We need career planners, and not just people to get admission! Thanks to the pandemic, which pushed the limits of online aggregators and EdTech companies in international student recruitment. We are witnessing technology slowly making a powerful impact on student recruitment; though the industry is yet to witness the full power of Artificial Intelligence and Automation. Building AI platforms are going to be cheaper and replicating a technology model doesn't require a big innovation. The industry is going to be dumped with too much data for recruiters and students.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way we live and work. From self-driving cars and personalized healthcare to virtual assistants and improved manufacturing processes, AI is transforming industries and improving our daily lives. One of the biggest impacts of AI is in the field of automation. With machine learning algorithms, computers can now perform tasks that were previously only possible for humans to do. This is particularly evident in manufacturing, where AI is being used to optimize production lines and reduce the need for human labor.

This thesis shows how NLP Deep Learning methods, trained on user interactions sequences at H&M website, can be used to model user behavior and create personalized recommendations. We performed multiple experiments to prove how an ordered user history helps the model learn. Both item and user representations proved themselves to play an important role in our model's performance. New models won at performance but also saw different patterns on recommended items, recommending less popular items, and more expensive than our baseline model. We believe it is the powerful representation learning and the ability to capture order within sequences that are responsible for the performance improvements.

In recommender systems, a common problem is the presence of various biases in the collected data, which deteriorates the generalization ability of the recommendation models and leads to inaccurate predictions. Doubly robust (DR) learning has been studied in many tasks in RS, with the advantage that unbiased learning can be achieved when either a single imputation or a single propensity model is accurate. In this paper, we propose a multiple robust (MR) estimator that can take the advantage of multiple candidate imputation and propensity models to achieve unbiasedness. Specifically, the MR estimator is unbiased when any of the imputation or propensity models, or a linear combination of these models is accurate. Theoretical analysis shows that the proposed MR is an enhanced version of DR when only having a single imputation and propensity model, and has a smaller bias. Inspired by the generalization error bound of MR, we further propose a novel multiple robust learning approach with stabilization. We conduct extensive experiments on real-world and semi-synthetic datasets, which demonstrates the superiority of the proposed approach over state-of-the-art methods.

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If you haven't heard about ChatGPT, the new chatbot in town, there are chances you might be living under a rock. This chatbot developed by OpenAI is known to interact with users like a conversation, answers questions and even gives detailed answers on historical facts. What's more surprising that it is now used by users who are seeking matches on dating apps like Tinder. According to a Mashable report, Tinder users have created bots to swipe and message for them. The app has banned users who use this message, but it has come to the light that even this dating platform uses AI to generate conversation starters.

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Implicit feedback is frequently used for developing personalized recommendation services due to its ubiquity and accessibility in real-world systems. In order to effectively utilize such information, most research adopts the pairwise ranking method on constructed training triplets (user, positive item, negative item) and aims to distinguish between positive items and negative items for each user. However, most of these methods treat all the training triplets equally, which ignores the subtle difference between different positive or negative items. On the other hand, even though some other works make use of the auxiliary information (e.g., dwell time) of user behaviors to capture this subtle difference, such auxiliary information is hard to obtain. To mitigate the aforementioned problems, we propose a novel training framework named Triplet Importance Learning (TIL), which adaptively learns the importance score of training triplets. We devise two strategies for the importance score generation and formulate the whole procedure as a bilevel optimization, which does not require any rule-based design. We integrate the proposed training procedure with several Matrix Factorization (MF)- and Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based recommendation models, demonstrating the compatibility of our framework. Via a comparison using three real-world datasets with many state-of-the-art methods, we show that our proposed method outperforms the best existing models by 3-21\% in terms of Recall@k for the top-k recommendation.

We propose a method for generating simulated contextual bandit environments for personalization tasks from recommendation datasets like MovieLens, Netflix, Last.fm, Million Song, etc. This allows for personalization environments to be developed based on real-life data to reflect the nuanced nature of real-world user interactions. The obtained environments can be used to develop methods for solving personalization tasks, algorithm benchmarking, model simulation, and more. We demonstrate our approach with numerical examples on MovieLens and IMDb datasets.

A central goal of recommender systems is to select items according to the "preferences" of their users. "Preferences" is a complicated word that has been used across many disciplines to mean, roughly, "what people want." This has been justified by the assumption that people always choose what they want, an idea from 20th-century economics called revealed preference. However, this approach to preferences can lead to a variety of unwanted outcomes including clickbait, addiction, or algorithmic manipulation. Doing better requires both a change in thinking and a change in approach.