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Scott Sanner

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

124

Venues

34

Active years

2000–2026

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A*

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Papers

124 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026AAAINear-optimal Linear Predictive Clustering in Non-separable Spaces via MIP and QPBO Reductions.Jiazhou Liang, Hassan Khurram, Scott Sanner
2026AAAIEfficient Modality Translation via Arbitrary Conditioning and Wasserstein Regularization.Toms Tokr, Scott Sanner
2026ACLBayesian Active Learning with Gaussian Processes Guided by LLM Relevance Scoring for Dense Passage Retrieval.Junyoung Kim, Anton Korikov, Jiazhou Liang, Justin Cui, Yifan Simon Liu, Qianfeng Wen, Mark Zhao, Scott Sanner
2026ACLEvaluating Scene-based In-Situ Item Labeling for Immersive Conversational Recommendation.Jiazhou Liang, Yifan Simon Liu, David Guo, Yilun Jiang, Minqi Sun, Scott Sanner
2026ACLSemantic XPath: Structured Agentic Memory Access for Conversational AI.Yifan Simon Liu, Ruifan Wu, Liam Gallagher, Jiazhou Liang, Armin Toroghi, Scott Sanner
2026ACLMultimodal Item Scoring for Natural Language Recommendation via Gaussian Process Regression with LLM Relevance Judgments.Yifan Simon Liu, Qianfeng Wen, Jiazhou Liang, Mark Zhao, Justin Cui, Anton Korikov, Armin Toroghi, Junyoung Kim, Scott Sanner
2026CPAIORLarge Neighborhood Search Meets Iterative Neural Constraint Heuristics.Yudong W. Xu, Wenhao Li, Scott Sanner, Elias B. Khalil
2026SIGIRCommonWhy: A Dataset for Evaluating Entity-Based Causal Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models.Armin Toroghi, Faeze Moradi Kalarde, Scott Sanner
2025AAAIModelDiff: Symbolic Dynamic Programming for Model-Aware Policy Transfer in Deep Q-Learning.Xiaotian Liu, Jihwan Jeong, Ayal Taitler, Michael Gimelfarb, Scott Sanner
2025AAAIICE-T: Interactions-aware Cross-column Contrastive Embedding for Heterogeneous Tabular Datasets.Toms Tokr, Scott Sanner
2025ACLOpen-World Planning via Lifted Regression with LLM-Inferred Affordances for Embodied Agents.Xiaotian Liu, Ali Pesaranghader, Hanze Li, Punyaphat Sukcharoenchaikul, Jaehong Kim, Tanmana Sadhu, Hyejeong Jeon, Scott Sanner
2025ACLQ-STRUM Debate: Query-Driven Contrastive Summarization for Recommendation Comparison.George-Kirollos Saad, Scott Sanner
2025CPAIORBounded-Error Policy Optimization for Mixed Discrete-Continuous MDPs via Constraint Generation in Nonlinear Programming.Michael Gimelfarb, Ayal Taitler, Scott Sanner
2025EMNLPBatched Self-Consistency Improves LLM Relevance Assessment and Ranking.Anton Korikov, Pan Du, Scott Sanner, Navid Rekabsaz
2025EMNLPMA-DPR: Manifold-aware Distance Metrics for Dense Passage Retrieval.Yifan Liu, Qianfeng Wen, Mark Zhao, Jiazhou Liang, Scott Sanner
2025ICLRLLM-based Typed Hyperresolution for Commonsense Reasoning with Knowledge Bases.Armin Toroghi, Ali Pesaranghader, Tanmana Sadhu, Scott Sanner
2025ICMLSelf-Supervised Transformers as Iterative Solution Improvers for Constraint Satisfaction.Yudong Xu, Wenhao Li, Scott Sanner, Elias Boutros Khalil
2025ICMLReflect-then-Plan: Offline Model-Based Planning through a Doubly Bayesian Lens.Jihwan Jeong, Xiaoyu Wang, Jingmin Wang, Scott Sanner, Pascal Poupart
2025SIGIRGENNEXT: The Next Generation of IR and Recommender Systems with Language Agents, Generative Models, and Conversational AI.Yashar Deldjoo, Scott Sanner, Enrico Palumbo, Hugues Bouchard, Shuai Zhang, Pablo Castells, Julian J. McAuley
2025SIGIRCoLoTa: A Dataset for Entity-based Commonsense Reasoning over Long-Tail Knowledge.Armin Toroghi, Willis Guo, Scott Sanner
2025WSDMTutorial on Recommendation with Generative Models (Gen-RecSys).Yashar Deldjoo, Zhankui He, Julian J. McAuley, Anton Korikov, Scott Sanner, Arnau Ramisa, Ren Vidal, Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Silvia Milano
2024AAAIBayesian Inference with Complex Knowledge Graph Evidence.Armin Toroghi, Scott Sanner
2024EMNLPRight for Right Reasons: Large Language Models for Verifiable Commonsense Knowledge Graph Question Answering.Armin Toroghi, Willis Guo, Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour, Scott Sanner
2024EMNLPVerifiable, Debuggable, and Repairable Commonsense Logical Reasoning via LLM-based Theory Resolution.Armin Toroghi, Willis Guo, Ali Pesaranghader, Scott Sanner
2024ICAPSJaxPlan and GurobiPlan: Optimization Baselines for Replanning in Discrete and Mixed Discrete-Continuous Probabilistic Domains.Michael Gimelfarb, Ayal Taitler, Scott Sanner
2024KDDA Review of Modern Recommender Systems Using Generative Models (Gen-RecSys).Yashar Deldjoo, Zhankui He, Julian J. McAuley, Anton Korikov, Scott Sanner, Arnau Ramisa, Ren Vidal, Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Silvia Milano
2024NAACLGaussian Process Optimization for Adaptable Multi-Objective Text Generation using Linearly-Weighted Language Models.Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour, Ali Pesaranghader, Eldan Cohen, Scott Sanner
2024RecSysBayesian Optimization with LLM-Based Acquisition Functions for Natural Language Preference Elicitation.David Eric Austin, Anton Korikov, Armin Toroghi, Scott Sanner
2024RecSysThe 1st International Workshop on Risks, Opportunities, and Evaluation of Generative Models in Recommendation (ROEGEN).Yashar Deldjoo, Julian J. McAuley, Scott Sanner, Pablo Castells, Shuai Zhang, Enrico Palumbo
2024SIGIRRetrieval-Augmented Conversational Recommendation with Prompt-based Semi-Structured Natural Language State Tracking.Sara Kemper, Justin Cui, Kai Dicarlantonio, Kathy Lin, Danjie Tang, Anton Korikov, Scott Sanner
2023AAAIScalable and Globally Optimal Generalized L₁ K-center Clustering via Constraint Generation in Mixed Integer Linear Programming.Aravinth Chembu, Scott Sanner, Hassan Khurram, Akshat Kumar
2023AAAIGraphs, Constraints, and Search for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus.Yudong Xu, Elias B. Khalil, Scott Sanner
2023ACLDiffuDetox: A Mixed Diffusion Model for Text Detoxification.Griffin Floto, Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour, Parsa Farinneya, Zhenwei Tang, Ali Pesaranghader, Manasa Bharadwaj, Scott Sanner
2023CPAIORScalable and Near-Optimal ε-Tube Clusterwise Regression.Aravinth Chembu, Scott Sanner, Elias B. Khalil
2023CPAIORA Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Reduction of Disjoint Bilinear Programs via Symbolic Variable Elimination.Jihwan Jeong, Scott Sanner, Akshat Kumar
2023ECIRSelf-supervised Contrastive BERT Fine-tuning for Fusion-Based Reviewed-Item Retrieval.Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour, Parsa Farinneya, Armin Toroghi, Anton Korikov, Ali Pesaranghader, Touqir Sajed, Manasa Bharadwaj, Borislav Mavrin, Scott Sanner
2023EMNLPCOUNT: COntrastive UNlikelihood Text Style Transfer for Text Detoxification.Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour, Parsa Farinneya, Manasa Bharadwaj, Nikhil Verma, Ali Pesaranghader, Scott Sanner
2023ICASSPTowards Dialogue Modeling Beyond Text.Tongzi Wu, Yuhao Zhou, Wang Ling, Hojin Yang, Joana Veloso, Lin Sun, Ruixin Huang, Norberto Guimaraes, Scott Sanner
2023ICLRConservative Bayesian Model-Based Value Expansion for Offline Policy Optimization.Jihwan Jeong, Xiaoyu Wang, Michael Gimelfarb, Hyunwoo Kim, Baher Abdulhai, Scott Sanner
2023RecSysLarge Language Models are Competitive Near Cold-start Recommenders for Language- and Item-based Preferences.Scott Sanner, Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski, Ben Wedin, Lucas Dixon
2023SIGIRLogicRec: Recommendation with Users' Logical Requirements.Zhenwei Tang, Griffin Floto, Armin Toroghi, Shichao Pei, Xiangliang Zhang, Scott Sanner
2023SIGIRBayesian Knowledge-driven Critiquing with Indirect Evidence.Armin Toroghi, Griffin Floto, Zhenwei Tang, Scott Sanner
2023SIGIRRecipe-MPR: A Test Collection for Evaluating Multi-aspect Preference-based Natural Language Retrieval.Haochen Zhang, Anton Korikov, Parsa Farinneya, Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour, Manasa Bharadwaj, Ali Pesaranghader, Xi Yu Huang, Yi Xin Lok, Zhaoqi Wang, Nathan Jones, Scott Sanner
2022AAAISample-Efficient Iterative Lower Bound Optimization of Deep Reactive Policies for Planning in Continuous MDPs.Siow Meng Low, Akshat Kumar, Scott Sanner
2022AAAIA Distributional Framework for Risk-Sensitive End-to-End Planning in Continuous MDPs.Noah Patton, Jihwan Jeong, Mike Gimelfarb, Scott Sanner
2022ICMLAn Exact Symbolic Reduction of Linear Smart Predict+Optimize to Mixed Integer Linear Programming.Jihwan Jeong, Parth Jaggi, Andrew Butler, Scott Sanner
2022RCISWhat's in a (Data) Type? Meaningful Type Safety for Data Science.Riley Moher, Michael Gruninger, Scott Sanner
2022WWWDistributional Contrastive Embedding for Clarification-based Conversational Critiquing.Tianshu Shen, Zheda Mai, Ga Wu, Scott Sanner
2022SIGIRMitigating the Filter Bubble While Maintaining Relevance: Targeted Diversification with VAE-based Recommender Systems.Zhaolin Gao, Tianshu Shen, Zheda Mai, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Isaac Waller, Ashton Anderson, Ron Bodkin, Scott Sanner
2021AAAIOnline Class-Incremental Continual Learning with Adversarial Shapley Value.Dongsub Shim, Zheda Mai, Jihwan Jeong, Scott Sanner, Hyunwoo Kim, Jongseong Jang
2021CVPRSupervised Contrastive Replay: Revisiting the Nearest Class Mean Classifier in Online Class-Incremental Continual Learning.Zheda Mai, Ruiwen Li, Hyunwoo Kim, Scott Sanner
2021IJCAIBayesian Experience Reuse for Learning from Multiple Demonstrators.Mike Gimelfarb, Scott Sanner, Chi-Guhn Lee
2021IJCAISymbolic Dynamic Programming for Continuous State MDPs with Linear Program Transitions.Jihwan Jeong, Parth Jaggi, Scott Sanner
2021WWWA Workflow Analysis of Context-driven Conversational Recommendation.Shengnan Lyu, Arpit Rana, Scott Sanner, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek
2021SIGIRBayesian Critiquing with Keyphrase Activation Vectors for VAE-based Recommender Systems.Hojin Yang, Tianshu Shen, Scott Sanner
2021UAIContextual policy transfer in reinforcement learning domains via deep mixtures-of-experts.Michael Gimelfarb, Scott Sanner, Chi-Guhn Lee
2020ICDMAttentive Autoencoders for Multifaceted Preference Learning in One-class Collaborative Filtering.Zheda Mai, Ga Wu, Kai Luo, Scott Sanner
2020RecSysA Ranking Optimization Approach to Latent Linear Critiquing for Conversational Recommender Systems.Hanze Li, Scott Sanner, Kai Luo, Ga Wu
2020WWWLatent Linear Critiquing for Conversational Recommender Systems.Kai Luo, Scott Sanner, Ga Wu, Hanze Li, Hojin Yang
2020SIGIRDeep Critiquing for VAE-based Recommender Systems.Kai Luo, Hojin Yang, Ga Wu, Scott Sanner
2019AAAIDeep Reactive Policies for Planning in Stochastic Nonlinear Domains.Thiago Pereira Bueno, Leliane N. de Barros, Denis Deratani Mau, Scott Sanner
2019CHIIRRelevance-driven Clustering for Visual Information Retrieval on Twitter.Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Scott Sanner
2019CPReward Potentials for Planning with Learned Neural Network Transition Models.Buser Say, Scott Sanner, Sylvie Thibaux
2019CPAIORMetric Hybrid Factored Planning in Nonlinear Domains with Constraint Generation.Buser Say, Scott Sanner
2019RecSysDeep language-based critiquing for recommender systems.Ga Wu, Kai Luo, Scott Sanner, Harold Soh
2019SIGIROne-Class Collaborative Filtering with the Queryable Variational Autoencoder.Ga Wu, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Scott Sanner
2019SIGIRNoise Contrastive Estimation for One-Class Collaborative Filtering.Ga Wu, Maksims Volkovs, Chee Loong Soon, Scott Sanner, Himanshu Rai
2019UAIEpsilon-BMC: A Bayesian Ensemble Approach to Epsilon-Greedy Exploration in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning.Michael Gimelfarb, Scott Sanner, Chi-Guhn Lee
2019SDMA Novel Regularizer for Temporally Stable Learning with an Application to Twitter Topic Classification.Yakun Wang, Ga Wu, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Scott Sanner, Sen Su, Zhongbao Zhang
2018CPAIORSymbolic Bucket Elimination for Piecewise Continuous Constrained Optimization.Zhijiang Ye, Buser Say, Scott Sanner
2018IJCAIEfficient Symbolic Integration for Probabilistic Inference.Samuel Kolb, Martin Mladenov, Scott Sanner, Vaishak Belle, Kristian Kersting
2018IJCAIPlanning in Factored State and Action Spaces with Learned Binarized Neural Network Transition Models.Buser Say, Scott Sanner
2018RecSysTwo-stage Model for Automatic Playlist Continuation at Scale.Maksims Volkovs, Himanshu Rai, Zhaoyue Cheng, Ga Wu, Yichao Lu, Scott Sanner
2017AAAINonlinear Optimization and Symbolic Dynamic Programming for Parameterized Hybrid Markov Decision Processes.Shamin Kinathil, Harold Soh, Scott Sanner
2017AAAIHindsight Optimization for Hybrid State and Action MDPs.Aswin Raghavan, Scott Sanner, Roni Khardon, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
2017AAAIKnowledge-Based Provision of Goods and Services for People with Social Needs: Towards a Virtual Marketplace.Daniela Rosu, Dionne M. Aleman, J. Christopher Beck, Mark H. Chignell, Mariano P. Consens, Mark S. Fox, Michael Gruninger, Chang Liu, Yi Ru, Scott Sanner
2017AAAILow-Rank Linear Cold-Start Recommendation from Social Data.Suvash Sedhain, Aditya Krishna Menon, Scott Sanner, Lexing Xie, Darius Braziunas
2017IJCAINonlinear Hybrid Planning with Deep Net Learned Transition Models and Mixed-Integer Linear Programming.Buser Say, Ga Wu, Yu Qing Zhou, Scott Sanner
2017ICWSMA Longitudinal Study of Topic Classification on Twitter.Zahra Iman, Scott Sanner, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Lexing Xie
2017IUIDeep Sequential Recommendation for Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces.Harold Soh, Scott Sanner, Madeleine White, Greg A. Jamieson
2017SMCAn open source adaptive user interface for network monitoring.Sean W. Kortschot, Dusan Sovilj, Harold Soh, Greg A. Jamieson, Scott Sanner, Chelsea Carrasco, Scott Ralph, Scott Langevin
2017WWWExpecting to be HIP: Hawkes Intensity Processes for Social Media Popularity.Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie, Scott Sanner, Manuel Cebrin, Honglin Yu, Pascal Van Hentenryck
2017SoCSNon-Markovian Rewards Expressed in LTL: Guiding Search Via Reward Shaping.Alberto Camacho, Oscar Chen, Scott Sanner, Sheila A. McIlraith
2016AAAIClosed-Form Gibbs Sampling for Graphical Models with Algebraic Constraints.Hadi Mohasel Afshar, Scott Sanner, Christfried Webers
2016AAAIOn the Effectiveness of Linear Models for One-Class Collaborative Filtering.Suvash Sedhain, Aditya Krishna Menon, Scott Sanner, Darius Braziunas
2016IJCAIA Symbolic Closed-Form Solution to Sequential Market Making with Inventory.Shamin Kinathil, Scott Sanner, Sanmay Das, Nicols Della Penna
2016IJCAIPractical Linear Models for Large-Scale One-Class Collaborative Filtering.Suvash Sedhain, Hung Bui, Jaya Kawale, Nikos Vlassis, Branislav Kveton, Aditya Krishna Menon, Trung Bui, Scott Sanner
2015AAAILoss-Calibrated Monte Carlo Action Selection.Ehsan Abbasnejad, Justin Domke, Scott Sanner
2015AAAILinear-Time Gibbs Sampling in Piecewise Graphical Models.Hadi Mohasel Afshar, Scott Sanner, Ehsan Abbasnejad
2015AAAIReal-Time Symbolic Dynamic Programming.Luis Gustavo Rocha Vianna, Leliane N. de Barros, Scott Sanner
2015AAAIBayesian Model Averaging Naive Bayes (BMA-NB): Averaging over an Exponential Number of Feature Models in Linear Time.Ga Wu, Scott Sanner, Rodrigo F. S. C. Oliveira
2015ICAILA study of query reformulation for patent prior art search with partial patent applications.Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Scott Sanner, Gabriela Ferraro
2015ICWSMThe Lifecyle of a Youtube Video: Phases, Content and Popularity.Honglin Yu, Lexing Xie, Scott Sanner
2015PAKDDContext-Aware Detection of Sneaky Vandalism on Wikipedia Across Multiple Languages.Khoi-Nguyen Tran, Peter Christen, Scott Sanner, Lexing Xie
2015WWWAutoRec: Autoencoders Meet Collaborative Filtering.Suvash Sedhain, Aditya Krishna Menon, Scott Sanner, Lexing Xie
2015SIGIROn Term Selection Techniques for Patent Prior Art Search.Mona Golestan Far, Scott Sanner, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Gabriela Ferraro, David Hawking
2014RecSysSocial collaborative filtering for cold-start recommendations.Suvash Sedhain, Scott Sanner, Darius Braziunas, Lexing Xie, Jordan Christensen
2014UAIClosed-form Solutions to a Subclass of Continuous Stochastic Games via Symbolic Dynamic Programming.Shamin Kinathil, Scott Sanner, Nicols Della Penna
2014UAISequential Bayesian Optimisation for Spatial-Temporal Monitoring.Romn Marchant, Fabio Ramos, Scott Sanner
2013ICMLAlgorithms for Direct 0-1 Loss Optimization in Binary Classification.Tan Nguyen, Scott Sanner
2013IJCAILearning Community-Based Preferences via Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Gaussian Processes.Ehsan Abbasnejad, Scott Sanner, Edwin V. Bonilla, Pascal Poupart
2013IJCAIRobust Optimization for Hybrid MDPs with State-Dependent Noise.Zahra Zamani, Scott Sanner, Karina Valdivia Delgado, Leliane Nunes de Barros
2013SIGIRImproving LDA topic models for microblogs via tweet pooling and automatic labeling.Rishabh Mehrotra, Scott Sanner, Wray L. Buntine, Lexing Xie
2013UAIBounded Approximate Symbolic Dynamic Programming for Hybrid MDPs.Luis Gustavo Vianna, Scott Sanner, Leliane Nunes de Barros
2012AAAISymbolic Variable Elimination for Discrete and Continuous Graphical Models.Scott Sanner, Ehsan Abbasnejad
2012AAAISymbolic Dynamic Programming for Continuous State and Action MDPs.Zahra Zamani, Scott Sanner, Cheng Fang
2012WWWNew objective functions for social collaborative filtering.Joseph Noel, Scott Sanner, Khoi-Nguyen Tran, Peter Christen, Lexing Xie, Edwin V. Bonilla, Ehsan Abbasnejad, Nicols Della Penna
2012SIGIROn the mathematical relationship between expected n-call@k and the relevance vs. diversity trade-off.Kar Wai Lim, Scott Sanner, Shengbo Guo
2011CIKMDiverse retrieval via greedy optimization of expected 1-call@k in a latent subtopic relevance model.Scott Sanner, Shengbo Guo, Thore Graepel, Sadegh Kharazmi, Sarvnaz Karimi
2011IJCAIMulti-Evidence Lifted Message Passing, with Application to PageRank and the Kalman Filter.Babak Ahmadi, Kristian Kersting, Scott Sanner
2011UAISymbolic Dynamic Programming for Discrete and Continuous State MDPs.Scott Sanner, Karina Valdivia Delgado, Leliane Nunes de Barros
2010AAAISymbolic Dynamic Programming for First-order POMDPs.Scott Sanner, Kristian Kersting
2010ICMLTemporal Difference Bayesian Model Averaging: A Bayesian Perspective on Adapting Lambda.Carlton Downey, Scott Sanner
2010ISNNMultiattribute Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Pairwise Comparison Queries.Shengbo Guo, Scott Sanner
2010SIGIRProbabilistic latent maximal marginal relevance.Shengbo Guo, Scott Sanner
2009IJCAIBayesian Real-Time Dynamic Programming.Scott Sanner, Robby Goetschalckx, Kurt Driessens, Guy Shani
2008ECAIReinforcement Learning with the Use of Costly Features.Robby Goetschalckx, Scott Sanner, Kurt Driessens
2008ICDMCost-Sensitive Parsimonious Linear Regression.Robby Goetschalckx, Kurt Driessens, Scott Sanner
2006KRAn Ordered Theory Resolution Calculus for Hybrid Reasoning in First-Order Extensions of Description Logic.Scott Sanner, Sheila A. McIlraith
2006UAIPractical Linear Value-approximation Techniques for First-order MDPs.Scott Sanner, Craig Boutilier
2005IJCAIAffine Algebraic Decision Diagrams (AADDs) and their Application to Structured Probabilistic Inference.Scott Sanner, David A. McAllester
2005UAIApproximate Linear Programming for First-order MDPs.Scott Sanner, Craig Boutilier
2002IROSTowards object mapping in non-stationary environments with mobile robots.Rahul Biswas, Benson Limketkai, Scott Sanner, Sebastian Thrun
2000ICMLAchieving Efficient and Cognitively Plausible Learning in Backgammon.Scott Sanner, John R. Anderson, Christian Lebiere, Marsha C. Lovett