Relative Relevance
Relative relevance, in various contexts, focuses on identifying and prioritizing information crucial for specific tasks or objectives, improving efficiency and accuracy. Current research emphasizes developing methods to quantify relevance, often employing probabilistic frameworks, large language models (LLMs), and neural networks (including transformer architectures) to achieve this. These advancements are impacting diverse fields, from human-robot collaboration and recommender systems to information retrieval and medical diagnosis, by enhancing decision-making processes and improving the quality of results. The ultimate goal is to create systems that not only identify relevant information but also understand and adapt to changing contexts and user needs.
Papers
From Redundancy to Relevance: Information Flow in LVLMs Across Reasoning Tasks
Xiaofeng Zhang, Yihao Quan, Chen Shen, Xiaosong Yuan, Shaotian Yan, Liang Xie, Wenxiao Wang, Chaochen Gu, Hao Tang, Jieping Ye
Robust Interaction-Based Relevance Modeling for Online e-Commerce Search
Ben Chen, Huangyu Dai, Xiang Ma, Wen Jiang, Wei Ning