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Recommender systems, which offer personalized suggestions to users, power many of today's social media, e-commerce and entertainment. However, these systems have been known to intellectually isolate users from a variety of perspectives, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vivek Anand , Matthew Yang , Zhanzhan Zhao

We study a model of user decision-making in the context of recommender systems via numerical simulation. Our model provides an explanation for the findings of Nguyen, et. al (2014), where, in environments where recommender systems are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Guy Aridor , Duarte Goncalves , Shan Sikdar

Interactive Recommendation (IR) has gained significant attention recently for its capability to quickly capture dynamic interest and optimize both short and long term objectives. IR agents are typically implemented through Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jingyu Li , Zhiyong Feng , Dongxiao He , Hongqi Chen , Qinghang Gao , Guoli Wu

In sequential recommendation (SR), system exposure refers to items that are exposed to the user. Typically, only a few of the exposed items would be interacted with by the user. Although SR has achieved great success in predicting future…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ziqi Zhao , Zhaochun Ren , Jiyuan Yang , Zuming Yan , Zihan Wang , Liu Yang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Xin Xin

Unfairness is a well-known challenge in Recommender Systems (RSs), often resulting in biased outcomes that disadvantage users or items based on attributes such as gender, race, age, or popularity. Although some approaches have started to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yongsen Zheng , Zongxuan Xie , Guohua Wang , Ziyao Liu , Liang Lin , Kwok-Yan Lam

Recommender Systems (RS) aim to provide personalized suggestions of items for users against consumer over-choice. Although extensive research has been conducted to address different aspects and challenges of RS, there still exists a gap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Peiyan Zhang , Sunghun Kim

In the realm of personalized recommendation systems, the increasing concern is the amplification of belief imbalance and user biases, a phenomenon primarily attributed to the filter bubble. Addressing this critical issue, we introduce an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Mengyan Wang , Yuxuan Hu , Zihan Yuan , Chenting Jiang , Weihua Li , Shiqing Wu , Quan Bai

In recommendation literature, explainability and fairness are becoming two prominent perspectives to consider. However, prior works have mostly addressed them separately, for instance by explaining to consumers why a certain item was…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Ludovico Boratto , Francesco Fabbri , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras , Giacomo Medda

In the era of information overload, recommender systems (RSs) have become an indispensable part of online service platforms. Traditional RSs estimate user interests and predict their future behaviors by utilizing correlations in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yaochen Zhu , Jing Ma , Jundong Li

Recommender systems (RSs) often suffer from the feedback loop phenomenon, e.g., RSs are trained on data biased by their recommendations. This leads to the filter bubble effect that reinforces homogeneous content and reduces user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yunjia Xi , Muyan Weng , Wen Chen , Chao Yi , Dian Chen , Gaoyang Guo , Mao Zhang , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang , Qingwen Liu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Imagine a food recommender system -- how would we check if it is \emph{causing} and fostering unhealthy eating habits or merely reflecting users' interests? How much of a user's experience over time with a recommender is caused by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Sirui Yao , Yoni Halpern , Nithum Thain , Xuezhi Wang , Kang Lee , Flavien Prost , Ed H. Chi , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel

An increasing reliance on recommender systems has led to concerns about the creation of filter bubbles on social media, especially on short video platforms like TikTok. However, their formation is still not entirely understood due to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nicholas Sukiennik , Haoyu Wang , Zailin Zeng , Chen Gao , Yong Li

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

Nowadays, recommendation systems have become crucial to online platforms, shaping user exposure by accurate preference modeling. However, such an exposure strategy can also reinforce users' existing preferences, leading to a notorious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Difu Feng , Qianqian Xu , Zitai Wang , Cong Hua , Zhiyong Yang , Qingming Huang

Interactive Recommender Systems (IRSs) have attracted a lot of attention, due to their ability to model interactive processes between users and recommender systems. Numerous approaches have adopted Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Hojoon Lee , Dongyoon Hwang , Kyushik Min , Jaegul Choo

Interactive Recommender Systems (IRS) have been increasingly used in various domains, including personalized article recommendation, social media, and online advertising. However, IRS faces significant challenges in providing accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jin Zhang , Defu Lian , Hong Xie , Yawen Li , Enhong Chen

Filter bubbles have been studied extensively within the context of online content platforms due to their potential to cause undesirable outcomes such as user dissatisfaction or polarization. With the rise of short-video platforms, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Nicholas Sukiennik , Chen Gao , Nian Li

Recommender systems are widely applied in digital platforms such as news websites to personalize services based on user preferences. In news websites most of users are anonymous and the only available data is sequences of items in anonymous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Alireza Gharahighehi , Celine Vens

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are designed to suggest the target item that the user is likely to prefer through multi-turn conversations. Recent studies stress that capturing sentiments in user conversations improves…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Heejin Kook , Junyoung Kim , Seongmin Park , Jongwuk Lee

With the aid of large language models, current conversational recommender system (CRS) has gaining strong abilities to persuade users to accept recommended items. While these CRSs are highly persuasive, they can mislead users by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Peixin Qin , Chen Huang , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua