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Scott Sanner

University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Canada

28 papers at tracked venues · 20 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×6AAAI ×5EMNLP ×4SIGIR ×4ICML ×2RecSys ×2ICLR ×1NAACL ×1NeurIPS ×1SIGKDD ×1WSDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Armin Toroghi
×9
Anton Korikov
×7
Jiazhou Liang
×6
Ali Pesaranghader
×5
Yifan Simon Liu
×4
Yashar Deldjoo
×4
Julian J. McAuley
×4
Justin Cui
×3
Qianfeng Wen
×3
Mark Zhao
×3
Xiaotian Liu
×3
Tanmana Sadhu
×3

Papers

  1. Bayesian Active Learning with Gaussian Processes Guided by LLM Relevance Scoring for Dense Passage Retrieval
    ACL 2026 ·
    Junyoung Kim
    ,
    Anton Korikov
    ,
    Jiazhou Liang
    ,
    Justin Cui
    ,
    Yifan Simon Liu
    ,
    Qianfeng Wen
    ,
    Mark Zhao
    , Scott Sanner
  2. CommonWhy: A Dataset for Evaluating Entity-Based Causal Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Armin Toroghi
    ,
    Faeze Moradi Kalarde
    , Scott Sanner
  3. Efficient Modality Translation via Arbitrary Conditioning and Wasserstein Regularization
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Tomás Tokár
    , Scott Sanner
  4. Evaluating Scene-based In-Situ Item Labeling for Immersive Conversational Recommendation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jiazhou Liang
    ,
    Yifan Simon Liu
    ,
    David Guo
    ,
    Yilun Jiang
    ,
    Minqi Sun
    , Scott Sanner
  5. Multimodal Item Scoring for Natural Language Recommendation via Gaussian Process Regression with LLM Relevance Judgments
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yifan Simon Liu
    ,
    Qianfeng Wen
    ,
    Jiazhou Liang
    ,
    Mark Zhao
    ,
    Justin Cui
    ,
    Anton Korikov
    ,
    Armin Toroghi
    ,
    Junyoung Kim
    , Scott Sanner
  6. Near-optimal Linear Predictive Clustering in Non-separable Spaces via MIP and QPBO Reductions
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Jiazhou Liang
    ,
    Hassan Khurram
    , Scott Sanner
  7. Semantic XPath: Structured Agentic Memory Access for Conversational AI
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yifan Simon Liu
    ,
    Ruifan Wu
    ,
    Liam Gallagher
    ,
    Jiazhou Liang
    ,
    Armin Toroghi
    , Scott Sanner
  8. ActiveVOO: Value of Observation Guided Active Knowledge Acquisition for Open-World Embodied Lifted Regression Planning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xiaotian Liu
    ,
    Ali Pesaranghader
    ,
    Jaehong Kim
    ,
    Tanmana Sadhu
    ,
    Hyejeong Jeon
    , Scott Sanner
  9. Batched Self-Consistency Improves LLM Relevance Assessment and Ranking
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Anton Korikov
    ,
    Pan Du
    , Scott Sanner,
    Navid Rekabsaz
  10. CoLoTa: A Dataset for Entity-based Commonsense Reasoning over Long-Tail Knowledge
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Armin Toroghi
    ,
    Willis Guo
    , Scott Sanner
  11. GENNEXT: The Next Generation of IR and Recommender Systems with Language Agents, Generative Models, and Conversational AI
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Yashar Deldjoo
    , Scott Sanner,
    Enrico Palumbo
    ,
    Hugues Bouchard
    ,
    Shuai Zhang
    ,
    Pablo Castells
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  12. ICE-T: Interactions-aware Cross-column Contrastive Embedding for Heterogeneous Tabular Datasets
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Tomás Tokár
    , Scott Sanner
  13. LLM-based Typed Hyperresolution for Commonsense Reasoning with Knowledge Bases
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Armin Toroghi
    ,
    Ali Pesaranghader
    ,
    Tanmana Sadhu
    , Scott Sanner
  14. MA-DPR: Manifold-aware Distance Metrics for Dense Passage Retrieval
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yifan Liu
    ,
    Qianfeng Wen
    ,
    Mark Zhao
    ,
    Jiazhou Liang
    , Scott Sanner
  15. ModelDiff: Symbolic Dynamic Programming for Model-Aware Policy Transfer in Deep Q-Learning
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Xiaotian Liu
    ,
    Jihwan Jeong
    ,
    Ayal Taitler
    ,
    Michael Gimelfarb
    , Scott Sanner
  16. Open-World Planning via Lifted Regression with LLM-Inferred Affordances for Embodied Agents
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xiaotian Liu
    ,
    Ali Pesaranghader
    ,
    Hanze Li
    ,
    Punyaphat Sukcharoenchaikul
    ,
    Jaehong Kim
    ,
    Tanmana Sadhu
    ,
    Hyejeong Jeon
    , Scott Sanner
  17. Q-STRUM Debate: Query-Driven Contrastive Summarization for Recommendation Comparison
    ACL 2025 ·
    George-Kirollos Saad
    , Scott Sanner
  18. Reflect-then-Plan: Offline Model-Based Planning through a Doubly Bayesian Lens
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jihwan Jeong
    ,
    Xiaoyu Wang
    ,
    Jingmin Wang
    , Scott Sanner,
    Pascal Poupart
  19. Self-Supervised Transformers as Iterative Solution Improvers for Constraint Satisfaction
    ICML 2025 ·
    Yudong Xu
    ,
    Wenhao Li
    , Scott Sanner,
    Elias Boutros Khalil
  20. Tutorial on Recommendation with Generative Models (Gen-RecSys)
    WSDM 2025 ·
    Yashar Deldjoo
    ,
    Zhankui He
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Anton Korikov
    , Scott Sanner,
    Arnau Ramisa
    ,
    René Vidal
    ,
    Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy
    ,
    Atoosa Kasirzadeh
    ,
    Silvia Milano
  21. A Review of Modern Recommender Systems Using Generative Models (Gen-RecSys)
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Yashar Deldjoo
    ,
    Zhankui He
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Anton Korikov
    , Scott Sanner,
    Arnau Ramisa
    ,
    René Vidal
    ,
    Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy
    ,
    Atoosa Kasirzadeh
    ,
    Silvia Milano
  22. Bayesian Inference with Complex Knowledge Graph Evidence
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Armin Toroghi
    , Scott Sanner
  23. Bayesian Optimization with LLM-Based Acquisition Functions for Natural Language Preference Elicitation
    RecSys 2024 ·
    David Eric Austin
    ,
    Anton Korikov
    ,
    Armin Toroghi
    , Scott Sanner
  24. Gaussian Process Optimization for Adaptable Multi-Objective Text Generation using Linearly-Weighted Language Models
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour
    ,
    Ali Pesaranghader
    ,
    Eldan Cohen
    , Scott Sanner
  25. Retrieval-Augmented Conversational Recommendation with Prompt-based Semi-Structured Natural Language State Tracking
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Sara Kemper
    ,
    Justin Cui
    ,
    Kai Dicarlantonio
    ,
    Kathy Lin
    ,
    Danjie Tang
    ,
    Anton Korikov
    , Scott Sanner
  26. Right for Right Reasons: Large Language Models for Verifiable Commonsense Knowledge Graph Question Answering
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Armin Toroghi
    ,
    Willis Guo
    ,
    Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour
    , Scott Sanner
  27. The 1st International Workshop on Risks, Opportunities, and Evaluation of Generative Models in Recommendation (ROEGEN)
    RecSys 2024 ·
    Yashar Deldjoo
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    , Scott Sanner,
    Pablo Castells
    ,
    Shuai Zhang
    ,
    Enrico Palumbo
  28. Verifiable, Debuggable, and Repairable Commonsense Logical Reasoning via LLM-based Theory Resolution
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Armin Toroghi
    ,
    Willis Guo
    ,
    Ali Pesaranghader
    , Scott Sanner