Search Results for author: Chirag Shah

Found 35 papers, 3 papers with code

LLM-Driven Usefulness Labeling for IR Evaluation

no code implementations12 Mar 2025 Mouly Dewan, Jiqun Liu, Chirag Shah

In the information retrieval (IR) domain, evaluation plays a crucial role in optimizing search experiences and supporting diverse user intents.

Information Retrieval

Feedback-Aware Monte Carlo Tree Search for Efficient Information Seeking in Goal-Oriented Conversations

no code implementations25 Jan 2025 Harshita Chopra, Chirag Shah

The ability to identify and acquire missing information is a critical component of effective decision making and problem solving.

Medical Diagnosis Semantic Similarity +1

Efficient and Responsible Adaptation of Large Language Models for Robust and Equitable Top-k Recommendations

no code implementations8 Jan 2025 Kirandeep Kaur, Manya Chadha, Vinayak Gupta, Chirag Shah

Our results on three real-world datasets show a significant reduction in weak users and improved robustness to subpopulations without disproportionately escalating costs.

In-Context Learning Recommendation Systems

Agents Are Not Enough

no code implementations19 Dec 2024 Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White

In the midst of the growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into various aspects of our lives, agents are experiencing a resurgence.

How Many Van Goghs Does It Take to Van Gogh? Finding the Imitation Threshold

1 code implementation19 Oct 2024 Sahil Verma, Royi Rassin, Arnav Das, Gantavya Bhatt, Preethi Seshadri, Chirag Shah, Jeff Bilmes, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Yanai Elazar

We seek to determine the point at which a model was trained on enough instances to imitate a concept -- the imitation threshold.

Trusting Your AI Agent Emotionally and Cognitively: Development and Validation of a Semantic Differential Scale for AI Trust

no code implementations25 Jul 2024 Ruoxi Shang, Gary Hsieh, Chirag Shah

Trust is not just a cognitive issue but also an emotional one, yet the research in human-AI interactions has primarily focused on the cognitive route of trust development.

AI Agent

How Well Do LLMs Represent Values Across Cultures? Empirical Analysis of LLM Responses Based on Hofstede Cultural Dimensions

1 code implementation21 Jun 2024 Julia Kharchenko, Tanya Roosta, Aman Chadha, Chirag Shah

We prompt different LLMs with a series of advice requests based on 5 Hofstede Cultural Dimensions -- a quantifiable way of representing the values of a country.

Do LLMs Exhibit Human-Like Reasoning? Evaluating Theory of Mind in LLMs for Open-Ended Responses

no code implementations9 Jun 2024 Maryam Amirizaniani, Elias Martin, Maryna Sivachenko, Afra Mashhadi, Chirag Shah

Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning entails recognizing that other individuals possess their own intentions, emotions, and thoughts, which is vital for guiding one's own thought processes.

Question Answering Semantic Similarity +1

Panmodal Information Interaction

no code implementations21 May 2024 Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White

While our focus is search and chat, with learnings from insights from a survey of over 100 individuals who have recently performed common tasks on these two modalities, we also present a more general vision for the future of information interaction using multiple modalities and the emergent capabilities of GenAI.

Efficient and Responsible Adaptation of Large Language Models for Robust Top-k Recommendations

no code implementations1 May 2024 Kirandeep Kaur, Chirag Shah

Our results on three real-world datasets show a significant reduction in weak users and improved robustness of RSs to sub-populations $(\approx12\%)$ and overall performance without disproportionately escalating costs.

Collaborative Filtering In-Context Learning +2

TnT-LLM: Text Mining at Scale with Large Language Models

no code implementations18 Mar 2024 Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Yujin Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Siddharth Suri, Chirag Shah, Ryen W White, Longqi Yang, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Dhruv Joshi, Nagu Rangan

Transforming unstructured text into structured and meaningful forms, organized by useful category labels, is a fundamental step in text mining for downstream analysis and application.

ClaimVer: Explainable Claim-Level Verification and Evidence Attribution of Text Through Knowledge Graphs

no code implementations12 Mar 2024 Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Himanshu Naidu, Mouly Dewan, Youngmin Kim, Tanya Roosta, Aman Chadha, Chirag Shah

In the midst of widespread misinformation and disinformation through social media and the proliferation of AI-generated texts, it has become increasingly difficult for people to validate and trust information they encounter.

Fact Checking Knowledge Graphs +1

LLMAuditor: A Framework for Auditing Large Language Models Using Human-in-the-Loop

no code implementations14 Feb 2024 Maryam Amirizaniani, Jihan Yao, Adrian Lavergne, Elizabeth Snell Okada, Aman Chadha, Tanya Roosta, Chirag Shah

A case study using questions from the TruthfulQA dataset demonstrates that we can generate a reliable set of probes from one LLM that can be used to audit inconsistencies in a different LLM.

Hallucination TruthfulQA

AuditLLM: A Tool for Auditing Large Language Models Using Multiprobe Approach

no code implementations14 Feb 2024 Maryam Amirizaniani, Elias Martin, Tanya Roosta, Aman Chadha, Chirag Shah

AuditLLM's primary function is to audit a given LLM by deploying multiple probes derived from a single question, thus detecting any inconsistencies in the model's comprehension or performance.

Effective Backdoor Mitigation in Vision-Language Models Depends on the Pre-training Objective

no code implementations25 Nov 2023 Sahil Verma, Gantavya Bhatt, Avi Schwarzschild, Soumye Singhal, Arnav Mohanty Das, Chirag Shah, John P Dickerson, Pin-Yu Chen, Jeff Bilmes

We find that CleanCLIP, even with extensive hyperparameter tuning, is ineffective in poison removal when stronger pre-training objectives are used.

Zero-Shot Learning

Detecting Spurious Correlations via Robust Visual Concepts in Real and AI-Generated Image Classification

no code implementations3 Nov 2023 Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Chirag Shah

This undesirable property is the root cause of the manifestation of spurious correlations, which render models unreliable and prone to failure in the presence of distribution shifts.

Image Classification

Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models

no code implementations30 Oct 2023 Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu, Yunhe Feng, Chirag Shah

Our new method is able to (1) identify weak decision boundaries for such classes; (2) construct search queries for Google as well as text for generating images through DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion; and (3) show how these newly captured training samples could alleviate population bias issue.

Image Classification

Using Large Language Models to Generate, Validate, and Apply User Intent Taxonomies

no code implementations14 Sep 2023 Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Scott Counts, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ali Montazer, Sathish Manivannan, Jennifer Neville, Xiaochuan Ni, Nagu Rangan, Tara Safavi, Siddharth Suri, Mengting Wan, Leijie Wang, Longqi Yang

However, using LLMs to generate a user intent taxonomy and apply it for log analysis can be problematic for two main reasons: (1) such a taxonomy is not externally validated; and (2) there may be an undesirable feedback loop.

Artificial Intelligence in Career Counseling: A Test Case with ResumAI

no code implementations28 Aug 2023 Muhammad Rahman, Sachi Figliolini, Joyce Kim, Eivy Cedeno, Charles Kleier, Chirag Shah, Aman Chadha

It is difficult to find good resources or schedule an appointment with a career counselor to help with editing a resume for a specific role.

RecRec: Algorithmic Recourse for Recommender Systems

no code implementations28 Aug 2023 Sahil Verma, Ashudeep Singh, Varich Boonsanong, John P. Dickerson, Chirag Shah

To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to conceptualize and empirically test a generalized framework for generating recourses for recommender systems.

Recommendation Systems valid

Toward Connecting Speech Acts and Search Actions in Conversational Search Tasks

1 code implementation8 May 2023 Souvick Ghosh, Satanu Ghosh, Chirag Shah

Then, the speech acts were fed to the model to predict the corresponding system-level search actions.

Conversational Search

Taking Search to Task

no code implementations12 Jan 2023 Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Bhaskar Mitra, Shawon Sarkar, Nicholas Belkin

For decades, scholars made a case for the role that a user's task plays in how and why that user engages in search and what a search system should do to assist.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

RecXplainer: Amortized Attribute-based Personalized Explanations for Recommender Systems

no code implementations27 Nov 2022 Sahil Verma, Chirag Shah, John P. Dickerson, Anurag Beniwal, Narayanan Sadagopan, Arjun Seshadri

We evaluate RecXplainer on five real-world and large-scale recommendation datasets using five different kinds of recommender systems to demonstrate the efficacy of RecXplainer in capturing users' preferences over item attributes and using them to explain recommendations.

Attribute Recommendation Systems

Towards Generating Robust, Fair, and Emotion-Aware Explanations for Recommender Systems

no code implementations17 Aug 2022 Bingbing Wen, Yunhe Feng, Yongfeng Zhang, Chirag Shah

Current explanation generation models are found to exaggerate certain emotions without accurately capturing the underlying tone or the meaning.

Explainable Recommendation Explanation Generation +3

EGCR: Explanation Generation for Conversational Recommendation

no code implementations17 Aug 2022 Bingbing Wen, Xiaoning Bu, Chirag Shah

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first framework for explainable conversational recommendation on real-world datasets.

Conversational Recommendation Explanation Generation +1

FAIR: Fairness-Aware Information Retrieval Evaluation

no code implementations16 Jun 2021 Ruoyuan Gao, Yingqiang Ge, Chirag Shah

We believe our work opens up a new direction of pursuing a metric for evaluating and implementing the FAIR systems.

Diversity Fairness +3

Users' Perception of Search Engine Biases and Satisfaction

no code implementations6 May 2021 Bin Han, Chirag Shah, Daniel Saelid

We found out that users prefer results that are more consistent and relevant to the search queries.

University of Washington at TREC 2020 Fairness Ranking Track

no code implementations3 Nov 2020 Yunhe Feng, Daniel Saelid, Ke Li, Ruoyuan Gao, Chirag Shah

The results showed that our runs performed below par for re-ranking task, but above average for retrieval.

Ethics Fairness +2

Counterfactual Explanations and Algorithmic Recourses for Machine Learning: A Review

no code implementations20 Oct 2020 Sahil Verma, Varich Boonsanong, Minh Hoang, Keegan E. Hines, John P. Dickerson, Chirag Shah

Machine learning plays a role in many deployed decision systems, often in ways that are difficult or impossible to understand by human stakeholders.

BIG-bench Machine Learning counterfactual +1

Facets of Fairness in Search and Recommendation

no code implementations16 Jul 2020 Sahil Verma, Ruoyuan Gao, Chirag Shah

Several recent works have highlighted how search and recommender systems exhibit bias along different dimensions.

Diversity Fairness +1

Reading Protocol: Understanding what has been Read in Interactive Information Retrieval Tasks

no code implementations12 Feb 2019 Daniel Hienert, Dagmar Kern, Matthew Mitsui, Chirag Shah, Nicholas J. Belkin

In Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) experiments the user's gaze motion on web pages is often recorded with eye tracking.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

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