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Matrix factorization has found incredible success and widespread application as a collaborative filtering based approach to recommendations. Unfortunately, incorporating additional sources of evidence, especially ones that are incomplete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Nitish Gupta , Sameer Singh

Recommender systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience by providing personalized suggestions based on user preferences. Traditional approaches often rely on explicit numerical ratings or assume access to fully ranked lists of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bahar Boroomand , James R. Wright

Aggregating agent preferences into a collective decision is an important step in many problems (e.g., hiring, elections, peer review) and across areas of computer science (e.g., reinforcement learning, recommender systems). As Social Choice…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Leonardo Matone , Ben Abramowitz , Ben Armstrong , Avinash Balakrishnan , Nicholas Mattei

In logic programming under the answer set semantics, preferences on rules are used to choose which of the conflicting rules are applied. Many interesting semantics have been proposed. Brewka and Eiter's Principle I expresses the basic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Alexander Šimko

Mining association rules is a popular and well researched method for discovering interesting relations between variables in large databases. A practical problem is that at medium to low support values often a large number of frequent…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Michael Hahsler , Christian Buchta , Kurt Hornik

CP-nets represent the dominant existing framework for expressing qualitative conditional preferences between alternatives, and are used in a variety of areas including constraint solving. Over the last fifteen years, a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Cristina Cornelio , Andrea Loreggia , Vijay Saraswat

In multi-objective decision planning and learning, much attention is paid to producing optimal solution sets that contain an optimal policy for every possible user preference profile. We argue that the step that follows, i.e, determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Luisa M Zintgraf , Diederik M Roijers , Sjoerd Linders , Catholijn M Jonker , Ann Nowé

Effective integration of AI agents into daily life requires them to understand and adapt to individual human preferences, particularly in collaborative roles. Although recent studies on embodied intelligence have advanced significantly,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Manjie Xu , Xinyi Yang , Wei Liang , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu

Social choice becomes easier on restricted preference domains such as single-peaked, single-crossing, and Euclidean preferences. Many impossibility theorems disappear, the structure makes it easier to reason about preferences, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Edith Elkind , Martin Lackner , Dominik Peters

Machine learning systems embed preferences either in training losses or through post-processing of calibrated predictions. Applying information design methods from Strack and Yang (2024), this paper provides decision problem agnostic…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-27 Joshua S. Gans

Actively inferring user preferences, for example by asking good questions, is important for any human-facing decision-making system. Active inference allows such systems to adapt and personalize themselves to nuanced individual preferences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wasu Top Piriyakulkij , Volodymyr Kuleshov , Kevin Ellis

Preferences, fundamental in all forms of strategic behavior and collective decision-making, in their raw form, are an abstract ordering on a set of alternatives. Agents, we assume, revise their preferences as they gain more information…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hans Riess , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Michael C. Munger , Robert Ghrist , Zachary I. Bell , Michael M. Zavlanos

We look at preference change arising out of an interaction between two elements: the first is an initial preference ranking encoding a pre-existing attitude; the second element is new preference information signaling input from an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Adrian Haret , Johannes P. Wallner

The design of optimal auctions is a problem of interest in economics, game theory and computer science. Despite decades of effort, strategyproof, revenue-maximizing auction designs are still not known outside of restricted settings.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Neehar Peri , Michael J. Curry , Samuel Dooley , John P. Dickerson

We study here preference revision, considering both the monotonic case where the original preferences are preserved and the nonmonotonic case where the new preferences may override the original ones. We use a relational framework in which…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jan Chomicki , Joyce Song

Keyword search against structured databases has become a popular topic of investigation, since many users find structured queries too hard to express, and enjoy the freedom of a ``Google-like'' query box into which search terms can be…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Arnab Nandi , H V Jagadish

Haskell is a popular choice for hosting deeply embedded languages. A recurring challenge for these embeddings is how to seamlessly integrate user defined algebraic data types. In particular, one important, convenient, and expressive feature…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Trevor L. McDonell , Joshua D. Meredith , Gabriele Keller

This paper introduces a novel stochastic control framework to enhance the capabilities of automated investment managers, or robo-advisors, by accurately inferring clients' investment preferences from past activities. Our approach leverages…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Haoyang Cao , Zhengqi Wu , Renyuan Xu

We develop a novel framework that aims to create bridges between the computational social choice and the database management communities. This framework enriches the tasks currently supported in computational social choice with relational…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Benny Kimelfeld , Phokion G. Kolaitis , Julia Stoyanovich

We present a unified logical framework for representing and reasoning about both probability quantitative and qualitative preferences in probability answer set programming, called probability answer set optimization programs. The proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Emad Saad