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We investigate the problem of choice overload - the difficulty of making a decision when faced with many options - when displaying related-article recommendations in digital libraries. So far, research regarding to how many items should be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Felix Beierle , Akiko Aizawa , Joeran Beel

Recommender systems leverage both content and user interactions to generate recommendations that fit users' preferences. The recent surge of interest in deep learning presents new opportunities for exploiting these two sources of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Jeroen B. P. Vuurens , Martha Larson , Arjen P. de Vries

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

Many recommender systems suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular items are being recommended frequently while less popular, niche products, are recommended rarely if not at all. However, those ignored products are exactly the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Himan Abdollahpouri , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

The existing collaborative recommendation models that use multi-modal information emphasize the representation of users' preferences but easily ignore the representation of users' dislikes. Nevertheless, modelling users' dislikes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zheng Hu , Shi-Min Cai , Jun Wang , Tao Zhou

Existing work has revealed that large-scale offline evaluation of recommender systems for user-item interactions is prone to bias caused by the deployed system itself, as a form of closed loop feedback. Many adopt the \textit{propensity}…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haowen Wang

The growth of Internet commerce has stimulated the use of collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms as recommender systems. Such systems leverage knowledge about the known preferences of multiple users to recommend items of interest to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-01-18 David M. Pennock , Eric J. Horvitz , Steve Lawrence , C. Lee Giles

Our consumption of online information is mediated by filtering, ranking, and recommendation algorithms that introduce unintentional biases as they attempt to deliver relevant and engaging content. It has been suggested that our reliance on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Dimitar Nikolov , Mounia Lalmas , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

Popularity bias is a pervasive problem in recommender systems, where recommendations disproportionately favor popular items. This not only results in "rich-get-richer" dynamics and a homogenization of visible content, but can also lead to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mona Schirmer , Anton Thielmann , Pola Schwöbel , Thomas Martynec , Giuseppe Di Benedetto , Ben London , Yannik Stein

Many projects (both practical and academic) have designed algorithms to match users to content they will enjoy under the assumption that user's preferences and opinions do not change with the content they see. Evidence suggests that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Sarah Dean , Jamie Morgenstern

Recommender systems are emerging technologies that nowadays can be found in many applications such as Amazon, Netflix, and so on. These systems help users to find relevant information, recommendations, and their preferred items. Slightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Nima Mirbakhsh , Charles X. Ling

Recommender systems have been gaining increasing research attention over the years. Most existing recommendation methods focus on capturing users' personalized preferences through historical user-item interactions, which may potentially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jiazheng Jing , Yinan Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiqi Shen

Recommender systems often struggle with over-specialization, which severely limits users' exposure to diverse content and creates filter bubbles that reduce serendipitous discovery. To address this fundamental limitation, this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Edoardo Bianchi

Personalized recommendation systems shape much of user choice online, yet their targeted nature makes separating out the value of recommendation and the underlying goods challenging. We build a discrete choice model that embeds…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-30 Kevin Zielnicki , Guy Aridor , Aurélien Bibaut , Allen Tran , Winston Chou , Nathan Kallus

Caching has been successfully applied in wired networks, in the context of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), and is quickly gaining ground for wireless systems. Storing popular content at the edge of the network (e.g. at small cells) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Theodoros Giannakas , Pavlos Sermpezis , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos

Collaborative filtering is a useful technique for exploiting the preference patterns of a group of users to predict the utility of items for the active user. In general, the performance of collaborative filtering depends on the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Rong Jin , Luo Si

Typically, recommender systems from any domain, be it movies, music, restaurants, etc., are organized in a centralized fashion. The service provider holds all the data, biases in the recommender algorithms are not transparent to the user,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Felix Beierle , Tobias Eichinger

Personalized recommender systems are confronting great challenges of accuracy, diversification and novelty, especially when the data set is sparse and lacks accessorial information, such as user profiles, item attributes and explicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-10-07 Zi-Ke Zhang , Tao Zhou , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Recommender systems are crucial to alleviate the information overload problem in online worlds. Most of the modern recommender systems capture users' preference towards items via their interactions based on collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Dawei Yin , Jianping Wang , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

Collaborative filtering is the simplest but oldest machine learning algorithm in the field of recommender systems. In spite of its long history, it remains a discussion topic in research venues. Usually people use users/items whose…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Hao Wang