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Decisions suggested by improperly designed software systems might be prone to discriminate against people based on protected characteristics, such as gender and ethnicity. Previous studies attribute such undesired behavior to flaws in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qusai Ramadan , Jukka Ruohonen , Abhishek Tiwari , Adam Alami , Zeyd Boukhers

Algorithmic fairness is a major concern in recent years as the influence of machine learning algorithms becomes more widespread. In this paper, we investigate the issue of algorithmic fairness from a network-centric perspective.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Farzan Masrour , Pang-Ning Tan , Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian

The issue of fairness in recommendation is becoming increasingly essential as Recommender Systems touch and influence more and more people in their daily lives. In fairness-aware recommendation, most of the existing algorithmic approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yingqiang Ge , Xiaoting Zhao , Lucia Yu , Saurabh Paul , Diane Hu , Chu-Cheng Hsieh , Yongfeng Zhang

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

Item recommendation tasks are a widely studied topic. Recent developments in deep learning and spectral methods paved a path towards efficient graph embedding techniques. But little research has been done on applying these graph embedding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Vishwas Sathish , Tanya Mehrotra , Simran Dhinwa , Bhaskarjyoti Das

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

The Recommender system is a vital information service on today's Internet. Recently, graph neural networks have emerged as the leading approach for recommender systems. We try to review recent literature on graph neural network-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haojun Zhu , Vikram Kapoor , Priya Sharma

For applications where multiple stakeholders provide recommendations, a fair consensus ranking must not only ensure that the preferences of rankers are well represented, but must also mitigate disadvantages among socio-demographic groups in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Hilson Shrestha , Kathleen Cachel , Mallak Alkhathlan , Elke Rundensteiner , Lane Harrison

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

Recent studies have highlighted fairness issues in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where they produce discriminatory predictions against specific protected groups categorized by sensitive attributes such as race and age. While various efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Yatao Bian , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

Recommender system is one of the most important information services on today's Internet. Recently, graph neural networks have become the new state-of-the-art approach to recommender systems. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Nian Li , Yinfeng Li , Yingrong Qin , Jinghua Piao , Yuhan Quan , Jianxin Chang , Depeng Jin , Xiangnan He , Yong Li

Graph collaborative filtering (GCF) is a popular technique for capturing high-order collaborative signals in recommendation systems. However, GCF's bipartite adjacency matrix, which defines the neighbors being aggregated based on user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Ziwei Fan , Ke Xu , Zhang Dong , Hao Peng , Jiawei Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Package-to-group recommender systems recommend a set of unified items to a group of people. Different from conventional settings, it is not easy to measure the utility of group recommendations because it involves more than one user. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ryoma Sato

Recent recommender system advancements have focused on developing sequence-based and graph-based approaches. Both approaches proved useful in modeling intricate relationships within behavioral data, leading to promising outcomes in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Vladimir Baikalov , Evgeny Frolov

Recommender Systems (RSs) are used to provide users with personalized item recommendations and help them overcome the problem of information overload. Currently, recommendation methods based on deep learning are gaining ground over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nikzad Chizari , Niloufar Shoeibi , María N. Moreno-García

Link prediction is a popular research topic in network analysis. In the last few years, new techniques based on graph embedding have emerged as a powerful alternative to heuristics. In this article, we study the problem of systematic biases…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Aakash Sinha , Rémy Cazabet , Rémi Vaudaine

Federated learning offers a privacy-preserving framework for recommendation systems by enabling local data processing; however, data localization introduces substantial obstacles. Traditional federated recommendation approaches treat each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xudong Wang , Qingbo Hao , Yingyuan Xiao

Fair representation learning provides an effective way of enforcing fairness constraints without compromising utility for downstream users. A desirable family of such fairness constraints, each requiring similar treatment for similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Anian Ruoss , Mislav Balunović , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven their effectiveness for recommender systems. Existing studies have applied GNNs to capture collaborative relations in the data. However, in real-world scenarios, the relations in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaohan Li , Zhiwei Liu , Stephen Guo , Zheng Liu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu , Kannan Achan

Recent studies have highlighted significant fairness issues in Graph Transformer (GT) models, particularly against subgroups defined by sensitive features. Additionally, GTs are computationally intensive and memory-demanding, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Renqiang Luo , Huafei Huang , Ivan Lee , Chengpei Xu , Jianzhong Qi , Feng Xia