The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a popular personality metric that uses four dichotomies as indicators of personality traits. This paper examines the use of pre-trained language models to predict MBTI personality types based on scraped labeled texts. The proposed model reaches an accuracy of for correct…
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System learns to combine multiple model components for personalized text generation.
problem Adapting and biasing language models for personal preferences.
method Combines model-defined components, learns activation and probability combination from unlabeled text.
result Directly generates text with personalized components from unlabeled data.
Federated learning is a distributed, on-device computation framework that enables training global models without exporting sensitive user data to servers. In this work, we describe methods to extend the federation framework to evaluate strategies for personalization of global models. We present tools to analyze the eff…
A new system combines vision and language for person re-identification.
problem Real-world surveillance lacks visual data for person re-identification.
method Two-stream CNN framework with shared logits, CCA for modalities, multi-modal testing protocol.
result 22% improvement in re-identification performance with multi-modal queries.
Summarizes financial news for better investment decisions.
problem Information overload from financial news hinders timely investment decisions.
method Personalized Chain-of-Thought summarization framework integrating user-specified keywords.
result Personalized summaries highlight relevant market signals, improving investment narratives.
FMP improves personalized ASR models on private devices.
problem Limited accuracy and privacy in federated fine-tuning of ASR models.
method FMP estimates global and personalized marginal distributions and adjusts NNLM probabilities.
result FMP achieves modest WER reductions on ASR rescoring tasks.
Study on continual learning with Twitter data, developing ConGraD algorithm.
problem Personalized online language learning on a massive scale.
method Developed POLL problem setting, collected Firehose datasets, and introduced ConGraD algorithm.
result ConGraD algorithm outperforms prior continual learning methods on Firehose datasets.
New framework analyzes LLM personalization trade-offs under congestion.
problem Tension between personalization and resource sharing in LLMs.
method Developed a statistical-economic framework to model user incentives.
result Congestion can flip rankings of SFT and ICL, and offers both methods never hurt profits.
A Language-independent and Compositional Model for Personality Trait Recognition from Short Textscs.CL
Many methods have been used to recognize author personality traits from text, typically combining linguistic feature engineering with shallow learning models, e.g. linear regression or Support Vector Machines. This work uses deep-learning-based models and atomic features of text, the characters, to build hierarchical, …
Large Language Models-Enabled Digital Twins for Precision Medicine in Rare Gynecological Tumorscs.CL
Study uses LLMs to create personalized treatment plans for rare gynecological tumors.
problem Suboptimal management and poor prognosis due to low incidence and heterogeneity of rare gynecological tumors.
method Developed a digital twin system using LLMs to integrate clinical and biomarker data.
result LLM-enabled digital twins efficiently model individual patient trajectories and identify potential treatment options.
Study reveals LLM personality patterns but lacks behavioral consistency.
problem Understanding and validating personality traits in LLMs.
method Characterized LLM personality across three dimensions: training dynamics, self-report validity, and intervention effects.
result Self-reported traits do not reliably predict behavior, and instructional alignment affects trait expression but not behavior.
We present PROPS, a lightweight transfer learning mechanism for sequential data. PROPS learns probabilistic perturbations around the predictions of one or more arbitrarily complex, pre-trained black box models (such as recurrent neural networks). The technique pins the black-box prediction functions to "source nodes" o…
AI platforms disrupt investment by personalizing deal sourcing and insights.
problem Lack of scalable, personalized, and privacy-compliant deal sourcing and insights solutions.
method Development of in-house AI platforms that interact directly with funds and learn from interactions.
result AI platforms provide smarter, personalized use cases for funds, offering a competitive advantage.
This is a lecture note for the course DS-GA 3001 <Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation> at the Center for Data Science , New York University in Fall, 2015. As the name of the course suggests, this lecture note introduces readers to a neural network based approach to natural language understand…
Domain classification is the task of mapping spoken language utterances to one of the natural language understanding domains in intelligent personal digital assistants (IPDAs). This is a major component in mainstream IPDAs in industry. Apart from official domains, thousands of third-party domains are also created by ex…
The recognition of sign language is a challenging task with an important role in society to facilitate the communication of deaf persons. We propose a new approach of Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network to sign language recognition based on the human skeletal movements. The method uses graphs to capture the si…
Personalizes pre-trained models for nonparametric regression with limited data.
problem Improving data efficiency in nonparametric regression with few samples.
method Develops a theoretical framework and algorithms for few-shot personalization of black-box models.
result Achieves minimax optimal rate for personalization in nonparametric regression.
The collaborative ranking problem has been an important open research question as most recommendation problems can be naturally formulated as ranking problems. While much of collaborative ranking methodology assumes static ranking data, the importance of temporal information to improving ranking performance is increasi…
Recent advances in spoken language technologies and the introduction of many customer facing products, have given rise to a wide customer reliance on smart personal assistants for many of their daily tasks. In this paper, we present a system to reduce users' cognitive load by extending personal assistants with long-ter…
LLMs can simulate human investment attitudes based on personality traits.
problem Investigating how LLMs mimic human investment behaviors.
method Simulated investment task using LLM personas with specific Big Five personality profiles.
result LLMs can produce meaningful behavioural differences in investment tasks that align with human traits.
Optimizes LLM prompts using logged user feedback.
problem Naive approaches to optimizing LLM prompts suffer from high variance and bias.
method Kernel-based off-policy gradient method leveraging sentence similarity.
result Substantially reduces variance and suppresses bias in optimizing prompts.
Edge language models show bias over time, especially on resource-constrained devices.
problem Bias in edge language models on resource-constrained devices.
method Comparative analysis of text-based bias across edge, cloud, and desktop environments; optimized Llama-2 model on Raspberry Pi 4; feedback loop mechanism to correct bias.
result Llama-2 on Raspberry Pi 4 shows 43.23% and 21.89% more bias over time compared to cloud and desktop models.
We develop a model of issue-specific voting behavior. This model can be used to explore lawmakers' personal voting patterns of voting by issue area, providing an exploratory window into how the language of the law is correlated with political support. We derive approximate posterior inference algorithms based on variat…
Study shows LLM-advisors match human performance in eliciting preferences but struggle with conflicting needs and trust.
problem How do LLM-advisors perform in complex financial domains where domain expertise is crucial?
method Lab-based user study with 64 participants, focusing on three challenges: preference elicitation, personalized guidance, and relationship building.
result LLM-advisors can match human performance in preference elicitation but struggle with conflicting needs and trust issues.
With online calendar services gaining popularity worldwide, calendar data has become one of the richest context sources for understanding human behavior. However, event scheduling is still time-consuming even with the development of online calendars. Although machine learning based event scheduling models have automate…
Interaction-Grounded Learning for Contextual Markov Decision Processes with Personalized Feedbackcs.LG
Efficient algorithm for learning from indirect feedback in complex decision-making scenarios.
problem Learning from indirect feedback in realistic scenarios with personalized mechanisms.
method IGW algorithm for policy optimization, extending reward-estimator construction from single-step to multi-step.
result Achieves sublinear regret guarantee for contextual episodic MDPs with personalized feedback.
CoLoRA leverages task similarity to boost fine-tuning efficiency.
problem Efficiently fine-tuning large foundation models with scarce labeled data.
method CoLoRA trains a shared adapter for task similarity and personalized adapters for user-specific tasks.
result CoLoRA significantly boosts fine-tuning performance when tasks are similar.
Language evolves over time in many ways relevant to natural language processing tasks. For example, recent occurrences of tokens 'BERT' and 'ELMO' in publications refer to neural network architectures rather than persons. This type of temporal signal is typically overlooked, but is important if one aims to deploy a mac…
Visual relationship detection can bridge the gap between computer vision and natural language for scene understanding of images. Different from pure object recognition tasks, the relation triplets of subject-predicate-object lie on an extreme diversity space, such as \textit{person-behind-person} and \textit{car-behind…
Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) have become widely popular in recent times. Most of the commercial IPAs today support a wide range of skills including Alarms, Reminders, Weather Updates, Music, News, Factual Questioning-Answering, etc. The list grows every day, making it difficult to remember the command structu…
To help enforce data-protection regulations such as GDPR and detect unauthorized uses of personal data, we develop a new \emph{model auditing} technique that helps users check if their data was used to train a machine learning model. We focus on auditing deep-learning models that generate natural-language text, includi…
Predict human lives using sequences of life events.
problem Predicting human life outcomes based on detailed event sequences.
method Adapting natural language processing techniques to analyze life events.
result Models predict diverse outcomes with high accuracy, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
An increase in the use of smartphones has laid to the use of the internet and social media platforms. The most commonly used social media platforms are Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. People are sharing their personal experiences, reviews, feedbacks on the web. The information which is available on the web i…
Model user preferences for conversational LLMs using weak rewards.
problem Lack of persistent user models in conversational LLMs leading to repeated user restatements.
method Vector-Adapted Retrieval Scoring (VARS) framework that updates user vectors online from weak scalar rewards.
result Full VARS agent achieves strongest overall performance, matches strong Reflection baseline in task success, and reduces user effort.
We present RUSLAN -- a new open Russian spoken language corpus for the text-to-speech task. RUSLAN contains 22200 audio samples with text annotations -- more than 31 hours of high-quality speech of one person -- being the largest annotated Russian corpus in terms of speech duration for a single speaker. We trained an e…
Language systems have been of great interest to the research community and have recently reached the mass market through various assistant platforms on the web. Reinforcement Learning methods that optimize dialogue policies have seen successes in past years and have recently been extended into methods that personalize …
Transformer architecture struggles with complex tasks due to limitations in function composition.
problem Transformer architecture's limitations in handling complex tasks.
method Used Communication Complexity to prove limitations in composing functions.
result Transformer layer is incapable of handling large domain functions, even when domains are small.
This paper presents a self-supervised method for visual detection of the active speaker in a multi-person spoken interaction scenario. Active speaker detection is a fundamental prerequisite for any artificial cognitive system attempting to acquire language in social settings. The proposed method is intended to compleme…
Study uses interviews to automatically detect BD and BPD with good accuracy.
problem Challenges in distinguishing BD and BPD from clinical interviews.
method Developed a multi-modal dataset and used a linear classifier with selected features from interviews.
result Different sets of features characterize BD and BPD, providing insights into their differences.
The paper aims to define a benchmark for deep learning recommendation models.
problem Insufficient benchmarking for deep learning recommendation models.
method Synthesizes modeling strategies, defines desirable characteristics, and summarizes advice from the MLPerf Recommendation Advisory Board.
result Defines an industry-relevant benchmark for deep learning recommendation models.
Tailoring the presentation of information to the needs of individual students leads to massive gains in student outcomes~\cite{bloom19842}. This finding is likely due to the fact that different students learn differently, perhaps as a result of variation in ability, interest or other factors~\cite{schiefele1992interest…
Adaptive personalized federated learning improves local model personalization.
problem Maximizing global model performance limits local model personalization.
method APFL algorithm trains local models while contributing to global model, with optimal mixing parameter and communication-efficient optimization.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of personalization schema and correctness of generalization theories.
We introduce a method to learn a hierarchy of successively more abstract representations of complex data based on optimizing an information-theoretic objective. Intuitively, the optimization searches for a set of latent factors that best explain the correlations in the data as measured by multivariate mutual informatio…
Framework generates personalized insulin treatment strategies using deep models.
problem Developing optimal personalized treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
method Combines deep generative time series models with decision theory.
result Demonstrated improved personalized insulin treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
Voice-controlled personal and home assistants (such as the Amazon Echo and Apple Siri) are becoming increasingly popular for a variety of applications. However, the benefits of these technologies are not readily accessible to Deaf or Hard-ofHearing (DHH) users. The objective of this study is to develop and evaluate a s…
GAMBITTS uses GenAI for adaptive interventions, improving decision-making.
problem Adaptive interventions with GenAI-generated content.
method Generator-mediated bandit-Thompson sampling (GAMBITTS).
result GAMBITTS outperforms standard bandit methods in mobile health interventions.
A method for disentangling text representations without supervision.
problem Challenges in learning disentangled representations of natural language.
method Information-theoretic guidance to induce independent style and content embeddings.
result High quality disentangled representations in terms of content and style preservation.
A Generative Framework for Personalized Learning and Estimation: Theory, Algorithms, and Privacycs.LG
Generative framework unifies and improves personalized learning and estimation methods.
problem Statistical heterogeneity in client data motivates personalized learning models.
method Generative framework unifies and suggests new personalized learning and estimation algorithms.
result AdaPeD algorithm numerically outperforms known algorithms.