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Personalized news recommendation methods are widely used in online news services. These methods usually recommend news based on the matching between news content and user interest inferred from historical behaviors. However, these methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang

In news recommendation systems, reducing popularity bias is essential for delivering accurate and diverse recommendations. This paper presents POPK, a new method that uses temporal-counterfactual analysis to mitigate the influence of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Igor L. R. Azevedo , Toyotaro Suzumura , Yuichiro Yasui

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

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems provide personalized recommendations to users and help businesses attract potential customers. Despite their success, recent studies suggest that highly data-driven recommendations could be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Hossein A. Rahmani , Yashar Deldjoo , Ali Tourani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei

Many recommender systems suffer from popularity bias: popular items are recommended frequently while less popular, niche products, are recommended rarely or not at all. However, recommending the ignored products in the `long tail' is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Himan Abdollahpouri , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Recommender system usually suffers from severe popularity bias -- the collected interaction data usually exhibits quite imbalanced or even long-tailed distribution over items. Such skewed distribution may result from the users' conformity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Zihao Zhao , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Xiangnan He , Xuezhi Cao , Fuzheng Zhang , Wei Wu

The observed ratings in most recommender systems are subjected to popularity bias and are thus not randomly missing. Due to this, only a few popular items are recommended, and a vast number of non-popular items are hardly recommended. Not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Ajay Gangwar , Shweta Jain

Popularity bias fundamentally undermines the personalization capabilities of collaborative filtering (CF) models, causing them to disproportionately recommend popular items while neglecting users' genuine preferences for niche content.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lingfeng Liu , Yixin Song , Dazhong Shen , Bing Yin , Hao Li , Yanyong Zhang , Chao Wang

Popularity bias is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. Such a bias exerts detrimental impact on both users and item providers, and many efforts have been dedicated to studying and solving such a bias. However, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ziwei Zhu , Yun He , Xing Zhao , James Caverlee

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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have become prevalent in recommender system (RS) due to their superiority in modeling collaborative patterns. Although improving the overall accuracy, GCNs unfortunately amplify popularity bias -- tail…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jiajia Chen , Jiancan Wu , Jiawei Chen , Xin Xin , Yong Li , Xiangnan He

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

Recommender systems based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proved to perform well on user-item interactions. However, they commonly suffer from popularity bias -- the tendency to over-recommend popular items -- resulting in less…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mohammad Naeimi , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

Several studies have identified discrepancies between the popularity of items in user profiles and the corresponding recommendation lists. Such behavior, which concerns a variety of recommendation algorithms, is referred to as popularity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Oleg Lesota , Alessandro B. Melchiorre , Navid Rekabsaz , Stefan Brandl , Dominik Kowald , Elisabeth Lex , Markus Schedl

The problem of personalized recommendation in an ocean of data attracts more and more attention recently. Most traditional researches ignore the popularity of the recommended object, which resulting in low personality and accuracy. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Xuzhen Zhu , Hui Tian , Haifeng Liu , Shimin Cai

Recommendation algorithms are susceptible to popularity bias: a tendency to recommend popular items even when they fail to meet user needs. A related issue is that the recommendation quality can vary by demographic groups. Marginalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Nicola Neophytou , Bhaskar Mitra , Catherine Stinson

Top-$K$ recommendation involves inferring latent user preferences and generating personalized recommendations accordingly, which is now ubiquitous in various decision systems. Nonetheless, recommender systems usually suffer from severe…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yishan Han , Biao Xu , Yao Wang , Shanxing Gao

Recommender systems have become an integral part of our daily online experience by analyzing past user behavior to suggest relevant content in entertainment domains such as music, movies, and books. Today, they are among the most widely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Dominik Kowald

Position bias poses a persistent challenge in recommender systems, with much of the existing research focusing on refining ranking relevance and driving user engagement. However, in practical applications, the mitigation of position bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Andrii Dzhoha , Alexey Kurennoy , Vladimir Vlasov , Marjan Celikik

Recommendation algorithms are known to suffer from popularity bias; a few popular items are recommended frequently while the majority of other items are ignored. These recommendations are then consumed by the users, their reaction will be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Masoud Mansoury , Himan Abdollahpouri , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke