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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

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

Recommender systems have been gaining increasing research attention over the years. Most existing recommendation methods focus on capturing users' personalized preferences through historical user-item interactions, which may potentially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jiazheng Jing , Yinan Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiqi Shen

Many recommender systems suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular items are being recommended frequently while less popular, niche products, are recommended rarely if not at all. However, those ignored products are exactly the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Himan Abdollahpouri , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

User historical interaction data is the primary signal for learning user preferences in collaborative filtering (CF). However, the training data often exhibits a long-tailed distribution, where only a few items have the majority of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Md Aminul Islam , Elena Zheleva , Ren Wang

Nowadays, with the increase in the amount of information generated in the webspace, many web service providers try to use recommender systems to personalize their services and make accessing the content convenient. Recommender systems that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Reza Shafiloo , Marjan Kaedi , Ali Pourmiri

Recently, Generative Recommenders (GRs), characterized by a unified end-to-end framework, have exhibited astonishing potential in transforming the recommendation paradigm. Despite their effectiveness, we recognize that GRs are still…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jun Yin , Bangguo Zhu , Peng Huo , Ruochen Liu , Hao Chen , Senzhang Wang , Shirui Pan , Chengqi Zhang

Recommender systems mainly tailor personalized recommendations according to user interests learned from user feedback. However, such recommender systems passively cater to user interests and even reinforce existing interests in the feedback…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shuxian Bi , Wenjie Wang , Hang Pan , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Research has shown that recommender systems are typically biased towards popular items, which leads to less popular items being underrepresented in recommendations. The recent work of Abdollahpouri et al. in the context of movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Dominik Kowald , Markus Schedl , Elisabeth Lex

Collaborative filtering algorithms have the advantage of not requiring sensitive user or item information to provide recommendations. However, they still suffer from fairness related issues, like popularity bias. In this work, we argue that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Savvina Daniil , Mirjam Cuper , Cynthia C. S. Liem , Jacco van Ossenbruggen , Laura Hollink

The primary goal of a recommender system is often known as "helping users find relevant items", and a lot of recommendation algorithms are proposed accordingly. However, these accuracy-oriented methods usually suffer the problem of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Qiang Dong , Quan Yuan , Yang-Bo Shi

Social recommendation models weave social interactions into their design to provide uniquely personalized recommendation results for users. However, social networks not only amplify the popularity bias in recommendation models, resulting in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xin He , Wenqi Fan , Ruobing Wang , Yili Wang , Ying Wang , Shirui Pan , Xin Wang

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

Popularity bias is a pervasive problem in recommender systems, where recommendations disproportionately favor popular items. This not only results in "rich-get-richer" dynamics and a homogenization of visible content, but can also lead to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mona Schirmer , Anton Thielmann , Pola Schwöbel , Thomas Martynec , Giuseppe Di Benedetto , Ben London , Yannik Stein

Popularity bias is the idea that a recommender system will unduly favor popular artists when recommending artists to users. As such, they may contribute to a winner-take-all marketplace in which a small number of artists receive nearly all…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Douglas R. Turnbull , Sean McQuillan , Vera Crabtree , John Hunter , Sunny Zhang

Recommender systems aim to recommend new items to users by learning user and item representations. In practice, these representations are highly entangled as they consist of information about multiple factors, including user's interests,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Paras Sheth , Ruocheng Guo , Lu Cheng , Huan Liu , K. Selçuk Candan

Debiased recommender models have recently attracted increasing attention from the academic and industry communities. Existing models are mostly based on the technique of inverse propensity score (IPS). However, in the recommendation domain,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Xu Chen

Peer recommendation is a crowdsourcing task that leverages the opinions of many to identify interesting content online, such as news, images, or videos. Peer recommendation applications often use social signals, e.g., the number of prior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-28 Tad Hogg , Kristina Lerman

We propose a simple model of an idealized online cultural market in which $N$ items, endowed with a hidden quality metric, are recommended to users by a ranking algorithm possibly biased by the current items' popularity. Our goal is to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Rossano Gaeta , Michele Garetto , Giancarlo Ruffo , Alessandro Flammini

Selection bias is prevalent in the data for training and evaluating recommendation systems with explicit feedback. For example, users tend to rate items they like. However, when rating an item concerning a specific user, most of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Weishen Pan , Sen Cui , Hongyi Wen , Kun Chen , Changshui Zhang , Fei Wang