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The ability to make decisions and to assess potential courses of action is a corner-stone of many AI applications, and usually this requires explicit information about the decision-maker s preferences. IN many applications, preference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Ronen I. Brafman , Carmel Domshlak

The recent success in using human preferences to align large language models (LLMs) has significantly improved their performance in various downstream tasks, such as question answering, mathematical reasoning, and code generation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xiaoqiang Lin , Arun Verma , Zhongxiang Dai , Daniela Rus , See-Kiong Ng , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Scheduling is the task of assigning a set of scarce resources distributed over time to a set of agents, who typically have preferences about the assignments they would like to get. Due to the constrained nature of these problems, satisfying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alberto Pozanco , Francesca Mosca , Parisa Zehtabi , Daniele Magazzeni , Sarit Kraus

Learning from preference feedback is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and improving the quality of generated responses. However, existing preference learning methods rely heavily on curated data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zhaoxuan Tan , Zheng Li , Tianyi Liu , Haodong Wang , Hyokun Yun , Ming Zeng , Pei Chen , Zhihan Zhang , Yifan Gao , Ruijie Wang , Priyanka Nigam , Bing Yin , Meng Jiang

The need for Knowledge and Data Discovery Management Systems (KDDMS) that support ad hoc data mining queries has been long recognized. A significant amount of research has gone into building tightly coupled systems that integrate…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raj P. Gopalan , Tariq Nuruddin , Yudho Giri Sucahyo

Preference learning, or the task of aligning generative models to preference comparison data, has yet to reach the conceptual maturity of classification, density estimation, etc. To close this gap, this work presents a framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lily H. Zhang , Rajesh Ranganath

Preferences play a key role in determining what goals/constraints to satisfy when not all constraints can be satisfied simultaneously. In this work, we study preference-based planning in a stochastic system modeled as a Markov decision…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Abhishek Ninad Kulkarni , Jie Fu

Conversational recommendation frameworks have gained prominence as a dynamic paradigm for delivering personalized suggestions via interactive dialogues. The incorporation of advanced language understanding techniques has substantially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Guanrong Li , Kuo Tian , Jinnan Qi , Qinghan Fu , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

Human experts often struggle to select the best option from a large set of items with multiple competing objectives, a process bottlenecked by the difficulty of formalizing complex, implicit preferences. To address this, we introduce LISTEN…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Adam S. Jovine , Tinghan Ye , Francis Bahk , Jingjing Wang , Matthew Ford , David B. Shmoys , Peter I. Frazier

Human preferences are not always represented via complete linear orders: It is natural to employ partially-ordered preferences for expressing incomparable outcomes. In this work, we consider decision-making and probabilistic planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Hazhar Rahmani , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu

We consider Bayesian optimization of expensive-to-evaluate experiments that generate vector-valued outcomes over which a decision-maker (DM) has preferences. These preferences are encoded by a utility function that is not known in closed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zhiyuan Jerry Lin , Raul Astudillo , Peter I. Frazier , Eytan Bakshy

We study one-sided matching problems where $n$ agents have preferences over $m$ objects and each of them need to be assigned to at most one object. Most work on such problems assume that the agents only have ordinal preferences and usually…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Thomas Ma , Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

We study the problem of assigning objects to agents in the presence of arbitrary linear constraints when agents are allowed to be indifferent between objects. Our main contribution is the generalization of the (Extended) Probabilistic…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-03 Priyanka Shende

Reinforcement learning (RL) faces challenges in evaluating policy trajectories within intricate game tasks due to the difficulty in designing comprehensive and precise reward functions. This inherent difficulty curtails the broader…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Zichao Shen , Tianchen Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Shiqi Gao , Jianxin Li

Eliciting the preferences of a set of agents over a set of alternatives is a problem of fundamental importance in social choice theory. Prior work on this problem has studied the query complexity of preference elicitation for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Palash Dey , Neeldhara Misra

Natural interaction with recommendation and personalized search systems has received tremendous attention in recent years. We focus on the challenge of supporting people's understanding and control of these systems and explore a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Filip Radlinski , Krisztian Balog , Fernando Diaz , Lucas Dixon , Ben Wedin

Reward engineering is one of the key challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Preference-based RL effectively addresses this issue by learning from human feedback. However, it is both time-consuming and expensive to collect human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Runze Liu , Chenjia Bai , Jiafei Lyu , Shengjie Sun , Yali Du , Xiu Li

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in sequential decision-making by leveraging the highly expressive model capabilities in policy learning. A central problem for learning diffusion policies is to align the policy output with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhao Shan , Chenyou Fan , Shuang Qiu , Jiyuan Shi , Chenjia Bai

We propose a novel and efficient algorithm for the collaborative preference completion problem, which involves jointly estimating individualized rankings for a set of entities over a shared set of items, based on a limited number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-16 Suriya Gunasekar , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Joydeep Ghosh

User preference integration is of great importance in multi-objective optimization, in particular in many objective optimization. Preferences have long been considered in traditional multicriteria decision making (MCDM) which is based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Longmei Li , Iryna Yevseyeva , Vitor Basto-Fernandes , Heike Trautmann , Ning Jing , Michael Emmerich