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An emerging definition of fairness in machine learning requires that models are oblivious to demographic user information, e.g., a user's gender or age should not influence the model. Personalized recommender systems are particularly prone…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Bjørnar Vassøy , Helge Langseth , Benjamin Kille

Equity in real-world sequential decision problems can be enforced using fairness-aware methods. Therefore, we require algorithms that can make suitable and transparent trade-offs between performance and the desired fairness notions. As the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Alexandra Cimpean , Nicole Orzan , Catholijn Jonker , Pieter Libin , Ann Nowé

Recommender Systems (RSs) are operated locally by different organizations in many realistic scenarios. If various organizations can fully share their data and perform computation in a centralized manner, they may significantly improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Enmao Diao , Vahid Tarokh , Jie Ding

People are rated and ranked, towards algorithmic decision making in an increasing number of applications, typically based on machine learning. Research on how to incorporate fairness into such tasks has prevalently pursued the paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Preethi Lahoti , Krishna P. Gummadi , Gerhard Weikum

Beyond user-item modeling, item-to-item relationships are increasingly used to enhance recommendation. However, common methods largely rely on co-occurrence, making them prone to item popularity bias and user attributes, which degrades…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jingmao Zhang , Zhiting Zhao , Yunqi Lin , Jianghong Ma , Tianjun Wei , Haijun Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang

Cross-domain Recommendation systems leverage multi-domain user interactions to improve performance, especially in sparse data or new user scenarios. However, CDR faces challenges such as effectively capturing user preferences and avoiding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junxiong Tong , Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Qiushi Pan , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

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

Advanced recommender systems usually involve multiple domains (such as scenarios or categories) for various marketing strategies, and users interact with them to satisfy diverse demands. The goal of multi-domain recommendation (MDR) is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zixuan Xu , Penghui Wei , Shaoguo Liu , Weimin Zhang , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

With the widespread adoption of information systems, recommender systems are widely used for better user experience. Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in implementing recommender systems. Yet, collaborative filtering methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sapumal Ahangama , Danny Chiang-Choon Poo

Cross-domain Recommendation (CR) is the task that tends to improve the recommendations in the sparse target domain by leveraging the information from other rich domains. Existing methods of cross-domain recommendation mainly focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hao Liu , Lei Guo , Lei Zhu , Yongqiang Jiang , Min Gao , Hongzhi Yin

Recommendation systems play a crucial role in our daily lives by impacting user experience across various domains, including e-commerce, job advertisements, entertainment, etc. Given the vital role of such systems in our lives,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Tahsin Alamgir Kheya , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Cold-start recommendation is one of the major challenges faced by recommender systems (RS). Herein, we focus on the user cold-start problem. Recently, methods utilizing side information or meta-learning have been used to model cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiangyu Zhang , Zongqiang Kuang , Zehao Zhang , Fan Huang , Xianfeng Tan

Scoring systems, as a type of predictive model, have significant advantages in interpretability and transparency and facilitate quick decision-making. As such, scoring systems have been extensively used in a wide variety of industries such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yi Yang , Ying Wu , Mei Li , Xiangyu Chang , Yong Tan

Addressing fairness in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in medical AI, is crucial for ensuring equitable healthcare outcomes. Recent efforts to enhance fairness have introduced new methodologies and datasets in medical AI.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Yu Tian , Congcong Wen , Min Shi , Muhammad Muneeb Afzal , Hao Huang , Muhammad Osama Khan , Yan Luo , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

The issue of fairness in recommendation is becoming increasingly essential as Recommender Systems touch and influence more and more people in their daily lives. In fairness-aware recommendation, most of the existing algorithmic approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yingqiang Ge , Xiaoting Zhao , Lucia Yu , Saurabh Paul , Diane Hu , Chu-Cheng Hsieh , Yongfeng Zhang

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been attracting increasing attention of researchers for its ability to alleviate the data sparsity problem in recommender systems. However, the existing single-target or dual-target CDR methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xiaoyun Zhao , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

The rapid proliferation of new users and items on the social web has aggravated the gray-sheep user/long-tail item challenge in recommender systems. Historically, cross-domain co-clustering methods have successfully leveraged shared users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Adit Krishnan , Mahashweta Das , Mangesh Bendre , Hao Yang , Hari Sundaram

Bias is a common problem inherent in recommender systems, which is entangled with users' preferences and poses a great challenge to unbiased learning. For debiasing tasks, the doubly robust (DR) method and its variants show superior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Haoxuan Li , Yan Lyu , Chunyuan Zheng , Peng Wu

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to en-hance recommendation quality by transferring knowledge across domains, offering effective solutions to data sparsity and cold-start issues. However, existing methods face three major…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xingzi Wang , Qingtian Bian , Hui Fang

Fairness-aware learning aims at satisfying various fairness constraints in addition to the usual performance criteria via data-driven machine learning techniques. Most of the research in fairness-aware learning employs the setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Pratik Gajane , Akrati Saxena , Maryam Tavakol , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy