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It has become increasingly clear that recommender systems that overly focus on short-term engagement prevents users from exploring diverse interests, ultimately hurting long-term user experience. To tackle this challenge, numerous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yuyan Wang , Cheenar Banerjee , Samer Chucri , Fabio Soldo , Sriraj Badam , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

Whereas previous post-processing approaches for increasing the fairness of predictions of biased classifiers address only group fairness, we propose a method for increasing both individual and group fairness. Our novel framework includes an…

Recommender systems are being employed across an increasingly diverse set of domains that can potentially make a significant social and individual impact. For this reason, considering fairness is a critical step in the design and evaluation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Charles Dickens , Rishika Singh , Lise Getoor

Relevance and diversity are both important to the success of recommender systems, as they help users to discover from a large pool of items a compact set of candidates that are not only interesting but exploratory as well. The challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yifang Liu , Zhentao Xu , Qiyuan An , Yang Yi , Yanzhi Wang , Trevor Hastie

One of the many fairness definitions pursued in recent recommender system research targets mitigating demographic information encoded in model representations. Models optimized for this definition are typically evaluated on how well…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bjørnar Vassøy , Benjamin Kille , Helge Langseth

Algorithmic systems have been used to inform consequential decisions for at least a century. Recidivism prediction dates back to the 1920s. Automated credit scoring dates began in the middle of the last century, but the last decade has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-13 David C. Parkes , Rakesh V. Vohra , other workshop participants

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems provide personalized recommendations to users and help businesses attract potential customers. Despite their success, recent studies suggest that highly data-driven recommendations could be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Hossein A. Rahmani , Yashar Deldjoo , Ali Tourani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei

Recommender systems underpin many of the personalized services in the online information & social media ecosystem. However, the assumptions in the research on content recommendations in domains like search, video, and music are often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Nathan Bartley , Kristina Lerman

In addition to their benefits, optimization systems can have negative economic, moral, social, and political effects on populations as well as their environments. Frameworks like fairness have been proposed to aid service providers in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Rebekah Overdorf , Bogdan Kulynych , Ero Balsa , Carmela Troncoso , Seda Gürses

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used to make or support decisions in a wide range of settings. With such expansive use there is also growing concern about the fairness of such methods. Prior literature on algorithmic fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Arindam Ray , Balaji Padmanabhan , Lina Bouayad

In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that when machine learning (ML) algorithms are used to automate decisions, they may mistreat individuals or groups, with legal, ethical, or economic implications. Recommender systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Yashar Deldjoo

Recommender system has been researched for decades with millions of different versions of algorithms created in the industry. In spite of the huge amount of work spent on the field, there are many basic questions to be answered in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Hao Wang

In recent years, recommendation and ranking systems have become increasingly popular on digital platforms. However, previous work has highlighted how personalized systems might lead to unintentional harms for users. Practitioners require…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Jessie J. Smith , Lex Beattie

We address the critical issue of biased algorithms and unfair rankings, which have permeated various sectors, including search engines, recommendation systems, and workforce management. These biases can lead to discriminatory outcomes in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chiara Criscuolo , Davide Martinenghi , Giuseppe Piccirillo

Using multiple carousels, lists that wrap around and can be scrolled, is the basis for offering content in most contemporary movie streaming platforms. Carousels allow for highlighting different aspects of users' taste, that fall in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Daniël Wilten , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Arjen Hommersom , Paul Lucassen , Emiel Poortman

Today, recommender systems have played an increasingly important role in shaping our experiences of digital environments and social interactions. However, as recommender systems become ubiquitous in our society, recent years have also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Michinari Momma , Yi Sun

As a key application of artificial intelligence, recommender systems are among the most pervasive computer aided systems to help users find potential items of interests. Recently, researchers paid considerable attention to fairness issues…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Le Wu , Lei Chen , Pengyang Shao , Richang Hong , Xiting Wang , Meng Wang

In the past few years, there has been much work on incorporating fairness requirements into algorithmic rankers, with contributions coming from the data management, algorithms, information retrieval, and recommender systems communities. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Meike Zehlike , Ke Yang , Julia Stoyanovich

Algorithms are increasingly used to guide high-stakes decisions about individuals. Consequently, substantial interest has developed around defining and measuring the ``fairness'' of these algorithms. These definitions of fair algorithms…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-09 Annie Liang , Jay Lu

The emergence and growth of research on issues of ethics in AI, and in particular algorithmic fairness, has roots in an essential observation that structural inequalities in society are reflected in the data used to train predictive models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Caitlin Kuhlman , Latifa Jackson , Rumi Chunara