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Recommender systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience by providing personalized suggestions based on user preferences. Traditional approaches often rely on explicit numerical ratings or assume access to fully ranked lists of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bahar Boroomand , James R. Wright

Over the years, explosive growth in the number of items in the catalog of e-commerce businesses, such as Amazon, Netflix, Pandora, etc., have warranted the development of recommender systems to guide consumers towards their desired products…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Mojdeh Saadati , Syed Shihab , Mohammed Shaiqur Rahman

One of missions for personalization systems and recommender systems is to show content items according to users' personal interests. In order to achieve such goal, these systems are learning user interests over time and trying to present…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Liangjie Hong , Adnan Boz

We study a model of user decision-making in the context of recommender systems via numerical simulation. Our model provides an explanation for the findings of Nguyen, et. al (2014), where, in environments where recommender systems are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Guy Aridor , Duarte Goncalves , Shan Sikdar

We study the impact of personalized content recommendations on the usage of an educational app for children. In a randomized controlled trial, we show that the introduction of personalized recommendations increases the consumption of…

General Economics · Economics 2022-12-06 Keshav Agrawal , Susan Athey , Ayush Kanodia , Emil Palikot

Recommender systems leverage user demographic information, such as age, gender, etc., to personalize recommendations and better place their targeted ads. Oftentimes, users do not volunteer this information due to privacy concerns, or due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Smriti Bhagat , Udi Weinsberg , Stratis Ioannidis , Nina Taft

Recommender systems are emerging technologies that nowadays can be found in many applications such as Amazon, Netflix, and so on. These systems help users to find relevant information, recommendations, and their preferred items. Slightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Nima Mirbakhsh , Charles X. Ling

Individuals often navigate several options with incomplete knowledge of their own preferences. Information provisioning tools such as public rankings and personalized recommendations have become central to helping individuals make choices,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-05 Omar Besbes , Yash Kanoria , Akshit Kumar

In this paper, we examine the statistical soundness of comparative assessments within the field of recommender systems in terms of reliability and human uncertainty. From a controlled experiment, we get the insight that users provide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Kevin Jasberg , Sergej Sizov

Recommending items to users is a challenging task due to the large amount of missing information. In many cases, the data solely consist of ratings or tags voluntarily contributed by each user on a very limited subset of the available…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-01 Claire Vernade , Olivier Cappé

Recent scholarly work has extensively examined the phenomenon of algorithmic collusion driven by AI-enabled pricing algorithms. However, online platforms commonly deploy recommender systems that influence how consumers discover and purchase…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xingchen Xu , Stephanie Lee , Yong Tan

Recommendation systems rely on user-provided data to learn about item quality and provide personalized recommendations. An implicit assumption when aggregating ratings into item quality is that ratings are strong indicators of item quality.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Rana Shahout , Yehonatan Peisakhovsky , Sasha Stoikov , Nikhil Garg

The drive for personalization in recommender systems creates a tension between user privacy and the risk of "filter bubbles". Although federated learning offers a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving recommendations, its impact on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sven Lankester , Gustavo de Carvalho Bertoli , Matias Vizcaino , Emmanuelle Beauxis Aussalet , Manel Slokom

Recommender systems are central to modern online platforms, but a popular concern is that they may be pulling society in dangerous directions (e.g., towards filter bubbles). However, a challenge with measuring the effects of recommender…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Serina Chang , Johan Ugander

Recommender systems often operate on item catalogs clustered by genres, and user bases that have natural clusterings into user types by demographic or psychographic attributes. Prior work on system-wide diversity has mainly focused on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Arda Antikacioglu , Tanvi Bajpai , R. Ravi

Recommendation systems are pervasive in the digital economy. An important assumption in many deployed systems is that user consumption reflects user preferences in a static sense: users consume the content they like with no other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Andreas Haupt , Dylan Hadfield-Menell , Chara Podimata

Inspired by the legacy of the Netflix contest, we provide an overview of what has been learned---from our own efforts, and those of others---concerning the problems of collaborative filtering and recommender systems. The data set consists…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-07-25 Andrey Feuerverger , Yu He , Shashi Khatri

Recommendation algorithms play a pivotal role in shaping our media choices, which makes it crucial to comprehend their long-term impact on user behavior. These algorithms are often linked to two critical outcomes: homogenization, wherein…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Md Sanzeed Anwar , Grant Schoenebeck , Paramveer S. Dhillon

Predicting the future popularity of online content is highly important in many applications. Preferential attachment phenomena is encountered in scale free networks.Under it's influece popular items get more popular thereby resulting in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Khushnood Abbas , Shang Mingsheng , Luo Xin

In recent years, the Internet has been dominated by content-rich platforms, employing recommendation systems to provide users with more appealing content (e.g., videos in YouTube, movies in Netflix). While traditional content…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Evangelia Tzimpimpaki , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos