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Personalized content on social platforms can exacerbate negative phenomena such as polarization, partly due to the feedback interactions between recommendations and the users. In this paper, we present a control-theoretic recommender system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Sanjay Chandrasekaran , Giulia De Pasquale , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Florian Dörfler

Digital platforms such as social media and e-commerce websites adopt Recommender Systems to provide value to the user. However, the social consequences deriving from their adoption are still unclear. Many scholars argue that recommenders…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Erica Coppolillo , Simone Mungari , Ettore Ritacco , Francesco Fabbri , Marco Minici , Francesco Bonchi , Giuseppe Manco

Many recommendation algorithms rely on user data to generate recommendations. However, these recommendations also affect the data obtained from future users. This work aims to understand the effects of this dynamic interaction. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-29 Sven Schmit , Carlos Riquelme

Recommender systems daily influence our decisions on the Internet. While considerable attention has been given to issues such as recommendation accuracy and user privacy, the long-term mutual feedback between a recommender system and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-08-10 An Zeng , Chi Ho Yeung , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Large language model-based agents are increasingly applied in the recommendation field due to their extensive knowledge and strong planning capabilities. While prior research has primarily focused on enhancing either the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Shihao Cai , Jizhi Zhang , Keqin Bao , Chongming Gao , Qifan Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Traditional recommender systems present a relatively static list of recommendations to a user where the feedback is typically limited to an accept/reject or a rating model. However, these simple modes of feedback may only provide limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Oznur Alkan , Elizabeth M. Daly , Adi Botea

As personalized recommendation algorithms become integral to social media platforms, users are increasingly aware of their ability to influence recommendation content. However, limited research has explored how users provide feedback…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Wenqi Li , Jui-Ching Kuo , Manyu Sheng , Pengyi Zhang , Qunfang Wu

In real-world applications, users always interact with items in multiple aspects, such as through implicit binary feedback (e.g., clicks, dislikes, long views) and explicit feedback (e.g., comments, reviews). Modern recommendation systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shuo Yang , Jiangxia Cao , Haipeng Li , Yuqi Mao , Shuchao Pang

News recommendation for anonymous readers is a useful but challenging task for many news portals, where interactions between readers and articles are limited within a temporary login session. Previous works tend to formulate session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shansan Gong , Kenny Q. Zhu

Most existing recommender systems focus primarily on matching users to content which maximizes user satisfaction on the platform. It is increasingly obvious, however, that content providers have a critical influence on user satisfaction…

The closed feedback loop in recommender systems is a common setting that can lead to different types of biases. Several studies have dealt with these biases by designing methods to mitigate their effect on the recommendations. However, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Sami Khenissi , Mariem Boujelbene , Olfa Nasraoui

Recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users navigate an overwhelming selection of products and services. On online platforms, users have the opportunity to share feedback in various modes, including numerical ratings, textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Emrul Hasan , Mizanur Rahman , Chen Ding , Jimmy Xiangji Huang , Shaina Raza

Recommender systems are an important part of the modern human experience whose influence ranges from the food we eat to the news we read. Yet, there is still debate as to what extent recommendation platforms are aligned with the user goals.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Arpit Agarwal , Nicolas Usunier , Alessandro Lazaric , Maximilian Nickel

Recommender systems rely heavily on user feedback to learn effective user and item representations. Despite their widespread adoption, limited attention has been given to the uncertainty inherent in the feedback used to train these systems.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Bruno Sguerra , Viet-Anh Tran , Romain Hennequin , Manuel Moussallam

Understanding the structure and evolution of web-based user-object bipartite networks is an important task since they play a fundamental role in online information filtering. In this paper, we focus on investigating the patterns of online…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Cheng-Jun Zhang , An Zeng

Interactive AI systems, such as recommendation engines and virtual assistants, commonly use static user profiles and predefined rules to personalize interactions. However, these methods often fail to capture the dynamic nature of user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Liu He

We consider a recommender system that takes into account the interplay between recommendations, the evolution of user interests, and harmful content. We model the impact of recommendations on user behavior, particularly the tendency to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jerry Chee , Shankar Kalyanaraman , Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala , Udi Weinsberg , Sarah Dean , Stratis Ioannidis

Recommender systems serve the dual purpose of presenting relevant content to users and helping content creators reach their target audience. The dual nature of these systems naturally influences both users and creators: users' preferences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Tao Lin , Kun Jin , Andrew Estornell , Xiaoying Zhang , Yiling Chen , Yang Liu

Recommender systems are information retrieval methods that predict user preferences to personalize services. These systems use the feedback and the ratings provided by users to model the behavior of users and to generate recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Alireza Gharahighehi , Felipe Kenji Nakano , Celine Vens

Recommender system has been deployed in a large amount of real-world applications, profoundly influencing people's daily life and production.Traditional recommender models mostly collect as comprehensive as possible user behaviors for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lei Wang , Xu Chen , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong