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Publications (5)

cs.IR2023

Discovering Personalized Semantics for Soft Attributes in Recommender Systems using Concept Activation Vectors

Christina Göpfert, Alex Haig, Yinlam Chow +7

Interactive recommender systems have emerged as a promising paradigm to overcome the limitations of the primitive user feedback used by traditional recommender systems (e.g., click…

cs.CV2024

Imagen 3

Imagen-Team-Google, :, Jason Baldridge +257

We introduce Imagen 3, a latent diffusion model that generates high quality images from text prompts. We describe our quality and responsibility evaluations. Imagen 3 is preferred…

cs.IR2023

Preference Elicitation with Soft Attributes in Interactive Recommendation

Erdem Biyik, Fan Yao, Yinlam Chow +4

Preference elicitation plays a central role in interactive recommender systems. Most preference elicitation approaches use either item queries that ask users to select preferred it…

cs.CL2025

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…

cs.HC2021

Real-Time Detection of Crowded Buses via Mobile Phones

Alex Haig, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Anthony Tomasic

Automated passenger counting (APC) technology is central to many aspects of the public transit experience. APC information informs public transit planners about utilization in a pu…