[HTML][HTML] Advances and challenges in conversational recommender systems: A survey

C Gao, W Lei, X He, M de Rijke, TS Chua - AI open, 2021 - Elsevier
Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been
heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation …

The power to harm: AI assistants pave the way to unethical behavior

J Gratch, NJ Fast - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) enable new ways of exercising and experiencing
power by automating interpersonal tasks such as interviewing and hiring workers, managing …

Variational reasoning about user preferences for conversational recommendation

Z Ren, Z Tian, D Li, P Ren, L Yang, X **n… - proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) provide recommendations through
interactive conversations. CRSs typically provide recommendations through relatively …

Bayesian optimization with llm-based acquisition functions for natural language preference elicitation

D Austin, A Korikov, A Toroghi, S Sanner - Proceedings of the 18th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Designing preference elicitation (PE) methodologies that can quickly ascertain a user's top
item preferences in a cold-start setting is a key challenge for building effective and …

All roads lead to rome: Unveiling the trajectory of recommender systems across the llm era

B Chen, X Dai, H Guo, W Guo, W Liu, Y Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems (RS) are vital for managing information overload and delivering
personalized content, responding to users' diverse information needs. The emergence of …

Preference Elicitation with Soft Attributes in Interactive Recommendation

E Biyik, F Yao, Y Chow, A Haig, C Hsu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Preference elicitation plays a central role in interactive recommender systems. Most
preference elicitation approaches use either item queries that ask users to select preferred …

Discovering personalized semantics for soft attributes in recommender systems using concept activation vectors

C Göpfert, A Haig, C Hsu, Y Chow, I Vendrov… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Interactive recommender systems have emerged as a promising paradigm to overcome the
limitations of the primitive user feedback used by traditional recommender systems (eg …

Inverse active sensing: Modeling and understanding timely decision-making

D Jarrett, M Van Der Schaar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2006.14141, 2020 - arxiv.org
Evidence-based decision-making entails collecting (costly) observations about an
underlying phenomenon of interest, and subsequently committing to an (informed) decision …

Possibilistic preference elicitation by minimax regret

L Adam, S Destercke - Uncertainty in artificial intelligence, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Identifying the preferences of a given user through elicitation is a central part of multi-criteria
decision aid (MCDA) or preference learning tasks. Two classical ways to perform this …

A multi-objective supplier selection framework based on user-preferences

F Toffano, M Garraffa, Y Lin, S Prestwich… - Annals of Operations …, 2022 - Springer
This paper introduces an interactive framework to guide decision-makers in a multi-criteria
supplier selection process. State-of-the-art multi-criteria methods for supplier selection elicit …