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Deep learning-based recommender systems (DRSs) are increasingly and widely deployed in the industry, which brings significant convenience to people's daily life in different ways. However, recommender systems are also shown to suffer from…

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Interactive recommender systems (IRS) are increasingly optimized with Reinforcement Learning (RL) to capture the sequential nature of user-system dynamics. However, existing fairness-aware methods often suffer from a fundamental oversight:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yun Lu , Xiaoyu Shi , Hong Xie , Xiangyu Zhao , Mingsheng Shang

Machine learning systems are often deployed for making critical decisions like credit lending, hiring, etc. While making decisions, such systems often encode the user's demographic information (like gender, age) in their intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Snigdha Chaturvedi

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

Driven by the need to capture users' evolving interests and optimize their long-term experiences, more and more recommender systems have started to model recommendation as a Markov decision process and employ reinforcement learning to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Dell Zhang , Jun Wang

New-items play a crucial role in recommender systems (RSs) for delivering fresh and engaging user experiences. However, traditional methods struggle to effectively recommend new-items due to their short exposure time and limited interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Huizhong Guo , Zhu Sun , Dongxia Wang , Tianjun Wei , Jinfeng Li , Jie Zhang

Modern recommender systems must adapt to dynamic, need-specific objectives for diverse recommendation scenarios, yet most traditional recommenders are optimized for a single static target and struggle to reconfigure behavior on demand.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yijun Pan , Weikang Qiu , Qiyao Ma , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Rex Ying

News recommendation aims to help online news platform users find their preferred news articles. Existing news recommendation methods usually learn models from historical user behaviors on news. However, these behaviors are usually biased on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Peijie Sun , Le Wu , Xiting Wang , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

There has been growing attention on fairness considerations recently, especially in the context of intelligent decision making systems. Explainable recommendation systems, in particular, may suffer from both explanation bias and performance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zuohui Fu , Yikun Xian , Ruoyuan Gao , Jieyu Zhao , Qiaoying Huang , Yingqiang Ge , Shuyuan Xu , Shijie Geng , Chirag Shah , Yongfeng Zhang , Gerard de Melo

Recommendation fairness has attracted great attention recently. In real-world systems, users usually have multiple sensitive attributes (e.g. age, gender, and occupation), and users may not want their recommendation results influenced by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yiqing Wu , Ruobing Xie , Yongchun Zhu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Xiang Ao , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

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

Fairness of recommender systems (RS) has attracted increasing attention recently. Based on the involved stakeholders, the fairness of RS can be divided into user fairness, item fairness, and two-sided fairness which considers both user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yifan Wang , Peijie Sun , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Peng Jiang , Shaoping Ma

Fairness-aware learning aims at satisfying various fairness constraints in addition to the usual performance criteria via data-driven machine learning techniques. Most of the research in fairness-aware learning employs the setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Pratik Gajane , Akrati Saxena , Maryam Tavakol , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

As Recommender Systems (RS) influence more and more people in their daily life, the issue of fairness in recommendation is becoming more and more important. Most of the prior approaches to fairness-aware recommendation have been situated in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yingqiang Ge , Shuchang Liu , Ruoyuan Gao , Yikun Xian , Yunqi Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Changhua Pei , Fei Sun , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou , Yongfeng Zhang

Deep reinforcement learning enables an agent to capture user's interest through interactions with the environment dynamically. It has attracted great interest in the recommendation research. Deep reinforcement learning uses a reward…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Xianzhi Wang , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

As one of the most pervasive applications of machine learning, recommender systems are playing an important role on assisting human decision making. The satisfaction of users and the interests of platforms are closely related to the quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yunqi Li , Hanxiong Chen , Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Juntao Tan , Shuchang Liu , Yongfeng Zhang

Algorithmic fairness for artificial intelligence has become increasingly relevant as these systems become more pervasive in society. One realm of AI, recommender systems, presents unique challenges for fairness due to trade offs between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jessie Smith , Nasim Sonboli , Casey Fiesler , 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

Although recommenders can ship items to users automatically based on the users' preferences, they often cause unfairness to groups or individuals. For instance, when users can be divided into two groups according to a sensitive social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Zhenhao Jiang , Jicong Fan

Interactive recommender system (IRS) has drawn huge attention because of its flexible recommendation strategy and the consideration of optimal long-term user experiences. To deal with the dynamic user preference and optimize accumulative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Sijin Zhou , Xinyi Dai , Haokun Chen , Weinan Zhang , Kan Ren , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Yong Yu
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