Pacos: Modeling Users' Interpretable and Context-Dependent Choices in Preference Reversals
Choice problems refer to selecting the best choices from several items, and learning users' preferences in choice problems is of great significance in understanding the decision making mechanisms and providing personalized services. Existing works typically assume that people evaluate items independently. In practice, however, users' preferences depend on the market in which items are placed, which is known as context effects; and the order of users' preferences for two items may even be reversed, which is referred to preference reversals. In this work, we identify three factors contributing to context effects: users' adaptive weights, the inter-item comparison, and display positions. We propose a context-dependent preference model named Pacos as a unified framework for addressing three factors simultaneously, and consider two design methods including an additive method with high interpretability and an ANN-based method with high accuracy. We study the conditions for preference reversals to occur and provide an theoretical proof of the effectiveness of Pacos in addressing preference reversals. Experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than prior works in predicting users' choices, and has great interpretability to help understand the cause of preference reversals.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
Decision MakingSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
PaCoST: Paired Confidence Significance Testing for Benchmark Contamination Detection in Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are known to be trained on vast amounts of data, which may unintentionally or intentionally include data from commonly used benchmarks. This inclusion can lead to cheatingly high scores on mo…
Session-based Social Recommendation via Dynamic Graph Attention Networks
Online communities such as Facebook and Twitter are enormously popular and have become an essential part of the daily life of many of their users. Through these platforms, users can discover and create information that o…
Graph AttentionRecommendation SystemsA Systematic Analysis of Linguistic Features in AI-Generated Text Detection Across Domains and Models
Interpretable linguistic features offer a promising approach for explaining why a given text appears machine-generated, particularly for non-expert users. However, existing findings on which features reliably indicate LL…
Domain GeneralizationText DetectionHyPerAlign: Interpretable Personalized LLM Alignment via Hypothesis Generation
Alignment algorithms are widely used to align large language models (LLMs) to human users based on preference annotations. Typically these (often divergent) preferences are aggregated over a diverse set of users, resulti…
ArticlesAuthorship AttributionQuantum-Inspired Modeling of Driving Behavior
Driver behavior is heterogeneous, context-dependent, and changes over time, and these properties shape the traffic phenomena we observe. Most models, however, fix in advance which behavioral variables interact and how. B…