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Personalized recommendation brings about novel challenges in ensuring fairness, especially in scenarios in which users are not the only stakeholders involved in the recommender system. For example, the system may want to ensure that items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Weiwen Liu , Robin Burke

Prior research on exposure fairness in the context of recommender systems has focused mostly on disparities in the exposure of individual or groups of items to individual users of the system. The problem of how individual or groups of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Haolun Wu , Bhaskar Mitra , Chen Ma , Fernando Diaz , Xue Liu

Fairness is a critical system-level objective in recommender systems that has been the subject of extensive recent research. It is especially important in multi-sided recommendation platforms where it may be crucial to optimize utilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Masoud Mansoury

As information filtering services, recommender systems have extremely enriched our daily life by providing personalized suggestions and facilitating people in decision-making, which makes them vital and indispensable to human society in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Di Jin , Luzhi Wang , He Zhang , Yizhen Zheng , Weiping Ding , Feng Xia , Shirui Pan

Popularity bias is a well-known issue in recommender systems where few popular items are over-represented in the input data, while majority of other less popular items are under-represented. This disparate representation often leads to bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Masoud Mansoury , Finn Duijvestijn , Imane Mourabet

Fairness is an emerging and challenging topic in recommender systems. In recent years, various ways of evaluating and therefore improving fairness have emerged. In this study, we examine existing evaluation measures of fairness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Theresia Veronika Rampisela , Maria Maistro , Tuukka Ruotsalo , Christina Lioma

With the rapid development of recommender systems, accuracy is no longer the only golden criterion for evaluating whether the recommendation results are satisfying or not. In recent years, diversity has gained tremendous attention in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Qiong Wu , Yong Liu , Chunyan Miao , Yin Zhao , Lu Guan , Haihong Tang

Fairness in AI-driven decision-making systems has become a critical concern, especially when these systems directly affect human lives. This paper explores the public's comprehension of fairness in healthcare recommendations. We conducted a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Veronica Kecki , Alan Said

Algorithmic fairness in the context of personalized recommendation presents significantly different challenges to those commonly encountered in classification tasks. Researchers studying classification have generally considered fairness to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Amanda Aird , Paresha Farastu , Joshua Sun , Elena Štefancová , Cassidy All , Amy Voida , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

The lack of bias management in Recommender Systems leads to minority groups receiving unfair recommendations. Moreover, the trade-off between equity and precision makes it difficult to obtain recommendations that meet both criteria. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jesús Bobadilla , Raúl Lara-Cabrera , Ángel González-Prieto , Fernando Ortega

Fairness is a critical system-level objective in recommender systems that has been the subject of extensive recent research. A specific form of fairness is supplier exposure fairness where the objective is to ensure equitable coverage of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Masoud Mansoury , Himan Abdollahpouri , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke

The proliferation of personalized recommendation technologies has raised concerns about discrepancies in their recommendation performance across different genders, age groups, and racial or ethnic populations. This varying degree of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Masoud Mansoury , Himan Abdollahpouri , Jessie Smith , Arman Dehpanah , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bamshad Mobasher

We propose a control-theoretic interpretation of recommender systems and use this perspective to analyze how fairness interventions shape long-term system behavior. Fairness concerns arise for both users and creators, ranging from opinion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Giulia De Pasquale , Sarah Dean , Paolo Frasca

Recommender systems are gaining increasing and critical impacts on human and society since a growing number of users use them for information seeking and decision making. Therefore, it is crucial to address the potential unfairness problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yunqi Li , Hanxiong Chen , Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Yongfeng Zhang

Recommender systems are one of the most widely used services on several online platforms to suggest potential items to the end-users. These services often use different machine learning techniques for which fairness is a concerning factor,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Aadi Swadipto Mondal , Rakesh Bal , Sayan Sinha , Gourab K Patro

Recommender systems are essential for personalizing digital experiences on e-commerce sites, streaming services, and social media platforms. While these systems are necessary for modern digital interactions, they face fairness, bias,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Falguni Roy , Xiaofeng Ding , K. -K. R. Choo , Pan Zhou

We study fairness in collaborative-filtering recommender systems, which are sensitive to discrimination that exists in historical data. Biased data can lead collaborative-filtering methods to make unfair predictions for users from minority…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Sirui Yao , Bert Huang

Building fair recommender systems is a challenging and crucial area of study due to its immense impact on society. We extended the definitions of two commonly accepted notions of fairness to recommender systems, namely equality of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-12 Preetam Nandy , Cyrus Diciccio , Divya Venugopalan , Heloise Logan , Kinjal Basu , Noureddine El Karoui

The applications of personalized recommender systems are rapidly expanding: encompassing social media, online shopping, search engine results, and more. These systems offer a more efficient way to navigate the vast array of items available.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jennifer Chien , David Danks

Fairness in recommender systems has been considered with respect to sensitive attributes of users (e.g., gender, race) or items (e.g., revenue in a multistakeholder setting). Regardless, the concept has been commonly interpreted as some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yashar Deldjoo , Vito Walter Anelli , Hamed Zamani , Alejandro Bellogin , Tommaso Di Noia