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Recommender systems are essential for personalizing digital experiences on e-commerce sites, streaming services, and social media platforms. While these systems are necessary for modern digital interactions, they face fairness, bias,…

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Pairwise learning strategies are prevalent for optimizing recommendation models on implicit feedback data, which usually learns user preference by discriminating between positive (i.e., clicked by a user) and negative items (i.e., obtained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xiao Chen , Wenqi Fan , Jingfan Chen , Haochen Liu , Zitao Liu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qing Li

Package-to-group recommender systems recommend a set of unified items to a group of people. Different from conventional settings, it is not easy to measure the utility of group recommendations because it involves more than one user. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ryoma Sato

Fair machine learning is receiving an increasing attention in machine learning fields. Researchers in fair learning have developed correlation or association-based measures such as demographic disparity, mistreatment disparity, calibration,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Wen Huang , Yongkai Wu , Lu Zhang , Xintao Wu

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is an effective way to alleviate the cold-start problem. However, previous work severely ignores fairness and bias when learning the mapping function, which is used to obtain the representations for fresh…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiakai Tang , Xu Chen , Xueyang Feng

Online dating platforms have fundamentally transformed the formation of romantic relationships, with millions of users worldwide relying on algorithmic matching systems to find compatible partners. However, current recommendation systems in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Madhav Kotecha

State-of-the-art order dispatching algorithms for ridesharing batch passenger requests and allocate them to a fleet of vehicles in a centralized manner, optimizing over the estimated values of each passenger-vehicle matching using integer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ashwin Kumar , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , William Yeoh

On two-sided matching platforms such as online dating and recruiting, recommendation algorithms often aim to maximize the total number of matches. However, this objective creates an imbalance, where some users receive far too many matches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ren Kishimoto , Rikiya Takehi , Koichi Tanaka , Masahiro Nomura , Riku Togashi , Yoji Tomita , Yuta Saito

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

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

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

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

Performance unfairness among variables widely exists in multivariate time series (MTS) forecasting models since such models may attend/bias to certain (advantaged) variables. Addressing this unfairness problem is important for equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hui He , Qi Zhang , Shoujin Wang , Kun Yi , Zhendong Niu , Longbing Cao

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

When using machine learning to aid decision-making, it is critical to ensure that an algorithmic decision is fair and does not discriminate against specific individuals/groups, particularly those from underprivileged populations. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yifei Wang , Zhengyang Zhou , Liqin Wang , John Laurentiev , Peter Hou , Li Zhou , Pengyu Hong

Considering the impact of recommendations on item providers is one of the duties of multi-sided recommender systems. Item providers are key stakeholders in online platforms, and their earnings and plans are influenced by the exposure their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

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

As they have a vital effect on social decision-making, AI algorithms should be not only accurate but also fair. Among various algorithms for fairness AI, learning fair representation (LFR), whose goal is to find a fair representation with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-12 Dongha Kim , Kunwoong Kim , Insung Kong , Ilsang Ohn , Yongdai Kim

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 2020-08-24 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

This paper explores the biases in ChatGPT-based recommender systems, focusing on provider fairness (item-side fairness). Through extensive experiments and over a thousand API calls, we investigate the impact of prompt design…

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