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Ensuring fair outcomes for multiple stakeholders in recommender systems has been studied mostly in terms of algorithmic interventions: building new models with better fairness properties, or using reranking to improve outcomes from an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Elizabeth McKinnie , Anas Buhayh , Clement Canel , Robin Burke

Recommender systems can strongly influence which information we see online, e.g., on social media, and thus impact our beliefs, decisions, and actions. At the same time, these systems can create substantial business value for different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yashar Deldjoo , Dietmar Jannach , Alejandro Bellogin , Alessandro Difonzo , Dario Zanzonelli

Recent works in recommendation systems have focused on diversity in recommendations as an important aspect of recommendation quality. In this work we argue that the post-processing algorithms aimed at only improving diversity among…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Jurek Leonhardt , Avishek Anand , Megha Khosla

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

Many interesting problems in the Internet industry can be framed as a two-sided marketplace problem. Examples include search applications and recommender systems showing people, jobs, movies, products, restaurants, etc. Incorporating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Kinjal Basu , Cyrus DiCiccio , Heloise Logan , Noureddine El Karoui

Recommender systems are used in variety of domains affecting people's lives. This has raised concerns about possible biases and discrimination that such systems might exacerbate. There are two primary kinds of biases inherent in recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Golnoosh Farnadi , Pigi Kouki , Spencer K. Thompson , Sriram Srinivasan , Lise Getoor

Collaborative filtering based recommendation learns users' preferences from all users' historical behavior data, and has been popular to facilitate decision making. R Recently, the fairness issue of recommendation has become more and more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Lei Chen , Le Wu , Kun Zhang , Richang Hong , Defu Lian , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Meng Wang

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

Fairness is a crucial property in recommender systems. Although some online services have adopted fairness aware systems recently, many other services have not adopted them yet. In this work, we propose methods to enable the users to build…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Ryoma Sato

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 are known to exhibit fairness issues, particularly on the product side, where products and their associated suppliers receive unequal exposure in recommended results. While this problem has been widely studied in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Huy-Son Nguyen , Yuanna Liu , Masoud Mansoury , Mohammad Alian Nejadi , Alan Hanjalic , Maarten de Rijke

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

Nowadays, most online services are hosted on multi-stakeholder marketplaces, where consumers and producers may have different objectives. Conventional recommendation systems, however, mainly focus on maximizing consumers' satisfaction by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Haolun Wu , Chen Ma , Bhaskar Mitra , Fernando Diaz , Xue Liu

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

As recommender systems have become more widespread and moved into areas with greater social impact, such as employment and housing, researchers have begun to seek ways to ensure fairness in the results that such systems produce. This work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Nasim Sonboli , Farzad Eskandanian , Robin Burke , Weiwen Liu , Bamshad Mobasher

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

Major online platforms today can be thought of as two-sided markets with producers and customers of goods and services. There have been concerns that over-emphasis on customer satisfaction by the platforms may affect the well-being of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Gourab K Patro , Abhijnan Chakraborty , Niloy Ganguly , Krishna P. Gummadi

The evaluation of recommender system fairness has become increasingly important, especially with recent legislation that emphasises the development of fair and responsible artificial intelligence. This has led to the emergence of various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Theresia Veronika Rampisela

There is growing research interest in recommendation as a multi-stakeholder problem, one where the interests of multiple parties should be taken into account. This category subsumes some existing well-established areas of recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Himan Abdollahpouri , Robin Burke

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