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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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have proven to be an effective tool for enhancing the performance of recommender systems. However, these systems often suffer from popularity bias, leading to an unfair advantage for frequently interacted items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nemat Gholinejad , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

The goal of session-based recommendation (SR) models is to utilize the information from past actions (e.g. item/product clicks) in a session to recommend items that a user is likely to click next. Recently it has been shown that the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priyanka Gupta , Diksha Garg , Pankaj Malhotra , Lovekesh Vig , Gautam Shroff

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

Recommender Systems (RSs) are used to provide users with personalized item recommendations and help them overcome the problem of information overload. Currently, recommendation methods based on deep learning are gaining ground over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nikzad Chizari , Niloufar Shoeibi , María N. Moreno-García

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

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

As online music platforms grow, music recommender systems play a vital role in helping users navigate and discover content within their vast musical databases. At odds with this larger goal, is the presence of popularity bias, which causes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Rebecca Salganik , Fernando Diaz , Golnoosh Farnadi

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have become increasingly popular in recommendation systems. However, recent studies have shown that GCN-based models will cause sensitive information to disseminate widely in the graph structure,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tongxin Xu , Wenqiang Liu , Chenzhong Bin , Cihan Xiao , Zhixin Zeng , Tianlong Gu

Recommender systems, which analyze users' preference patterns to suggest potential targets, are indispensable in today's society. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is the most popular recommendation model. Specifically, Graph Neural Network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhuang Liu , Yunpu Ma , Yuanxin Ouyang , Zhang Xiong

Global popularity (GP) bias is the phenomenon that popular items are recommended much more frequently than they should be, which goes against the goal of providing personalized recommendations and harms user experience and recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Wentao Ning , Reynold Cheng , Xiao Yan , Ben Kao , Nan Huo , Nur AI Hasan Haldar , Bo Tang

Popularity bias occurs when popular items are recommended far more frequently than they should be, negatively impacting both user experience and recommendation accuracy. Existing debiasing methods mitigate popularity bias often uniformly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shiyin Tan , Dongyuan Li , Renhe Jiang , Zhen Wang , Xingtong Yu , Manabu Okumura

Recommendation and ranking systems are known to suffer from popularity bias; the tendency of the algorithm to favor a few popular items while under-representing the majority of other items. Prior research has examined various approaches for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher , Edward Malthouse

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

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

Recommender systems learn from historical user-item interactions to identify preferred items for target users. These observed interactions are usually unbalanced following a long-tailed distribution. Such long-tailed data lead to popularity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Weijieying Ren , Lei Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Ruocheng Guo , Lim Ee Peng , Yanjie Fu

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

We propose novel recommendation algorithms to improve fairness in networks. Fairness is measured by how close different nodes are to influencers in the network. To allow for easy comparison of fairness across graphs of different sizes, our…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Naisha Agarwal

Recommender systems often suffer from popularity bias, where popular items are overly recommended while sacrificing unpopular items. Existing researches generally focus on ensuring the number of recommendations exposure of each item is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yuanhao Liu , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Yunfan Wu , Shuchang Tao , Xueqi Cheng

Recommender systems learn from historical users' feedback that is often non-uniformly distributed across items. As a consequence, these systems may end up suggesting popular items more than niche items progressively, even when the latter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras
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