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Traditionally, recommender systems operate by returning a user a set of items, ranked in order of estimated relevance to that user. In recent years, methods relying on stochastic ordering have been developed to create "fairer" rankings that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Amanda Bower , Kristian Lum , Tomo Lazovich , Kyra Yee , Luca Belli

In markets where algorithmic data processing is increasingly prevalent, recommendation algorithms can substantially affect trade and welfare. We consider a setting in which an algorithm recommends a product based on its value to the buyer…

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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

Modern e-commerce platforms offer vast product selections, making it difficult for customers to find items that they like and that are relevant to their current session intent. This is why it is key for e-commerce platforms to have near…

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

Individuals often navigate several options with incomplete knowledge of their own preferences. Information provisioning tools such as public rankings and personalized recommendations have become central to helping individuals make choices,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-05 Omar Besbes , Yash Kanoria , Akshit Kumar

With the increasing amount of information on the Internet, recommender systems are becoming increasingly crucial in supporting people to find and explore relevant content. This is also true in the online recruitment space, with websites…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yuzhou Peng

Ranking algorithms are being widely employed in various online hiring platforms including LinkedIn, TaskRabbit, and Fiverr. Prior research has demonstrated that ranking algorithms employed by these platforms are prone to a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Tom Sühr , Sophie Hilgard , Himabindu Lakkaraju

A common way of doing algorithm selection is to train a machine learning model and predict the best algorithm from a portfolio to solve a particular problem. While this method has been highly successful, choosing only a single algorithm has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Lars Kotthoff

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

People are rated and ranked, towards algorithmic decision making in an increasing number of applications, typically based on machine learning. Research on how to incorporate fairness into such tasks has prevalently pursued the paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Preethi Lahoti , Krishna P. Gummadi , Gerhard Weikum

We study allocation problems without monetary transfers where agents have correlated types, i.e., hold private information about one another. Such peer information is relevant in various settings, including science funding, allocation of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-03-21 Axel Niemeyer , Justus Preusser

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Internet greatly increases the necessity of effective recommender systems for filtering the abundant information. Extensive research for recommender systems is conducted by a broad range of communities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-04 Linyuan Lü , Matus Medo , Chi Ho Yeung , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Zi-Ke Zhang , Tao Zhou

In the current landscape of ever-increasing levels of digitalization, we are facing major challenges pertaining to scalability. Recommender systems have become irreplaceable both for helping users navigate the increasing amounts of data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Bjørnar Vassøy , Helge Langseth

Many of today's online services provide personalized recommendations to their users. Such recommendations are typically designed to serve certain user needs, e.g., to quickly find relevant content in situations of information overload.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Alvise De Biasio , Nicolò Navarin , Dietmar Jannach

Learning to rank is an effective recommendation approach since its introduction around 2010. Famous algorithms such as Bayesian Personalized Ranking and Collaborative Less is More Filtering have left deep impact in both academia and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Hao Wang

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

By the growing trend of online shopping and e-commerce websites, recommendation systems have gained more importance in recent years in order to increase the sales ratios of companies. Different algorithms on recommendation systems are used…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Gürkan Alpaslan

Candidate retrieval is a fundamental issue in recommendation system. Given user's recommendation request, relevant candidates need to be retrieved in realtime for subsequent ranking operations. Considering that the retrieval operation is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Zheng Liu , Yu Xing , Jianxun Lian , Defu Lian , Ziyao Li , Xing Xie

Data and algorithm sharing is an imperative part of data and AI-driven economies. The efficient sharing of data and algorithms relies on the active interplay between users, data providers, and algorithm providers. Although recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Peter Müllner , Stefan Schmerda , Dieter Theiler , Stefanie Lindstaedt , Dominik Kowald