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There is a growing body of work on learning from human feedback to align various aspects of machine learning systems with human values and preferences. We consider the setting of fairness in content moderation, in which human feedback is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Emilia Agis Lerner , Florian E. Dorner , Elliott Ash , Naman Goel

Recommendation system has been widely used in different areas. Collaborative filtering focuses on rating, ignoring the features of items itself. In order to effectively evaluate customers preferences on books, taking into consideration of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Xixi Li , Jiahao Xing , Haihui Wang , Lingfang Zheng , Suling Jia , Qiang Wang

While popularity bias is recognized to play a crucial role in recommmender (and other ranking-based) systems, detailed analysis of its impact on collective user welfare has largely been lacking. We propose and theoretically analyze a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Guy Tennenholtz , Martin Mladenov , Nadav Merlis , Robert L. Axtell , Craig Boutilier

Prior work on personalized recommendations has focused on exploiting explicit signals from user-specific queries, clicks, likes, and ratings. This paper investigates tapping into a different source of implicit signals of interests and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

Social animals, including humans, have a broad range of personality traits, which can be used to predict individual behavioral responses and decisions. Current methods to quantify individual personality traits in humans rely on self-report…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yuval Samoilov-Katz , Yoram Louzoun , Lev Muchnik , Adam Zaidel

Several studies have identified discrepancies between the popularity of items in user profiles and the corresponding recommendation lists. Such behavior, which concerns a variety of recommendation algorithms, is referred to as popularity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Oleg Lesota , Alessandro B. Melchiorre , Navid Rekabsaz , Stefan Brandl , Dominik Kowald , Elisabeth Lex , Markus Schedl

With an increasing number of users sharing information online, privacy implications entailing such actions are a major concern. For explicit content, such as user profile or GPS data, devices (e.g. mobile phones) as well as web services…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

The pervasive use of social media provides massive data about individuals' online social activities and their social relations. The building block of most existing recommendation systems is the similarity between users with social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Ghazaleh Beigi , Huan Liu

Tagging is a popular feature that supports several collaborative tasks, including search, as tags produced by one user can help others finding relevant content. However, task performance depends on the existence of 'good' tags. A first step…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Elizeu Santos-Neto , Flavio Figueiredo , Nigini Oliveira , Nazareno Andrade , Jussara Almeida , Matei Ripeanu

Although personalization is widely advocated in gamified learning, empirical evidence on how learner characteristics and task context shape motivational preferences remains limited. This study examines how user characteristics and learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Anna Katharina Ricker , Kai Marquardt , Lucia Happe

The present paper examines the relationship between the students personality, use of social media and their academic performance and engagement. In specific, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship of students facebook (fb) use…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Georgia Sapsani , Nikolaos Tselios

Automatic profiling of social media users is an important task for supporting a multitude of downstream applications. While a number of studies have used social media content to extract and study collective social attributes, there is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Konstantinos Pappas , Rada Mihalcea

Recent critiques of Artificial-intelligence (AI)-generated visual content highlight concerns about the erosion of artistic originality, as these systems often replicate patterns from their training datasets, leading to significant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Maria-Teresa De Rosa Palmini , Eva Cetinic

Recommender systems play a vital role in helping users discover content in streaming services, but their effectiveness depends on users understanding why items are recommended. In this study, explanations were based solely on item features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Juan Ahmad , Jonas Hellgren , Alan Said

The observation that individuals tend to be friends with people who are similar to themselves, commonly known as homophily, is a prominent and well-studied feature of social networks. Many machine learning methods exploit homophily to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Kristen M. Altenburger , Johan Ugander

Book covers communicate information to potential readers, but can that same information be learned by computers? We propose using a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to predict the genre of a book based on the visual clues provided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Brian Kenji Iwana , Syed Tahseen Raza Rizvi , Sheraz Ahmed , Andreas Dengel , Seiichi Uchida

The affective attitude of liking a recommended item reflects just one category in a wide spectrum of affective phenomena that also includes emotions such as entranced or intrigued, moods such as cheerful or buoyant, as well as more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Tonmoy Hasan , Razvan Bunescu

Predicting the future popularity of online content is highly important in many applications. Preferential attachment phenomena is encountered in scale free networks.Under it's influece popular items get more popular thereby resulting in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Khushnood Abbas , Shang Mingsheng , Luo Xin

Recommender systems help users discover new content, but can also reinforce existing biases, leading to unfair exposure and reduced diversity. This paper introduces and investigates thematic bias in book recommendations, defined as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Nityaa Kalra , Savvina Daniil

Predicting risk profiles of individuals in networks (e.g.~susceptibility to a particular disease, or likelihood of smoking) is challenging for a variety of reasons. For one, `local' features (such as an individual's demographic information)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Olivia Simpson , Julian McAuley