no code implementations • 21 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.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2024 • Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang
Until recently, search engines were the predominant method for people to access online information.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2023 • Ryen W. White
As many of us in the information retrieval (IR) research community know and appreciate, search is far from being a solved problem.
1 code implementation • 31 Oct 2023 • Dong-Ho Lee, Jay Pujara, Mohit Sewak, Ryen W. White, Sujay Kumar Jauhar
In our experiments we demonstrate that instruction-following LLMs are highly cost-effective data creators, and that models trained with these data exhibit performance better than those trained with human-labeled data (by up to 17. 5%) on out-of-distribution evaluation, while maintaining comparable performance on in-distribution tasks.
Ranked #3 on Visual Question Answering on ViP-Bench
no code implementations • 14 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.
no code implementations • 12 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.
1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Michael Gamon, Ryen W. White
Tasks are a fundamental unit of work in the daily lives of people, who are increasingly using digital means to keep track of, organize, triage and act on them.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2021 • Yonchanok Khaokaew, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Ryen W. White, Flora D. Salim
App usage prediction is important for smartphone system optimization to enhance user experience.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Kristina Gligorić, Ryen W. White, Emre Kiciman, Eric Horvitz, Arnaud Chiolero, Robert West
To estimate causal effects from the passively observed log data, we control confounds in a matched quasi-experimental design: we identify focal users who at first do not have any regular eating partners but then start eating with a fixed partner regularly, and we match focal users into comparison pairs such that paired users are nearly identical with respect to covariates measured before acquiring the partner, where the two focal users' new eating partners diverge in the healthiness of their respective food choice.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2020 • Jina Suh, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, Tim Althoff
Most work to date on mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic is focused urgently on biomedicine and epidemiology.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2020 • Ziming Li, Julia Kiseleva, Alekh Agarwal, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White
Effective optimization is essential for real-world interactive systems to provide a satisfactory user experience in response to changing user behavior.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2020 • Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White
Our contributions are three-fold: (1) We first present a survey to understand the space of document-centered assistance and the capabilities people expect in this scenario.