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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

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

While deep learning has become a core functional module of most software systems, concerns regarding the fairness of ML predictions have emerged as a significant issue that affects prediction results due to discrimination. Intersectional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Kacy Zhou , Jiawen Wen , Nan Yang , Dong Yuan , Qinghua Lu , Huaming Chen

Recommender systems present a customized list of items based upon user or item characteristics with the objective of reducing a large number of possible choices to a smaller ranked set most likely to appeal to the user. A variety of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 William Noffsinger

Fairness and relevance are two important aspects of recommender systems (RSs). Typically, they are evaluated either (i) separately by individual measures of fairness and relevance, or (ii) jointly using a single measure that accounts for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Theresia Veronika Rampisela , Tuukka Ruotsalo , Maria Maistro , Christina Lioma

Despite the progress made in deepfake detection research, recent studies have shown that biases in the training data for these detectors can result in varying levels of performance across different demographic groups, such as race and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Uzoamaka Ezeakunne , Chrisantus Eze , Xiuwen Liu

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-Based Recommender Systems (RSs) have gained rising attention for their potential to enhance long-term user engagement. However, research in this field faces challenges, including the lack of user-friendly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuanqing Yu , Chongming Gao , Jiawei Chen , Heng Tang , Yuefeng Sun , Qian Chen , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

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

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

In the era of data proliferation, efficiently sifting through vast information to extract meaningful insights has become increasingly crucial. This paper addresses the computational overhead and resource inefficiency prevalent in existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Sheng Zhang , Maolin Wang , Yao Zhao , Chenyi Zhuang , Jinjie Gu , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao , Zijian Zhang , Hongzhi Yin

There is increasing attention to evaluating the fairness of search system ranking decisions. These metrics often consider the membership of items to particular groups, often identified using protected attributes such as gender or ethnicity.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Ömer Kırnap , Fernando Diaz , Asia Biega , Michael Ekstrand , Ben Carterette , Emine Yılmaz

General recommender systems deliver personalized services by learning user and item representations, with the central challenge being how to capture latent user preferences. However, representations derived from sparse interactions often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yu Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Yi Zhang , Lei Sang

As learning machines increase their influence on decisions concerning human lives, analyzing their fairness properties becomes a subject of central importance. Yet, our best tools for measuring the fairness of learning systems are rigid…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-21 David Lopez-Paz , Diane Bouchacourt , Levent Sagun , Nicolas Usunier

Large-scale ASR models have achieved remarkable gains in accuracy and robustness. However, fairness issues remain largely unaddressed despite their critical importance in real-world applications. In this work, we introduce FairASR, a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Jongsuk Kim , Jaemyung Yu , Minchan Kwon , Junmo Kim

Algorithmic fairness for artificial intelligence has become increasingly relevant as these systems become more pervasive in society. One realm of AI, recommender systems, presents unique challenges for fairness due to trade offs between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jessie Smith , Nasim Sonboli , Casey Fiesler , Robin Burke

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques have become powerful tools, enhancing efficiency in law enforcement scenarios. To ensure fairness for demographic groups in different acoustic environments, ASR engines must be tested across a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Yicheng Wang , Mark Cusick , Mohamed Laila , Kate Puech , Zhengping Ji , Xia Hu , Michael Wilson , Noah Spitzer-Williams , Bryan Wheeler , Yasser Ibrahim

Among the machine learning applications to business, recommender systems would take one of the top places when it comes to success and adoption. They help the user in accelerating the process of search while helping businesses maximize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Kiran Rama , Pradeep Kumar , Bharat Bhasker

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in recommender systems (RS) presents new challenges in understanding and evaluating their biases, which can result in unfairness or the amplification of stereotypes. Traditional fairness…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yashar Deldjoo , Fatemeh Nazary

Recommender Systems (RS) play an integral role in enhancing user experiences by providing personalized item suggestions. This survey reviews the progress in RS inclusively from 2017 to 2024, effectively connecting theoretical advances with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shaina Raza , Mizanur Rahman , Safiullah Kamawal , Armin Toroghi , Ananya Raval , Farshad Navah , Amirmohammad Kazemeini

Recommender system has been researched for decades with millions of different versions of algorithms created in the industry. In spite of the huge amount of work spent on the field, there are many basic questions to be answered in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Hao Wang