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We explore the fairness issue that arises in recommender systems. Biased data due to inherent stereotypes of particular groups (e.g., male students' average rating on mathematics is often higher than that on humanities, and vice versa for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Jaewoong Cho , Moonseok Choi , Changho Suh

One of the many fairness definitions pursued in recent recommender system research targets mitigating demographic information encoded in model representations. Models optimized for this definition are typically evaluated on how well…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bjørnar Vassøy , Benjamin Kille , Helge Langseth

Recommender systems are used in variety of domains affecting people's lives. This has raised concerns about possible biases and discrimination that such systems might exacerbate. There are two primary kinds of biases inherent in recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Golnoosh Farnadi , Pigi Kouki , Spencer K. Thompson , Sriram Srinivasan , Lise Getoor

Fairness in AI-driven decision-making systems has become a critical concern, especially when these systems directly affect human lives. This paper explores the public's comprehension of fairness in healthcare recommendations. We conducted a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Veronica Kecki , Alan Said

Machine learning algorithms are being used in high-stakes decisions, including those in criminal justice, healthcare, credit, and employment. The research community has responded with two largely independent research fields:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gideon Popoola , John Sheppard

Fairness is a widely discussed topic in recommender systems, but its practical implementation faces challenges in defining sensitive features while maintaining recommendation accuracy. We propose feature fairness as the foundation to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Hengchang Hu , Yiming Cao , Zhankui He , Samson Tan , Min-Yen Kan

Recommender systems have become a pervasive part of our daily online experience, and are one of the most widely used applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Therefore, regulations and requirements for trustworthy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Dominik Kowald

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

Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) exemplify how to minimally modify a feature vector to achieve a different prediction for an instance. CFEs can enhance informational fairness and trustworthiness, and provide suggestions for users who…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yongjie Wang , Hangwei Qian , Yongjie Liu , Wei Guo , Chunyan Miao

Modelling mix-and-match relationships among fashion items has become increasingly demanding yet challenging for modern E-commerce recommender systems. When performing clothes matching, most existing approaches leverage the latent visual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Zi Huang

Recommender systems are being employed across an increasingly diverse set of domains that can potentially make a significant social and individual impact. For this reason, considering fairness is a critical step in the design and evaluation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Charles Dickens , Rishika Singh , Lise Getoor

Transparency is an essential requirement of machine learning based decision making systems that are deployed in real world. Often, transparency of a given system is achieved by providing explanations of the behavior and predictions of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

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

As recommendation is essentially a comparative (or ranking) process, a good explanation should illustrate to users why an item is believed to be better than another, i.e., comparative explanations about the recommended items. Ideally, after…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aobo Yang , Nan Wang , Renqin Cai , Hongbo Deng , Hongning Wang

As a key application of artificial intelligence, recommender systems are among the most pervasive computer aided systems to help users find potential items of interests. Recently, researchers paid considerable attention to fairness issues…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Le Wu , Lei Chen , Pengyang Shao , Richang Hong , Xiting Wang , Meng Wang

Artificial intelligence supports healthcare professionals with predictive modeling, greatly transforming clinical decision-making. This study addresses the crucial need for fairness and explainability in AI applications within healthcare to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Chia-Hsuan Chang , Xiaoyang Wang , Christopher C. Yang

Recent work in recommender systems mainly focuses on fairness in recommendations as an important aspect of measuring recommendations quality. A fairness-aware recommender system aims to treat different user groups similarly. Relevant work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Mahdi Dehghan , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Recent advances in Foundation Models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) have propelled them to the forefront of Recommender Systems (RS). Despite their utility, there is a growing concern that LLMs might inadvertently perpetuate societal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Wenyue Hua , Yingqiang Ge , Shuyuan Xu , Jianchao Ji , Yongfeng Zhang

This paper presents a philosophical and experimental study of fairness interventions in AI classification, centered on the explainability of corrective methods. We argue that ensuring fairness requires not only satisfying a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Souverain , Johnathan Nguyen , Nicolas Meric , Paul Égré

Algorithmic fairness has aroused considerable interests in data mining and machine learning communities recently. So far the existing research has been mostly focusing on the development of quantitative metrics to measure algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Weishen Pan , Sen Cui , Jiang Bian , Changshui Zhang , Fei Wang