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We increasingly depend on a variety of data-driven algorithmic systems to assist us in many aspects of life. Search engines and recommender systems amongst others are used as sources of information and to help us in making all sort of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Evaggelia Pitoura , Kostas Stefanidis , Georgia Koutrika

Rankings are ubiquitous in the online world today. As we have transitioned from finding books in libraries to ranking products, jobs, job applicants, opinions and potential romantic partners, there is a substantial precedent that ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Ashudeep Singh , Thorsten Joachims

Recommender systems are often biased toward popular items. In other words, few items are frequently recommended while the majority of items do not get proportionate attention. That leads to low coverage of items in recommendation lists…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Masoud Mansoury , Himan Abdollahpouri , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke

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 against minority groups…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Sirui Yao , Bert Huang

Recommender systems are an essential tool to relieve the information overload challenge and play an important role in people's daily lives. Since recommendations involve allocations of social resources (e.g., job recommendation), an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yifan Wang , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma

Recommender systems are one of the most pervasive applications of machine learning in industry, with many services using them to match users to products or information. As such it is important to ask: what are the possible fairness risks,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alex Beutel , Jilin Chen , Tulsee Doshi , Hai Qian , Li Wei , Yi Wu , Lukasz Heldt , Zhe Zhao , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi , Cristos Goodrow

Algorithmic decision-making systems are increasingly used throughout the public and private sectors to make important decisions or assist humans in making these decisions with real social consequences. While there has been substantial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Ruotong Wang , F. Maxwell Harper , Haiyi Zhu

Recent studies have shown that recommendation systems commonly suffer from popularity bias. Popularity bias refers to the problem that popular items (i.e., frequently rated items) are recommended frequently while less popular items are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Hossein A. Rahmani , Mahdi Dehghan

Recent work on machine learning has begun to consider issues of fairness. In this paper, we extend the concept of fairness to recommendation. In particular, we show that in some recommendation contexts, fairness may be a multisided concept,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Robin Burke

The last several years have brought a growing body of work on ensuring that recommender systems are in some sense consumer-fair -- that is, they provide comparable quality of service, accuracy of representation, and other effects to their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Michael D. Ekstrand , Maria Soledad Pera

There has been growing attention on fairness considerations recently, especially in the context of intelligent decision making systems. Explainable recommendation systems, in particular, may suffer from both explanation bias and performance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zuohui Fu , Yikun Xian , Ruoyuan Gao , Jieyu Zhao , Qiaoying Huang , Yingqiang Ge , Shuyuan Xu , Shijie Geng , Chirag Shah , Yongfeng Zhang , Gerard de Melo

Enabling non-discrimination for end-users of recommender systems by introducing consumer fairness is a key problem, widely studied in both academia and industry. Current research has led to a variety of notions, metrics, and unfairness…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras , Giacomo Medda

Recommender systems are known to suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular (i.e. frequently rated) items get a lot of exposure while less popular ones are under-represented in the recommendations. Research in this area has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Online dating platforms have fundamentally transformed the formation of romantic relationships, with millions of users worldwide relying on algorithmic matching systems to find compatible partners. However, current recommendation systems in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Madhav Kotecha

Recently, there has been a rising awareness that when machine learning (ML) algorithms are used to automate choices, they may treat/affect individuals unfairly, with legal, ethical, or economic consequences. Recommender systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Hossein A. Rahmani , Yashar Deldjoo

Recommender systems have become a pervasive part of our daily online experience, and are one of the most widely used applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Therefore, regulations and requirements for trustworthy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Dominik Kowald

In this study, we examined the impact of recommendation systems' algorithms on individuals' collaborator choices when forming teams. Different algorithmic designs can lead individuals to select one collaborator over another, thereby shaping…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Diego Gomez-Zara , Victoria Kam , Charles Chiang , Leslie DeChurch , Noshir Contractor

Academic research in recommender systems has been greatly focusing on the accuracy-related measures of recommendations. Even when non-accuracy measures such as popularity bias, diversity, and novelty are studied, it is often solely from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury

Fairness-aware recommender systems often mitigate bias by increasing exposure to under-represented or long-tail content, commonly through mechanisms that promote novelty and diversity. In practice, the strength of such interventions is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Enock O. Ayiku , Evelyn Osei , Emebo Onyeka

Algorithmic fairness is receiving significant attention in the academic and broader literature due to the increasing use of predictive algorithms, including those based on artificial intelligence. One benefit of this trend is that algorithm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Pratyush Garg , John Villasenor , Virginia Foggo