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most citedEventChat: Implementation and user-centric evaluation of a large language model-driven conversational recommender system for exploring leisure events in an SME context

2 citations · 2 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

stat.ME2026

Statistical Foundations of LLM-based A/B Testing: A Surrogacy Framework for Human Causal Inference

Joel Persson, Mårten Schultzberg, Sebastian Ankargren

Organizations and researchers show increasing interest in using large language models (LLMs) in place of human participants in A/B tests, in the hope of experimenting faster and at…

stat.ML2026

Logging Policy Design for Off-Policy Evaluation

Connor Douglas, Joel Persson, Foster Provost

Off-policy evaluation (OPE) estimates the value of a target treatment policy (e.g., a recommender system) using data collected by a different logging policy. It enables high-stakes…

stat.ME2026

Detecting and Mitigating Group Bias in Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Joel Persson, Jurriën Bakker, Dennis Bohle +2

Heterogeneous treatment effects (HTEs) are increasingly estimated using machine learning models that produce highly personalized predictions of treatment effects. In practice, howe…

cs.CY2025

Auditing a Dutch Public Sector Risk Profiling Algorithm Using an Unsupervised Bias Detection Tool

Floris Holstege, Mackenzie Jorgensen, Kirtan Padh +5

Algorithms are increasingly used to automate or aid human decisions, yet recent research shows that these algorithms may exhibit bias across legally protected demographic groups. H…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

EventChat: Implementation and user-centric evaluation of a large language model-driven conversational recommender system for exploring leisure events in an SME context

Hannes Kunstmann, Joseph Ollier, Joel Persson +1

Large language models (LLMs) present an enormous evolution in the strategic potential of conversational recommender systems (CRS). Yet to date, research has predominantly focused u…