for netizens. With abundant interactions among users, individuals are capable of obtaining satisfactory information. However, it is not effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Zheqian Chen , Ben Gao , Huimin Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Deng Cai

Users often omit essential details in their requests to LLM-based agents, resulting in under-specified inputs for tool use. This poses a fundamental challenge for tool-augmented agents, as API execution typically requires complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yejin Yoon , Minseo Kim , Taeuk Kim

Providing users with alternatives to choose from is an essential component in many online platforms, making the accurate prediction of choice vital to their success. A renewed interest in learning choice models has led to significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Nir Rosenfeld , Kojin Oshiba , Yaron Singer

Recommender systems are central to digital platforms, yet they face a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and explainability. Black-box models achieve strong performance but lack interpretability needed for trust and adoption. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuyan Wang , Pan Li , Minmin Chen

Various structured argumentation frameworks utilize preferences as part of their standard inference procedure to enable reasoning with preferences. In this paper, we consider an inverse of the standard reasoning problem, seeking to identify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Quratul-ain Mahesar , Nir Oren , Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

With the availability of large databases and recent improvements in deep learning methodology, the performance of AI systems is reaching or even exceeding the human level on an increasing number of complex tasks. Impressive examples of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Wojciech Samek , Thomas Wiegand , Klaus-Robert Müller

Recommender systems are important to help users select relevant and personalised information over massive amounts of data available. We propose an unified framework called Preference Network (PN) that jointly models various types of domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Tran The Truyen , Dinh Q. Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

Human society had a long history of suffering from cognitive biases leading to social prejudices and mass injustice. The prevalent existence of cognitive biases in large volumes of historical data can pose a threat of being manifested as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Procheta Sen , Debasis Ganguly

Prescriptive AI represents a transformative shift in decision-making, offering causal insights and actionable recommendations. Despite its huge potential, enterprise adoption often faces several challenges. The first challenge is caused by…

As algorithmic decision-making systems become more prevalent in society, ensuring the fairness of these systems is becoming increasingly important. Whilst there has been substantial research in building fair algorithmic decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Madeleine Waller , Odinaldo Rodrigues , Oana Cocarascu

Aligning large language models (LLMs) typically aim to reflect general human values and behaviors, but they often fail to capture the unique characteristics and preferences of individual users. To address this gap, we introduce the concept…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Minjun Zhu , Yixuan Weng , Linyi Yang , Yue Zhang

The outcomes of elections, product sales, and the structure of social connections are all determined by the choices individuals make when presented with a set of options, so understanding the factors that contribute to choice is crucial. Of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Kiran Tomlinson , Austin R. Benson

Machine learning methods allow us to make recommendations to users in applications across fields including entertainment, dating, and commerce, by exploiting similarities in users' interaction patterns. However, in domains that demand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mónica Ribero , Jette Henderson , Sinead Williamson , Haris Vikalo

Humans make complex inferences on faces, ranging from objective properties (gender, ethnicity, expression, age, identity, etc) to subjective judgments (facial attractiveness, trustworthiness, sociability, friendliness, etc). While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Amanda Song , Linjie Li , Chad Atalla , Garrison Cottrell

Aligning language models with human preferences presents significant challenges, particularly in achieving personalization without incurring excessive computational costs. Existing methods rely on reward signals and additional annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiaotian Zhang , Ruizhe Chen , Yang Feng , Zuozhu Liu

With the recent trend of applying machine learning in every aspect of human life, it is important to incorporate fairness into the core of the predictive algorithms. We address the problem of predicting the quality of public speeches while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Rupam Acharyya , Shouman Das , Ankani Chattoraj , Md. Iftekhar Tanveer

There is a growing body of work on learning from human feedback to align various aspects of machine learning systems with human values and preferences. We consider the setting of fairness in content moderation, in which human feedback is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Emilia Agis Lerner , Florian E. Dorner , Elliott Ash , Naman Goel

Effective long-term memory in conversational AI requires synthesizing information across multiple sessions. However, current systems place excessive reasoning burden on response generation, making performance significantly dependent on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sangyeop Kim , Yohan Lee , Sanghwa Kim , Hyunjong Kim , Sungzoon Cho