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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

Fairness in recommendation has attracted increasing attention due to bias and discrimination possibly caused by traditional recommenders. In Interactive Recommender Systems (IRS), user preferences and the system's fairness status are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Weiwen Liu , Feng Liu , Ruiming Tang , Ben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Pheng Ann Heng

This paper aims to investigate and achieve seller-side fairness within online marketplaces, where many sellers and their items are not sufficiently exposed to customers in an e-commerce platform. This phenomenon raises concerns regarding…

Rankings on online platforms help their end-users find the relevant information -- people, news, media, and products -- quickly. Fair ranking tasks, which ask to rank a set of items to maximize utility subject to satisfying group-fairness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Sruthi Gorantla , Anay Mehrotra , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

Recommender systems are facing scrutiny because of their growing impact on the opportunities we have access to. Current audits for fairness are limited to coarse-grained parity assessments at the level of sensitive groups. We propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Virginie Do , Sam Corbett-Davies , Jamal Atif , Nicolas Usunier

When devising recommendation services, it is important to account for the interests of all content providers, encompassing not only newcomers but also minority demographic groups. In various instances, certain provider groups find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Ludovico Boratto , Giulia Cerniglia , Mirko Marras , Alessandra Perniciano , Barbara Pes

Prior research on exposure fairness in the context of recommender systems has focused mostly on disparities in the exposure of individual or groups of items to individual users of the system. The problem of how individual or groups of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Haolun Wu , Bhaskar Mitra , Chen Ma , Fernando Diaz , Xue Liu

Many companies rely on advertising platforms such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram to recruit a large and diverse applicant pool for job openings. Prior works have shown that equitable bidding may not result in equitable outcomes due to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Inbal Livni Navon , Charlotte Peale , Omer Reingold , Judy Hanwen Shen

There has been a flurry of research in recent years on notions of fairness in ranking and recommender systems, particularly on how to evaluate if a recommender allocates exposure equally across groups of relevant items (also known as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Flavien Prost , Ben Packer , Jilin Chen , Li Wei , Pierre Kremp , Nicholas Blumm , Susan Wang , Tulsee Doshi , Tonia Osadebe , Lukasz Heldt , Ed H. Chi , Alex Beutel

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

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

Ranking systems are ubiquitous in modern Internet services, including online marketplaces, social media, and search engines. Traditionally, ranking systems only focus on how to get better relevance estimation. When relevance estimation is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Tao Yang , Zhichao Xu , Zhenduo Wang , Anh Tran , Qingyao Ai

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

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

Today, recommender systems have played an increasingly important role in shaping our experiences of digital environments and social interactions. However, as recommender systems become ubiquitous in our society, recent years have also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Michinari Momma , Yi Sun

A two-sided market consists of two sets of agents, each of whom have preferences over the other (Airbnb, Upwork, Lyft, Uber, etc.). We propose and analyze a repeated matching problem, where some set of matches occur on each time step, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Sreenivas Gollapudi , Kostas Kollias , Benjamin Plaut

The lack of bias management in Recommender Systems leads to minority groups receiving unfair recommendations. Moreover, the trade-off between equity and precision makes it difficult to obtain recommendations that meet both criteria. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jesús Bobadilla , Raúl Lara-Cabrera , Ángel González-Prieto , Fernando Ortega

Two-sided marketplaces are standard business models of many online platforms (e.g., Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn), wherein the platforms have consumers, buyers or content viewers on one side and producers, sellers or content-creators on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Preetam Nandy , Divya Venugopalan , Chun Lo , Shaunak Chatterjee

We increasingly depend on a variety of data-driven algorithmic systems to assist us in many aspects of life. Search engines and recommender systems amongst others are used as sources of information and to help us in making all sort of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Evaggelia Pitoura , Kostas Stefanidis , Georgia Koutrika

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