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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

Rankings of people and items has been highly used in selection-making, match-making, and recommendation algorithms that have been deployed on ranging of platforms from employment websites to searching tools. The ranking position of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

With the widespread use of AI systems and applications in our everyday lives, it is important to take fairness issues into consideration while designing and engineering these types of systems. Such systems can be used in many sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ninareh Mehrabi , Fred Morstatter , Nripsuta Saxena , Kristina Lerman , Aram Galstyan

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

Algorithmic fairness in recommender systems requires close attention to the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders that may have competing interests. Previous work in this area has often been limited by fixed, single-objective definitions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Amanda Aird , Elena Štefancová , Cassidy All , Amy Voida , Martin Homola , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

Several recent works have highlighted how search and recommender systems exhibit bias along different dimensions. Counteracting this bias and bringing a certain amount of fairness in search is crucial to not only creating a more balanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Sahil Verma , Ruoyuan Gao , Chirag Shah

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

Recent works in recommendation systems have focused on diversity in recommendations as an important aspect of recommendation quality. In this work we argue that the post-processing algorithms aimed at only improving diversity among…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Jurek Leonhardt , Avishek Anand , Megha Khosla

Ranking, recommendation, and retrieval systems are widely used in online platforms and other societal systems, including e-commerce, media-streaming, admissions, gig platforms, and hiring. In the recent past, a large "fair ranking" research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Gourab K Patro , Lorenzo Porcaro , Laura Mitchell , Qiuyue Zhang , Meike Zehlike , Nikhil Garg

Research on fairness in machine learning has been recently extended to recommender systems. One of the factors that may impact fairness is bias disparity, the degree to which a group's preferences on various item categories fail to be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Masoud Mansoury , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Algorithmic fairness in the context of personalized recommendation presents significantly different challenges to those commonly encountered in classification tasks. Researchers studying classification have generally considered fairness to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Amanda Aird , Paresha Farastu , Joshua Sun , Elena Štefancová , Cassidy All , Amy Voida , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

Fairness is an emerging and challenging topic in recommender systems. In recent years, various ways of evaluating and therefore improving fairness have emerged. In this study, we examine existing evaluation measures of fairness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Theresia Veronika Rampisela , Maria Maistro , Tuukka Ruotsalo , Christina Lioma

In a world of daily emerging scientific inquisition and discovery, the prolific launch of machine learning across industries comes to little surprise for those familiar with the potential of ML. Neither so should the congruent expansion of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Brianna Richardson , Juan E. Gilbert

Computers are increasingly used to make decisions that have significant impact in people's lives. Often, these predictions can affect different population subgroups disproportionately. As a result, the issue of fairness has received much…

Existing research on fairness-aware recommendation has mainly focused on the quantification of fairness and the development of fair recommendation models, neither of which studies a more substantial problem--identifying the underlying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yingqiang Ge , Juntao Tan , Yan Zhu , Yinglong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Shuchang Liu , Zuohui Fu , Shijie Geng , Zelong Li , Yongfeng Zhang

Fairness is a critical system-level objective in recommender systems that has been the subject of extensive recent research. It is especially important in multi-sided recommendation platforms where it may be crucial to optimize utilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Masoud Mansoury

Fairness in machine learning has been studied by many researchers. In particular, fairness in recommender systems has been investigated to ensure the recommendations meet certain criteria with respect to certain sensitive features such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Himan Abdollahpouri , Robin Burke , Masoud Mansoury

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

Recently, there has been a rising awareness that when machine learning (ML) algorithms are used to automate choices, they may treat/affect individuals unfairly, with legal, ethical, or economic consequences. Recommender systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Hossein A. Rahmani , Yashar Deldjoo

Building fair recommender systems is a challenging and crucial area of study due to its immense impact on society. We extended the definitions of two commonly accepted notions of fairness to recommender systems, namely equality of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-12 Preetam Nandy , Cyrus Diciccio , Divya Venugopalan , Heloise Logan , Kinjal Basu , Noureddine El Karoui