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Information-Theoretic Privacy with General Distortion Constraints

Kousha Kalantari, Oliver Kosut, Lalitha Sankar

The privacy-utility tradeoff problem is formulated as determining the privacy mechanism (random mapping) that minimizes the mutual information (a metric for privacy leakage) betwee…

cs.LG2026

Optimal Design for Human Preference Elicitation

Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Anusha Lalitha, Kousha Kalantari +4

Learning of preference models from human feedback has been central to recent advances in artificial intelligence. Motivated by the cost of obtaining high-quality human annotations,…

cs.LG2025

FisherSFT: Data-Efficient Supervised Fine-Tuning of Language Models Using Information Gain

Rohan Deb, Kiran Thekumparampil, Kousha Kalantari +3

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a standard approach to adapting large language models (LLMs) to new domains. In this work, we improve the statistical efficiency of SFT by selecting…

cs.LG2024

Comparing Few to Rank Many: Active Human Preference Learning using Randomized Frank-Wolfe

Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil, Gaurush Hiranandani, Kousha Kalantari +2

We study learning of human preferences from a limited comparison feedback. This task is ubiquitous in machine learning. Its applications such as reinforcement learning from human f…

cs.IR2024

Language-Model Prior Overcomes Cold-Start Items

Shiyu Wang, Hao Ding, Yupeng Gu +3

The growth of recommender systems (RecSys) is driven by digitization and the need for personalized content in areas such as e-commerce and video streaming. The content in these sys…