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Preference learning from human feedback has the ability to align generative models with the needs of end-users. Human feedback is costly and time-consuming to obtain, which creates demand for data-efficient query selection methods. This…

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Despite Flow Matching and diffusion models having emerged as powerful generative paradigms for continuous variables such as images and videos, their application to high-dimensional discrete data, such as language, is still limited. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Itai Gat , Tal Remez , Neta Shaul , Felix Kreuk , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Gabriel Synnaeve , Yossi Adi , Yaron Lipman

This study investigates human-computer interface generation based on diffusion models to overcome the limitations of traditional template-based design and fixed rule-driven methods. It first analyzes the key challenges of interface…

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Margin-based optimization is fundamental to improving generalization and robustness in classification tasks. In the context of reward model learning from preferences within Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), existing methods…

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Reward models (RMs) are crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. They are trained using preference datasets where each example consists of one input prompt, two responses, and a preference label. As curating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiaming Shen , Ran Xu , Yennie Jun , Zhen Qin , Tianqi Liu , Carl Yang , Yi Liang , Simon Baumgartner , Michael Bendersky

The wayward quality of continuous prompts stresses the importance of their interpretability as unexpected and unpredictable behaviors appear following training, especially in the context of large language models automating people-sensitive…

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Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

Existing multimodal generative models fall short as qualified design copilots, as they often struggle to generate imaginative outputs once instructions are less detailed or lack the ability to maintain consistency with the provided…

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Memory units have been widely used to enrich the capabilities of deep networks on capturing long-term dependencies in reasoning and prediction tasks, but little investigation exists on deep generative models (DGMs) which are good at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Generative user interfaces (UIs) create new opportunities to adapt interfaces to individual users on demand, but personalization remains difficult because desirable UI properties are subjective, hard to articulate, and costly to infer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi-Hao Peng , Samarth Das , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jason Wu

Personalized image generation, where reference images of one or more subjects are used to generate their image according to a scene description, has gathered significant interest in the community. However, such generated images suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Parul Gupta , Abhinav Dhall , Thanh-Toan Do

Recommender systems can automatically recommend users with items that they probably like. The goal of them is to model the user-item interaction by effectively representing the users and items. Existing methods have primarily learned the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xue Dong , Xuemeng Song , Na Zheng , Yinwei Wei , Zhongzhou Zhao

Generative query suggestion using large language models offers a powerful way to enhance conversational systems, but aligning outputs with nuanced user preferences remains a critical challenge. To address this, we introduce a multi-stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Junhao Yin , Haolin Wang , Peng Bao , Ju Xu , Yongliang Wang

Predicting the next interaction of a short-term interaction session is a challenging task in session-based recommendation. Almost all existing works rely on item transition patterns, and neglect the impact of user historical sessions while…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yitong Pang , Lingfei Wu , Qi Shen , Yiming Zhang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Ethan Chang , Bo Long , Jian Pei

Prompt learning has demonstrated promising results in fine-tuning pre-trained multimodal models. However, the performance improvement is limited when applied to more complex and fine-grained tasks. The reason is that most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Weicai Yan , Wang Lin , Zirun Guo , Ye Wang , Fangming Feng , Xiaoda Yang , Zehan Wang , Tao Jin

The dynamics of temporal networks lie in the continuous interactions between nodes, which exhibit the dynamic node preferences with time elapsing. The challenges of mining temporal networks are thus two-fold: the dynamic structure of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Tongya Zheng , Zunlei Feng , Yu Wang , Chengchao Shen , Mingli Song , Xingen Wang , Xinyu Wang , Chun Chen , Hao Xu

Personalized news recommendation is highly time-sensitive, as user interests are often driven by emerging events, trending topics, and shifting real-world contexts. These dynamics make it essential to model not only users' long-term…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhiyong Cheng , Yike Jin , Zhijie Zhang , Huilin Chen , Zhangling Duan , Meng Wang

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has been widely adopted for large language model alignment due to its simple training procedure and lack of an explicit reward model. However, in iterative DPO, when the policy model from the previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Lingling Fu , Yongfu Xu

Generative recommendation models often struggle with two key challenges: (1) the superficial integration of collaborative signals, and (2) the decoupled fusion of multimodal features. These limitations hinder the creation of a truly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yuzhen Lin , Hongyi Chen , Xuanjing Chen , Shaowen Wang , Ivonne Xu , Dongming Jiang

For visual content generation, discrepancies between user intentions and the generated content have been a longstanding problem. This discrepancy arises from two main factors. First, user intentions are inherently complex, with subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yi Cheng , Ziwei Xu , Dongyun Lin , Harry Cheng , Yongkang Wong , Ying Sun , Joo Hwee Lim , Mohan Kankanhalli