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Two typical forms of bias in user interaction data with recommender systems (RSs) are popularity bias and positivity bias, which manifest themselves as the over-representation of interactions with popular items or items that users prefer,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jin Huang , Harrie Oosterhuis , Masoud Mansoury , Herke van Hoof , Maarten de Rijke

Popularity bias and positivity bias are two prominent sources of bias in recommender systems. Both arise from input data, propagate through recommendation models, and lead to unfair or suboptimal outcomes. Popularity bias occurs when a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Masoud Mansoury , Jin Huang , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Herke van Hoof , Maarten de Rijke

Recommender systems (RSs) employ user-item feedback, e.g., ratings, to match customers to personalized lists of products. Approaches to top-k recommendation mainly rely on Learning-To-Rank algorithms and, among them, the most widely adopted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Felice Antonio Merra

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have shown great success in accurately capturing a user's current and detailed preference through the multi-round interaction cycle while effectively guiding users to a more personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Acquiring valuable data from the rapidly expanding information on the internet has become a significant concern, and recommender systems have emerged as a widely used and effective tool for helping users discover items of interest. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Steven Hoi , Edith Ngai

Recently, multimodal recommendations (MMR) have gained increasing attention for alleviating the data sparsity problem of traditional recommender systems by incorporating modality-based representations. Although MMR exhibits notable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Weixin Chen , Li Chen , Yongxin Ni , Yuhan Zhao

Popularity bias is a well-known issue in recommender systems where few popular items are over-represented in the input data, while majority of other less popular items are under-represented. This disparate representation often leads to bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Masoud Mansoury , Finn Duijvestijn , Imane Mourabet

The recommender system (RS) has been an integral toolkit of online services. They are equipped with various deep learning techniques to model user preference based on identifier and attribute information. With the emergence of multimedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qidong Liu , Jiaxi Hu , Yutian Xiao , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Wanyu Wang , Qing Li , Jiliang Tang

Recommender Systems (RS) often suffer from popularity bias, where a small set of popular items dominate the recommendation results due to their high interaction rates, leaving many less popular items overlooked. This phenomenon…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Juno Prent , Masoud Mansoury

Recent studies have shown that recommendation systems commonly suffer from popularity bias. Popularity bias refers to the problem that popular items (i.e., frequently rated items) are recommended frequently while less popular items are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Hossein A. Rahmani , Mahdi Dehghan

Popularity bias is a well-known phenomenon in recommender systems: popular items are recommended even more frequently than their popularity would warrant, amplifying long-tail effects already present in many recommendation domains. Prior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Recently there has been a growing interest in fairness-aware recommender systems, including fairness in providing consistent performance across different users or groups of users. A recommender system could be considered unfair if the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Recommender systems usually learn user interests from various user behaviors, including clicks and post-click behaviors (e.g., like and favorite). However, these behaviors inevitably exhibit popularity bias, leading to some unfairness…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xi Wang , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Wenge Rong , Chuantao Yin , Zhang Xiong

Traditionally, especially in academic research in recommender systems, the focus has been solely on the satisfaction of the end-user. While user satisfaction has, indeed, been associated with the success of the business, it is not the only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Himan Abdollahpouri

Recommendation Systems (RS) are often plagued by popularity bias. When training a recommendation model on a typically long-tailed dataset, the model tends to not only inherit this bias but often exacerbate it, resulting in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Siyi Lin , Chongming Gao , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Binbin Hu , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Can Wang

Recommender systems help people find relevant content in a personalized way. One main promise of such systems is that they are able to increase the visibility of items in the long tail, i.e., the lesser-known items in a catalogue. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Anastasiia Klimashevskaia , Dietmar Jannach , Mehdi Elahi , Christoph Trattner

Multimedia recommender systems suggest media items, e.g., songs, (digital) books and movies, to users by utilizing concepts of traditional recommender systems such as collaborative filtering. In this paper, we investigate a potential issue…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dominik Kowald , Emanuel Lacic

Multimodal recommendation faces an issue of the performance degradation that the uni-modal recommendation sometimes achieves the better performance. A possible reason is that the unreliable item modality data hurts the fusion result.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xue Dong , Xuemeng Song , Na Zheng , Sicheng Zhao , Guiguang Ding

Academic research in recommender systems has been greatly focusing on the accuracy-related measures of recommendations. Even when non-accuracy measures such as popularity bias, diversity, and novelty are studied, it is often solely from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury

Nowadays, the recommendation systems are applied in the fields of e-commerce, video websites, social networking sites, etc., which bring great convenience to people's daily lives. The types of the information are diversified and abundant in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Junmei Lv , Bin Song , Jie Guo , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani
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