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End-to-end Training for Recommendation with Language-based User Profiles
Zhaolin Gao, Joyce Zhou, Yijia Dai +1
There is a growing interest in natural language-based user profiles for recommender systems, which aims to enhance transparency and scrutability compared with embedding-based metho…
Algorithms for College Admissions Decision Support: Impacts of Policy Change and Inherent Variability
Jinsook Lee, Emma Harvey, Joyce Zhou +3
Each year, selective American colleges sort through tens of thousands of applications to identify a first-year class that displays both academic merit and diversity. In the 2023-20…
REBEL: Reinforcement Learning via Regressing Relative Rewards
Zhaolin Gao, Jonathan D. Chang, Wenhao Zhan +7
While originally developed for continuous control problems, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has emerged as the work-horse of a variety of reinforcement learning (RL) application…
Language-Based User Profiles for Recommendation
Joyce Zhou, Yijia Dai, Thorsten Joachims
Most conventional recommendation methods (e.g., matrix factorization) represent user profiles as high-dimensional vectors. Unfortunately, these vectors lack interpretability and st…