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In the basic recommendation paradigm, the most (predicted) relevant item is recommended to each user. This may result in some items receiving lower exposure than they "should"; to counter this, several algorithmic approaches have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Sophie Greenwood , Sudalakshmee Chiniah , Nikhil Garg

Recommender systems have been applied successfully in a number of different domains, such as, entertainment, commerce, and employment. Their success lies in their ability to exploit the collective behavior of users in order to deliver…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Virginia Tsintzou , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

Recommender systems are typically designed to fulfill end user needs. However, in some domains the users are not the only stakeholders in the system. For instance, in a news aggregator website users, authors, magazines as well as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alireza Gharahighehi , Celine Vens , Konstantinos Pliakos

Recommender systems are personalized: we expect the results given to a particular user to reflect that user's preferences. Some researchers have studied the notion of calibration, how well recommendations match users' stated preferences,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Kun Lin , Nasim Sonboli , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke

Many recommendation algorithms suffer from popularity bias: a small number of popular items being recommended too frequently, while other items get insufficient exposure. Research in this area so far has concentrated on a one-shot…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Himan Abdollahpouri , Robin Burke

Optimizing outcomes for multiple stakeholders in recommender systems has historically focused on algorithmic interventions, such as developing multi-objective models or re-ranking results from existing algorithms. However, structural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Anas Buhayh , Elizabeth McKinnie , Clement Canel , Robin Burke

Many recommender systems suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular items are being recommended frequently while less popular, niche products, are recommended rarely if not at all. However, those ignored products are exactly the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Himan Abdollahpouri , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Research has shown that recommender systems are typically biased towards popular items, which leads to less popular items being underrepresented in recommendations. The recent work of Abdollahpouri et al. in the context of movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Dominik Kowald , Markus Schedl , Elisabeth Lex

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

Imagine a food recommender system -- how would we check if it is \emph{causing} and fostering unhealthy eating habits or merely reflecting users' interests? How much of a user's experience over time with a recommender is caused by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Sirui Yao , Yoni Halpern , Nithum Thain , Xuezhi Wang , Kang Lee , Flavien Prost , Ed H. Chi , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel

Recommender systems usually learn user interests from various user behaviors, including clicks and post-click behaviors (e.g., like and favorite). However, these behaviors inevitably exhibit popularity bias, leading to some unfairness…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xi Wang , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Wenge Rong , Chuantao Yin , Zhang Xiong

The suggestions generated by most existing recommender systems are known to suffer from a lack of diversity, and other issues like popularity bias. As a result, they have been observed to promote well-known "blockbuster" items, and to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Bibek Paudel , Abraham Bernstein

What we discover and see online, and consequently our opinions and decisions, are becoming increasingly affected by automated machine learned predictions. Similarly, the predictive accuracy of learning machines heavily depends on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Sami Khenissi , Olfa Nasraoui

Popularity bias is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. Such a bias exerts detrimental impact on both users and item providers, and many efforts have been dedicated to studying and solving such a bias. However, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ziwei Zhu , Yun He , Xing Zhao , James Caverlee

Recommender systems often suffer from popularity bias, where popular items are overly recommended while sacrificing unpopular items. Existing researches generally focus on ensuring the number of recommendations exposure of each item is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yuanhao Liu , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Yunfan Wu , Shuchang Tao , Xueqi Cheng

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

Recommender systems can be found everywhere today, shaping our everyday experience whenever we're consuming content, ordering food, buying groceries online, or even just reading the news. Let's imagine we're in the process of building a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Cécile Logé

We propose a simple model of an idealized online cultural market in which $N$ items, endowed with a hidden quality metric, are recommended to users by a ranking algorithm possibly biased by the current items' popularity. Our goal is to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Rossano Gaeta , Michele Garetto , Giancarlo Ruffo , Alessandro Flammini

Multimedia recommender systems suggest media items, e.g., songs, (digital) books and movies, to users by utilizing concepts of traditional recommender systems such as collaborative filtering. In this paper, we investigate a potential issue…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dominik Kowald , Emanuel Lacic

Recommendation systems are widespread, and through customized recommendations, promise to match users with options they will like. To that end, data on engagement is collected and used. Most recommendation systems are ranking-based, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Omar Besbes , Yash Kanoria , Akshit Kumar