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The ability to learn from user interactions can give systems access to unprecedented amounts of world knowledge. This is already evident in search engines, recommender systems, and electronic commerce, and other applications are likely to follow in the near future (e.g., education, smart homes). More generally, the ability to learn from user interactions promises pathways for solving knowledge-intensive tasks ranging from natural language understanding to autonomous robotics. Learning from user interactions, however, means learning from data that does not necessarily fit the assumptions of the standard machine learning models. Since interaction data consists of the choices that humans make, it has to be interpreted with respect to how humans make decisions, which is influenced by the decision context and constraints like human motivation and human abilities. In this talk, I argue that we need learning approaches that explicitly model user-interaction data as the result of human decision making. To this effect, the talk explores how integrating microeconomic models of human behavior into the learning process leads to new learning algorithms that have provable guarantees under verifiable assumptions and to learning systems that perform robustly in practice. These findings imply that the design space of such human-interactive learning systems encompasses not only the machine learning algorithm itself, but also the design of the interaction under an appropriate model of user behavior. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1145/2684822.2685327 | WSDM |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
explicit feedback,user/machine systems,implicit feedback,user models,on-line information services,machine learning | Robot learning,Data mining,Algorithmic learning theory,Instance-based learning,Multi-task learning,Active learning,Active learning (machine learning),Computer science,Synchronous learning,Proactive learning | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
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Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Thorsten Joachims | 1 | 17387 | 1254.06 |