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Today for poster session 3 from 11:30 to 13:00, at Hall C4-9 #2607, I will present our paper with Harrie Oosterhuis and Avishek Anand about local feature selection for interpretable ML. Join me to discuss building intrinsically interpretable models, and the pitfalls previous work fell into.

Some CONSEQUENCES'24 updates! 📣📢📯 The submission deadline is three weeks away (August 30th), see the CFP: sites.google.com/view/consequen… We accept 2-page abstracts of published or original work. Looking forward to your submissions! and for our amazing keynote speakers see 👇🧵

Very happy that we managed to get two amazing keynote speakers for this edition of CONSEQUENCES!

The Arxiv version of our CIKM paper on safe doubly-robust counterfactual learning to rank method is out here: arxiv.org/abs/2407.19943. Harrie Oosterhuis Maarten de Rijke

This year's ACM RecSys CONSEQUENCES in-workshop will be given by our very own Yuta Saito! 😄 Yuta Saito Counterfactual Learning and Evaluation for Recommender Systems: from Foundations to Emerging Challenges in the Era of LLMs More info: sites.google.com/view/consequen… #RecSys2024

The CONSEQUENCES workshop on Causality, Counterfactuals & Sequential Decision-Making in RecSys is only 7 weeks away! That also means our submission deadline is roughly one week away: make sure to submit in time for a chance to present your work in beautiful Bari at #RecSys2024.

Our submission deadline for 2-page extended abstracts is one week away! ⏰

Four days left to submit your contributions! ⏰⌛️📢 If you plan on submitting, it's always a good idea to create a submission on EasyChair a couple of days before the deadline, and update it before the deadline.

A little more than 24 hours to go! ⏲️⌛️ We are looking forward to your submissions. 😄

I've uploaded a new lecture about the road to doubly robust estimation for counterfactual learning to rank. It provides a nice overview of general counterfactual estimation and my recent work on making advanced methods applicable to position bias: youtube.com/watch?v=bmhClx… Enjoy!😄

Did you miss Harrie's tutorial at CONSEQUENCES 2023? 😭 Don't worry! 😉 You can now find a free recording of it on YouTube! 🥳

The CONSEQUENCES 2024 notifications are out!😮 This year, sixteen works have been accepted, a new record for us! 😁 See the full list here: sites.google.com/view/consequen… Congratulations to all authors of accepted works! 🥳🎉 See you in lovely Bari! 🇮🇹🍝🍷🌞

Did you notice that Michael I. Jordan was our keynote speaker LAST year and is now THIS year's ACM RecSys keynote speaker?! 🧐 We did not do any causal inference 🤓 but potentially you can see NEXT year's RecSys keynote at THIS year's CONSEQUENCES! 😄😂

Really proud of the amazing and diverse program that we are hosting this year! 😊

This year's program will have two keynotes and a tutorial, in addition to eight oral presentations of workshop contributions and a poster session. Full abstracts and programme can be found on our website: sites.google.com/view/consequen…

The recording of #ICTIR2024 is now freely available on ACM's YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=MOey5Z… Enjoy reliving our amazing program in July, including the keynote by Minmin Chen and all paper presentations. 😄🤩

Thank you to Harrie Oosterhuis for the pointer to the video of ICTIR 2024 presentations, which includes an outstanding keynote from Minmin Chen (principal research scientist at Google Deepmind) detailing YouTube changes that encourage exploration of new content youtu.be/MOey5ZRBAJg?si…

#RECSYS2024 ACM RecSys has concluded. 🥹 We had a great #CONSEQUENCES2024 workshop on Monday, our thanks go to all presenters for their contributions and to everyone attending! 😄 (Maybe see you all again in Prague in 2025.)