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20172026
most citedMulti-Gradient Descent for Multi-Objective Recommender Systems

23 citations · 56 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CL2026

Learning to Learn from Language Feedback with Social Meta-Learning

Jonathan Cook, Diego Antognini, Martin Klissarov +2

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle to learn from corrective feedback within a conversational context. They are rarely proactive in soliciting this feedback, even when face…

cs.AI2026

Improving Interactive In-Context Learning from Natural Language Feedback

Martin Klissarov, Jonathan Cook, Diego Antognini +5

Adapting one's thought process based on corrective feedback is an essential ability in human learning, particularly in collaborative settings. In contrast, the current large langua…

cs.AI2026

Position: Introspective Experience from Conversational Environments as a Path to Better Learning

Claudiu Cristian Musat, Jackson Tolins, Diego Antognini +3

Current approaches to AI training treat reasoning as an emergent property of scale. We argue instead that robust reasoning emerges from linguistic self-reflection, itself internali…

cs.CV2025

InkFM: A Foundational Model for Full-Page Online Handwritten Note Understanding

Anastasiia Fadeeva, Vincent Coriou, Diego Antognini +2

Tablets and styluses are increasingly popular for taking notes. To optimize this experience and ensure a smooth and efficient workflow, it's important to develop methods for accura…

cs.CL2024

Paraphrase and Solve: Exploring and Exploiting the Impact of Surface Form on Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Yue Zhou, Yada Zhu, Diego Antognini +2

This paper studies the relationship between the surface form of a mathematical problem and its solvability by large language models. We find that subtle alterations in the surface…

cs.CL2022

Interlock-Free Multi-Aspect Rationalization for Text Classification

Shuangqi Li, Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Explanation is important for text classification tasks. One prevalent type of explanation is rationales, which are text snippets of input text that suffice to yield the prediction…

cs.LG2022

Textual Explanations and Critiques in Recommendation Systems

Diego Antognini

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms have become ubiquitous. Although they offer a wide range of benefits, their adoption in decision-critical fields is limited…

cs.CL2022

Assistive Recipe Editing through Critiquing

Diego Antognini, Shuyang Li, Boi Faltings +1

There has recently been growing interest in the automatic generation of cooking recipes that satisfy some form of dietary restrictions, thanks in part to the availability of online…

cs.IR2022

Positive and Negative Critiquing for VAE-based Recommenders

Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Providing explanations for recommended items allows users to refine the recommendations by critiquing parts of the explanations. As a result of revisiting critiquing from the persp…

cs.IR2021

Multi-Step Critiquing User Interface for Recommender Systems

Diana Petrescu, Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Recommendations with personalized explanations have been shown to increase user trust and perceived quality and help users make better decisions. Moreover, such explanations allow…

cs.CL2021

Rationalization through Concepts

Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Automated predictions require explanations to be interpretable by humans. One type of explanation is a rationale, i.e., a selection of input features such as relevant text snippets…

cs.IR2021

Fast Multi-Step Critiquing for VAE-based Recommender Systems

Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Recent studies have shown that providing personalized explanations alongside recommendations increases trust and perceived quality. Furthermore, it gives users an opportunity to re…

cs.IR2021

Recommending Burgers based on Pizza Preferences: Addressing Data Sparsity with a Product of Experts

Martin Milenkoski, Diego Antognini, Claudiu Musat

In this paper, we describe a method to tackle data sparsity and create recommendations in domains with limited knowledge about user preferences. We expand the variational autoencod…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

An Enhanced MeanSum Method For Generating Hotel Multi-Review Summarizations

Saibo Geng, Diego Antognini

Multi-document summaritazion is the process of taking multiple texts as input and producing a short summary text based on the content of input texts. Up until recently, multi-docum…

cs.IR2020★ 3 cited

Modeling Online Behavior in Recommender Systems: The Importance of Temporal Context

Milena Filipovic, Blagoj Mitrevski, Diego Antognini +3

Recommender systems research tends to evaluate model performance offline and on randomly sampled targets, yet the same systems are later used to predict user behavior sequentially…

cs.LG2020★ 6 cited

Addressing Fairness in Classification with a Model-Agnostic Multi-Objective Algorithm

Kirtan Padh, Diego Antognini, Emma Lejal Glaude +2

The goal of fairness in classification is to learn a classifier that does not discriminate against groups of individuals based on sensitive attributes, such as race and gender. One…

cs.CL2020

Interacting with Explanations through Critiquing

Diego Antognini, Claudiu Musat, Boi Faltings

Using personalized explanations to support recommendations has been shown to increase trust and perceived quality. However, to actually obtain better recommendations, there needs t…

cs.IR2020★ 11 cited

HotelRec: a Novel Very Large-Scale Hotel Recommendation Dataset

Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Today, recommender systems are an inevitable part of everyone's daily digital routine and are present on most internet platforms. State-of-the-art deep learning-based models requir…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

GameWikiSum: a Novel Large Multi-Document Summarization Dataset

Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Today's research progress in the field of multi-document summarization is obstructed by the small number of available datasets. Since the acquisition of reference summaries is cost…

cs.IR2020★ 23 cited

Multi-Gradient Descent for Multi-Objective Recommender Systems

Nikola Milojkovic, Diego Antognini, Giancarlo Bergamin +2

Recommender systems need to mirror the complexity of the environment they are applied in. The more we know about what might benefit the user, the more objectives the recommender sy…

cs.CL2019★ 1 cited

Learning to Create Sentence Semantic Relation Graphs for Multi-Document Summarization

Diego Antognini, Boi Faltings

Linking facts across documents is a challenging task, as the language used to express the same information in a sentence can vary significantly, which complicates the task of multi…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Multi-Dimensional Explanation of Target Variables from Documents

Diego Antognini, Claudiu Musat, Boi Faltings

Automated predictions require explanations to be interpretable by humans. Past work used attention and rationale mechanisms to find words that predict the target variable of a docu…

cs.CL2017

Dataset Construction via Attention for Aspect Term Extraction with Distant Supervision

Athanasios Giannakopoulos, Diego Antognini, Claudiu Musat +2

Aspect Term Extraction (ATE) detects opinionated aspect terms in sentences or text spans, with the end goal of performing aspect-based sentiment analysis. The small amount of avail…