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Endowing dialogue systems with personas is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, this problem is still far from well explored due to the difficulties of both embodying personalities in natural languages and the…

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Generating high-quality stories spanning thousands of tokens requires competency across a variety of skills, from tracking plot and character arcs to keeping a consistent and engaging style. Due to the difficulty of sourcing labeled…

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Personalized search is a problem where models benefit from learning user preferences from per-user historical interaction data. The inferred preferences enable personalized ranking models to improve the relevance of documents for users.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Sheshera Mysore , Garima Dhanania , Kishor Patil , Surya Kallumadi , Andrew McCallum , Hamed Zamani

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), developing effective critic modules for precise guidance has become crucial yet challenging. In this paper, we initially demonstrate that supervised fine-tuning for building critic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Qiaoyu Tang , Hao Xiang , Le Yu , Bowen Yu , Hongyu Lin , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Junyang Lin

Most existing works on dialog systems only consider conversation content while neglecting the personality of the user the bot is interacting with, which begets several unsolved issues. In this paper, we present a personalized end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Liangchen Luo , Wenhao Huang , Qi Zeng , Zaiqing Nie , Xu Sun

Designing effective prompts can empower LLMs to understand user preferences and provide recommendations with intent comprehension and knowledge utilization capabilities. Nevertheless, recent studies predominantly concentrate on task-wise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenyu Mao , Jiancan Wu , Weijian Chen , Chongming Gao , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

Recent research has increasingly focused on evaluating large language models' (LLMs) alignment with diverse human values and preferences, particularly for open-ended tasks like story generation. Traditional evaluation metrics rely heavily…

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Interpretable explanations for recommender systems and other machine learning models are crucial to gain user trust. Prior works that have focused on paths connecting users and items in a heterogeneous network have several limitations, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Azin Ghazimatin , Oana Balalau , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Reviews contain rich information about product characteristics and user interests and thus are commonly used to boost recommender system performance. Specifically, previous work show that jointly learning to perform review generation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhouhang Xie , Julian McAuley , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Personalized image preference assessment aims to evaluate an individual user's image preferences by relying only on a small set of reference images as prior information. Existing methods mainly focus on general preference assessment,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Shengqi Xu , Xinpeng Zhou , Yabo Zhang , Ming Liu , Tao Liang , Tianyu Zhang , Yalong Bai , Zuxuan Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to capture user's current intentions and provide recommendations through real-time multi-turn conversational interactions. As a human-machine interactive system, it is essential for CRS to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shuokai Li , Yongchun Zhu , Ruobing Xie , Zhenwei Tang , Zhao Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He , Hui Xiong

Understanding the world through models is a fundamental goal of scientific research. While large language model (LLM) based approaches show promise in automating scientific discovery, they often overlook the importance of criticizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Michael Y. Li , Vivek Vajipey , Noah D. Goodman , Emily B. Fox

Personalization plays a critical role in numerous language tasks and applications, since users with the same requirements may prefer diverse outputs based on their individual interests. This has led to the development of various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jiongnan Liu , Yutao Zhu , Shuting Wang , Xiaochi Wei , Erxue Min , Yu Lu , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Zhicheng Dou

Narrative, and in particular storytelling, is an important part of the human experience. Consequently, computational systems that can reason about narrative can be more effective communicators, entertainers, educators, and trainers. One of…

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Language models (LMs) have recently shown remarkable performance on reasoning tasks by explicitly generating intermediate inferences, e.g., chain-of-thought prompting. However, these intermediate inference steps may be inappropriate…

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Recently, rubrics have been used to guide LLM judges in capturing subjective, nuanced, multi-dimensional human preferences, and have been extended from evaluation to reward signals for reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). However, rubric…

Argument generation is a challenging task in natural language processing, which requires rigorous reasoning and proper content organization. Inspired by recent chain-of-thought prompting that breaks down a complex task into intermediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Yu Yin

There is a growing interest in developing automated agents that can work alongside humans. In addition to completing the assigned task, such an agent will undoubtedly be expected to behave in a manner that is preferred by the human. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Utkarsh Soni , Nupur Thakur , Sarath Sreedharan , Lin Guan , Mudit Verma , Matthew Marquez , Subbarao Kambhampati

Personalized news recommendation aims to assist users in finding news articles that align with their interests, which plays a pivotal role in mitigating users' information overload problem. Although many recent works have been studied for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yunyong Ko , Seongeun Ryu , Sang-Wook Kim

While generative AI enables high-fidelity UI generation from text prompts, users struggle to articulate design intent and evaluate or refine results-creating gulfs of execution and evaluation. To understand the information needed for UI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Seokhyeon Park , Soohyun Lee , Eugene Choi , Hyunwoo Kim , Minkyu Kweon , Yumin Song , Jinwook Seo