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Despite the impressive performance of LLM-powered agents, their adoption for Electronic Health Record (EHR) data access remains limited by the absence of benchmarks that adequately capture real-world clinical data access flows. In practice,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gyubok Lee , Woosog Chay , Heeyoung Kwak , Yeong Hwa Kim , Haanju Yoo , Oksoon Jeong , Meong Hi Son , Edward Choi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly serving as personal assistants, where users share complex and diverse preferences over extended interactions. However, assessing how well LLMs can follow these preferences in realistic,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qianyun Guo , Yibo Li , Yue Liu , Bryan Hooi

As AI becomes more personal, e.g., Agentic AI, there is an increasing need for personalizing models for various use cases. Personalized federated learning (PFL) enables each client to collaboratively leverage other clients' knowledge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minhyuk Seo , Taeheon Kim , Hankook Lee , Jonghyun Choi , Tinne Tuytelaars

Sequential recommendation systems predict the next interaction item based on users' past interactions, aligning recommendations with individual preferences. Leveraging the strengths of Large Language Models (LLMs) in knowledge comprehension…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaoyu Kong , Jiancan Wu , An Zhang , Leheng Sheng , Hui Lin , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

Although LLM-based agents have attracted significant attention in domains such as software engineering and machine learning research, their role in advancing combinatorial optimization (CO) remains relatively underexplored. This gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Weiwei Sun , Shengyu Feng , Shanda Li , Yiming Yang

As large language models (LLMs) demonstrate increasingly advanced capabilities, aligning their behaviors with human values and preferences becomes crucial for their wide adoption. While previous research focuses on general alignment to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Shujin Wu , May Fung , Cheng Qian , Jeonghwan Kim , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Heng Ji

Millions of people take surveys every day, from market polls and academic studies to medical questionnaires and customer feedback forms. These datasets capture valuable insights, but their scale and structure present a unique challenge for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Duc-Hai Nguyen , Vijayakumar Nanjappan , Barry O'Sullivan , Hoang D. Nguyen

Recent advances have made long-form report-generating systems widely available. This has prompted evaluation frameworks that use LLM-as-judge protocols and claim verification, along with meta-evaluation frameworks that seek to validate…

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in various tasks, including personalized recommendations. Existing evaluation methods often focus on rating prediction, relying on regression errors between actual and predicted ratings. However, user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhaoxuan Tan , Zinan Zeng , Qingkai Zeng , Zhenyu Wu , Zheyuan Liu , Fengran Mo , Meng Jiang

User preferences are increasingly used to personalize Large Language Model (LLM) responses, yet how to reliably leverage preference signals for answer generation remains under-explored. In practice, preferences can be noisy, incomplete, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Tianyu Zhao , Siqi Li , Yasser Shoukry , Salma Elmalaki

Instructional documents are rich sources of knowledge for completing various tasks, yet their unique challenges in conversational question answering (CQA) have not been thoroughly explored. Existing benchmarks have primarily focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Shiwei Wu , Chen Zhang , Yan Gao , Qimeng Wang , Tong Xu , Yao Hu , Enhong Chen

To assist users in complex tasks, LLMs generate plans: step-by-step instructions towards a goal. While alignment methods aim to ensure LLM plans are helpful, they train (RLHF) or evaluate (ChatbotArena) on what users prefer, assuming this…

As LLMs have become increasingly popular, they have been used in almost every field. But as the application for LLMs expands from generic fields to narrow, focused science domains, there exists an ever-increasing gap in ways to evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Anurag Acharya , Sai Munikoti , Aaron Hellinger , Sara Smith , Sridevi Wagle , Sameera Horawalavithana

Personalization and contextual coherence are two essential components in building effective persona-grounded dialogue systems. These aspects play a crucial role in enhancing user engagement and ensuring responses are more relevant and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Saleh Afzoon , MohammadHossein Ahmadi , Usman Naseem , Amin Beheshti

Personalization in social robotics is critical for fostering effective human-robot interactions, yet systems often face the cold start problem, where initial user preferences or characteristics are unavailable. This paper proposes a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hamed Rahimi , Jeanne Cattoni , Meriem Beghili , Mouad Abrini , Mahdi Khoramshahi , Maribel Pino , Mohamed Chetouani

Character-based dialogue (aka role-playing) enables users to freely customize characters for interaction, which often relies on LLMs, raising the need to evaluate LLMs' character customization capability. However, existing benchmarks fail…

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in handling general knowledge tasks, yet they struggle with user-specific personalization, such as understanding individual emotions, writing styles, and preferences. Personalized Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiahong Liu , Zexuan Qiu , Zhongyang Li , Quanyu Dai , Wenhao Yu , Jieming Zhu , Minda Hu , Menglin Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Irwin King

Pointer analysis has been studied for over four decades. However, existing frameworks continue to suffer from the propagation of incorrect facts. A major limitation stems from their insufficient semantic understanding of code, resulting in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Baijun Cheng , Kailong Wang , Ling Shi , Haoyu Wang , Yao Guo , Ding Li , Xiangqun Chen

Effective personalized question answering (PQA) in language models requires grounding responses in the user's underlying intent, where intent refers to the implicit ``why'' behind a query beyond its explicit wording. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Maryam Amirizaniani , Benjamin Charles Germain Lee , Jevin West , Nicholas Weber

\Ac{LFQA} aims to generate lengthy answers to complex questions. This scenario presents great flexibility as well as significant challenges for evaluation. Most evaluations rely on deterministic metrics that depend on string or n-gram…

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