4 papers
Report on The 1st Workshop on Human-Centered Proactive and Personalized Agents for Interactive Information Access at CHIIR 2026
Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Tanya Roosta +3
Interactive information access is increasingly moving beyond reactive query-response paradigms toward agentic systems that can personalize interaction, retain context, infer latent…
PROPER Agents: Proactivity Driven Personalized Agents for Advancing Knowledge Gap Navigation
Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Aditya Gupta +1
Current approaches to proactive assistance move beyond the ask-and-respond paradigm by anticipating user needs. In practice, they either burden users with clarifying questions or r…
QLENS: Towards A Quantum Perspective of Language Transformers
Aditya Gupta, Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta +1
In natural language processing, current methods for understanding Transformers are successful at identifying intermediate predictions during a model's inference. However, these app…
Efficient and Responsible Adaptation of Large Language Models for Robust and Equitable Top-k Recommendations
Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Manya Chadha +1
Conventional recommendation systems (RSs) are typically optimized to enhance performance metrics uniformly across all training samples, inadvertently overlooking the needs of diver…