Publications by Diego Matteo Antognini

Unsupervised Term Extraction for Highly Technical Domains

Term extraction is an information extraction task at the root of knowledge discovery platforms. Developing term extractors that are able to generalize across very diverse and potentially highly technical domains is challenging, as annotations for domains r ...

2022

Positive and Negative Critiquing for VAE-based Recommenders

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini

Providing explanations for recommended items allows users to refine the recommendations by critiquing parts of the explanations. As a result of revisiting critiquing from the perspective of multimodal generative models, recent work has proposed M&Ms-VAE, w ...

2022

Active Learning for Imbalanced Civil Infrastructure Data

Ioana Giurgiu, Adelmo Cristiano Innocenza Malossi, Diego Matteo Antognini

Aging civil infrastructures are closely monitored by engineers for damage and critical defects. As the manual inspection of such large structures is costly and time-consuming, we are working towards fully automating the visual inspections to support the pr ...

2022

Textual Explanations and Critiques in Recommendation Systems

Diego Matteo Antognini

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms have become ubiquitous. Although they offer a wide range of benefits, their adoption in decision-critical fields is limited by their lack of interpretability, particularly with textual data. Moreover, ...

EPFL2022

Assistive Recipe Editing through Critiquing

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini

There has recently been growing interest in the automatic generation of cooking recipes that satisfy some form of dietary restrictions, thanks in part to the availability of online recipe data. Prior studies have used pre-trained language models, or relied ...

2022

Interlock-Free Multi-Aspect Rationalization for Text Classification

Diego Matteo Antognini

Explanation is important for text classification tasks. One prevalent type of explanation is rationales, which are text snippets of input text that suffice to yield the prediction and are meaningful to humans. A lot of research on rationalization has been ...

2022

Multi-Step Critiquing User Interface for Recommender Systems

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini, Diana Andreea Petrescu

Recommendations with personalized explanations have been shown to increase user trust and perceived quality and help users make better decisions. Moreover, such explanations allow users to provide feedback by critiquing them. Several algorithms for recomme ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Interacting with Explanations through Critiquing

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini

Using personalized explanations to support recommendations has been shown to increase trust and perceived quality. However, to actually obtain better recommendations, there needs to be a means for users to modify the recommendation criteria by interacting ...

2021

Recommending Burgers based on Pizza Preferences: Addressing Data Sparsity with a Product of Experts

Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini, Martin Milenkoski

In this paper, we describe a method to tackle data sparsity and create recommendations in domains with limited knowledge about user preferences. We expand the variational autoencoder collaborative filtering from a single-domain to a multi-domain setting. T ...

2021

Momentum-based Gradient Methods in Multi-Objective Recommendation

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini

Multi-objective gradient methods are becoming the standard for solving multi-objective problems. Among others, they show promising results in developing multi-objective recommender systems with both correlated and conflicting objectives. Classic multi-grad ...

2021

Modeling Online Behavior in Recommender Systems: The Importance of Temporal Context

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini

Simulating online recommender system performance is no- toriously difficult and the discrepancy between the online and offline behaviors is typically not accounted for in offline evaluations. Recommender systems research tends to evalu- ate model performan ...

2021

Fast Multi-Step Critiquing for VAE-based Recommender Systems

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini

Recent studies have shown that providing personalized explanations alongside recommendations increases trust and perceived quality. Furthermore, it gives users an opportunity to refine the recommendations by critiquing parts of the explanations. On one han ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Multi-Dimensional Explanation of Target Variables from Documents

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini

Automated predictions require explanations to be interpretable by humans. Past work used attention and rationale mechanisms to find words that predict the target variable of a document. Often though, they result in a tradeoff between noisy explanations or ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2021

Addressing fairness in classification with a model-agnostic multi-objective algorithm

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini

The goal of fairness in classification is to learn a classifier that does not discriminate against groups of individuals based on sensitive attributes, such as race and gender. One approach to designing fair algorithms is to use relaxations of fairness not ...

2021

Rationalization through Concepts

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini

Automated predictions require explanations to be interpretable by humans. One type of ex- planation is a rationale, i.e., a selection of in- put features such as relevant text snippets from which the model computes the outcome. How- ever, a single overall ...

2021

HotelRec: a Novel Very Large-Scale Hotel Recommendation Dataset

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini

Today, recommender systems are an inevitable part of everyone's daily digital routine and are present on most internet platforms. State-of-the-art deep learning-based models require a large number of data to achieve their best performance. Many datasets fu ...

EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOC-ELRA2020

GameWikiSum: a Novel Large Multi-Document Summarization Dataset

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini

Today's research progress in the field of multi-document summarization is obstructed by the small number of available datasets. Since the acquisition of reference summaries is costly, existing datasets contain only hundreds of samples at most, resulting in ...

EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOC-ELRA2020

Learning to Create Sentence Semantic Relation Graphs for Multi-Document Summarization

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini

Linking facts across documents is a challenging task, as the language used to express the same information in a sentence can vary significantly, which complicates the task of multi-document summarization. Consequently, existing approaches heavily rely on h ...

2019