Transforms web content for better visibility in AI-driven search engines.
problem Disruption of traditional SEO by generative AI search engines.
method Fine-tunes a BART-base transformer on synthetically generated training data.
result Significant improvements in ROUGE-L and BLEU scores, and substantial visibility gains in generative search responses.
With the growth of user-generated content, we observe the constant rise of the number of companies, such as search engines, content aggregators, etc., that operate with tremendous amounts of web content not being the services hosting it. Thus, aiming to locate the most important content and promote it to the users, the…
Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo shari…
DMAN embeds social images with deep multimodal attention networks.
problem Sub-optimal social image representation for social media data.
method Deep Multimodal Attention Networks (DMAN) that jointly embed multimodal contents and link information.
result DMAN achieves significant improvement in multi-label classification and cross-modal search compared to state-of-the-art image embeddings.
The problem of content search through comparisons has recently received considerable attention. In short, a user searching for a target object navigates through a database in the following manner: the user is asked to select the object most similar to her target from a small list of objects. A new object list is then p…
Modeling incentives for content creators on algorithm-curated platforms.
problem Maximizing exposure for content creators on algorithmic platforms.
method Formalized exposure game model, proving effects of algorithmic choices on equilibria, proposing tools for finding equilibria.
result Algorithmic choices significantly affect content exposure and creator behavior.
Improves search performance by transferring knowledge from recommender system.
problem Cold start and feedback loop problems in search retrieval.
method Zero-Shot Heterogeneous Transfer Learning framework.
result Significant improvements in relevance and user interactions over production system.
New model for learning from noisy human comparisons, improving search efficiency.
problem Designing efficient algorithms for content search with noisy human feedback.
method Introducing a weak oracle model for comparison-based queries and developing WORCS-I and WORCS-II algorithms.
result Provable algorithms locating target objects with close to entropy of target distribution.
System automatically searches for scientific features in Mars rover images.
problem Manual task planning for Mars rover images is time-consuming and error-prone.
method Deep image captioning network and automated task prioritization.
result System can prioritize images for transmission based on search tasks.
This study seeks to validate a search protocol of ill health-related terms using Twitter data which can later be used to understand if, and how, Twitter can reveal information on the current health situation. We extracted conversations related to health and disease postings on Twitter using a set of pre-defined keyword…
DINOSAUR improves retrieval by accounting for embedding uncertainty in recommender systems.
problem Retrieval bias towards popular items due to noisy embeddings.
method Samples multiple embeddings per item and queries with sampled embeddings to account for uncertainty.
result Improves coverage of long-tail niche content without sacrificing recall.
Ancestry improves genealogy search results by ranking diverse record types.
problem Ranking diverse genealogy records equitably from various sources.
method Customized Coordinate Ascent, Stochastic Search, Normalized Cumulative Entropy.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of algorithms in improving relevance and diversity.
The paper addresses model vulnerability to image transformations.
problem Vulnerability of computer vision models to distributional shifts.
method Formulates a combinatorial optimization problem and uses search algorithms to evaluate vulnerability regions. Embeds this idea in a training procedure to define new data augmentation rules.
result Trains more robust models against distributional shifts and image manipulations.
Deep neural nets predict click-through rates for sponsored search ads.
problem Predicting click-through rates for sponsored search ads.
method Two novel deep convolutional neural network approaches at character and word levels.
result Deep models significantly outperform baseline models and improve click-through rate prediction accuracy.
PARMESAN learns from memory without parameters for fast, efficient continual learning.
problem Inflexibility in deep learning methods for continual learning.
method Transductive reasoning and memory search for parameter-free learning.
result 3-4 orders of magnitude faster than baselines, comparable performance.
Efficient algorithm for optimizing web page layouts in real-time.
problem Optimizing web pages for conversions and click-through rates is challenging due to the large decision space and interactions between components.
method Formulated a multivariate optimization approach using bandit methodology for efficient exploration and hill-climbing for optimal selection in real-time.
result Achieved a 21% conversion increase after a single week of online optimization.
Finding relevant information from large document collections such as the World Wide Web is a common task in our daily lives. Estimation of a user's interest or search intention is necessary to recommend and retrieve relevant information from these collections. We introduce a brain-information interface used for recomme…
New model learns content and transformation separately from data.
problem Learning disentangled representations from data without explicit labels.
method Group-based variational autoencoders, assuming content and transformation groups.
result Model learns generalizable content representations from unseen data.
Deep learning improves website fingerprinting performance.
problem Improving website fingerprinting attacks using deep learning.
method Unsupervised deep neural networks for feature extraction and classification.
result Deep learning can predict fingerprintability of websites with 99% accuracy.
Study shows online learning algorithms incentivize low-quality content, proposing new algorithms to improve quality.
problem Online learning algorithms in content recommender systems incentivize producers to create low-quality content.
method Analyzed the game between producers and content quality, designed new learning algorithms to incentivize high effort and quality.
result New algorithms incentivize producers to invest high effort and achieve high user welfare, improving content quality.
Proposes a model to optimize feedback for content creators on social media.
problem Nurturing content creation on social media platforms.
method Modeling feedback distribution to incentivize creators and optimize newsfeed experience.
result Optimized newsfeed for content creators without compromising user experience.
Proposes a VAE variant for ordinal content factors.
problem Isolating ordinal-valued content factors in deep latent variable models.
method Introduces a partially ordered set (poset) structure and a conditional Gaussian spacing prior model.
result Significant improvements in content-style separation over previous non-ordinal approaches.
This research predicts the popularity of new video contents using a hybrid machine learning approach.
problem Predicting the popularity of new video contents before they are published.
method Hybrid machine learning approach combining XGBoosting and deep neural nets, using metadata and categorical embedding techniques.
result Achieved better performance than standalone methods, validated on a dataset from a top streaming service.
Method recombines image content and style from different images.
problem Recombining image content and style from different images.
method Constructs content embedding, uses VAE with leakage filtering to ensure separation of style and content.
result Synthesizes novel images with state-of-the-art performance on few-shot learning tasks.
Preserves content while changing style in text.
problem Text style transfer often fails to preserve content.
method Leverages linguistic information in structured supervisions.
result Significant improvement in content preservation and style transfer.
Many businesses are using recommender systems for marketing outreach. Recommendation algorithms can be either based on content or driven by collaborative filtering. We study different ways to incorporate content information directly into the matrix factorization approach of collaborative filtering. These content-booste…
Spotify improves content mix using contextual bandits.
problem Skewed historical data and varying user preferences across contexts.
method Contextual bandits to dynamically learn optimal content type distribution.
result Improved precision and user engagement with under-represented content types.
A new model considers fatigue in online content recommendation systems.
problem Fatigue in users due to overexposure and boredom from similar recommendations.
method Proposed a fatigue-aware Dependent Click Model (DCM) and two learning algorithms.
result Developed algorithms with regret bounds for learning content relevance and fatigue effects.
New PCGML approach generates novel game content across multiple platformer domains.
problem Generating novel game content in new domains.
method Using a new affordance and path vocabulary, variational autoencoders trained on data from six platformer games produce new content with varying proportions of different domains.
result Captures latent level space spanning multiple domains and generates new content with varying proportions of different domains.
Deep neural network predicts semantic labels for source code.
problem Difficulty in labeling and understanding new programming languages and functionalities.
method Language-agnostic deep convolutional neural network trained on Stack Overflow code snippets.
result Mean area under ROC of 0.957 and top-1 accuracy of 86.6% on Github code documents.
New study shows personalized content recommendations can lead to polarization of user preferences.
problem Personalized content recommendations can alter user preferences, leading to polarization.
method Used a model of preference dynamics to explore how personalized content affects user preferences.
result Standard reward maximization algorithms achieve only constant regret in personalized recommendation environments.
A new approach uses deep learning to manage vehicular content efficiently.
problem Managing content replication and caching in vehicular networks efficiently.
method Data-driven, centralized approach using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).
result Effective strategies derived to modulate FC operation in space and adapt to mobility changes.
BPI models 2D patterns on multiple planes and 3D scene from a single image.
problem Understanding and editing images with multiple 2D planes and 3D scene from a single image.
method Box Program Induction (BPI) with neural networks and search-based algorithm.
result Holistic, structured scene representation enables 3D-aware image editing.
With rapid development of the Internet, web contents become huge. Most of the websites are publicly available, and anyone can access the contents from anywhere such as workplace, home and even schools. Nevertheless, not all the web contents are appropriate for all users, especially children. An example of these content…
Study on heat content for submanifolds in sub-Riemannian geometry.
problem Understanding heat content for submanifolds in sub-Riemannian geometry.
method Existence of smooth tubular neighborhood, definition of relative heat content, approximation via smooth neighborhoods, asymptotic expansion analysis.
result Approximation of relative heat content fails to recover the exact expansion.
BubbleRank improves online search results using safe exploration.
problem Learning user preferences from scratch in online ranking is costly and risky.
method BubbleRank combines offline and online learning, starting with an initial base list and improving it online by exchanging items.
result BubbleRank achieves a graceful degradation of n-step regret with a good initial base list.
Enhances content moderation with culturally-aware models.
problem Global content moderation policies miss local cultural nuances.
method Fine-tuning encoder-decoder models on media-diet data.
result Improved accuracy in local violation detection and cultural alignment.
This work improves disentanglement by preventing style variables from encoding content-related features.
problem Disentanglement of content and style in data representations using Variational Autoencoders.
method Adversarial training with mutual information minimization to prevent content information leakage in style representations.
result The method efficiently separates content and style related attributes and generalizes to unseen data.
Efficiently transfers style to content without distorting the content structure.
problem Arbitrary style transfer in computer vision.
method Rigid alignment of style features to content features.
result High-quality stylized images with intact content structure.
Much of the data being created on the web contains interactions between users and items. Stochastic blockmodels, and other methods for community detection and clustering of bipartite graphs, can infer latent user communities and latent item clusters from this interaction data. These methods, however, typically ignore t…
Improves content allocation in educational platforms with sparse data.
problem Imbalanced content allocation and delayed convergence in adaptive strategies.
method Introduces WAPTS, an algorithm that refines Thompson Sampling for data-sparse environments.
result Demonstrates earlier and more reliable identification of promising treatments.
Simple method disentangles content and style from pre-trained vision models.
problem Learning interpretable features in visual representations.
method Probabilistic linear entanglement model and simple disentanglement algorithm.
result Method provably disentangles content and style features.
Study on heat content for domains with fractal boundaries.
problem Analyzing short-time asymptotics of heat content for domains with fractal boundaries.
method Developing mathematical analysis on de Gennes' hypothesis and exploring fractal curvatures.
result Fractal curvatures and their scaling exponents may emerge in the short-time heat content asymptotics of domains with fractal boundaries.
IGSD separates task-specific content channels in transformer components by comparing activation replacement with zero ablation.
problem Mechanistic interpretability of transformer components
method IGSD: paired-intervention framework for comparing activation replacement with zero ablation
result IGSD identifies an early-layer content channel in transformer components that standard importance methods underestimate.
System filters inappropriate YouTube content for advertisers.
problem Inadequate detection of inappropriate content on YouTube ads.
method Proposes a system for identifying and filtering inappropriate content.
result Current countermeasures are ineffective in detecting inappropriate content.
Proposes a new model to measure trade impact and information content in fluctuating markets.
problem Measuring price impact and information content of trades in a time-varying market setting.
method Non-linear observation-driven model for dynamically estimating market impact and information content.
result Market impact shows intraday patterns with large fluctuations, some of which are exogenous.
Measures policy-violating content prevalence with ML-assisted sampling and LLM labeling.
problem Accurate measurement of content violations that are often rare and costly to label.
method Design-based measurement system using ML-assisted probability sampling and LLM labeling.
result Produces unbiased prevalence estimates with confidence intervals and dashboard drilldowns.
Recommender systems leverage product and community information to target products to consumers. Researchers have developed collaborative recommenders, content-based recommenders, and (largely ad-hoc) hybrid systems. We propose a unified probabilistic framework for merging collaborative and content-based recommendations…