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Collaborative filtering (CF) enables large-scale recommendation systems by encoding information from historical user-item interactions into dense ID-embedding tables. However, as embedding tables grow, closed-form solutions become…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Donald Loveland , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Danai Koutra

Collaborative Filtering (CF) typically suffers from the significant challenge of popularity bias due to the uneven distribution of items in real-world datasets. This bias leads to a significant accuracy gap between popular and unpopular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Miaomiao Cai , Lei Chen , Yifan Wang , Haoyue Bai , Peijie Sun , Le Wu , Min Zhang , Meng Wang

Collaborative filtering (CF) models based on graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance in recommender systems by propagating user-item signals over interaction graphs. However, they are highly susceptible to popularity bias,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Md Aminul Islam , Ahmed Sayeed Faruk , Sourav Medya , Elena Zheleva

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

Collaborative Filtering (CF) models, despite their great success, suffer from severe performance drops due to popularity distribution shifts, where these changes are ubiquitous and inevitable in real-world scenarios. Unfortunately, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 An Zhang , Jingnan Zheng , Xiang Wang , Yancheng Yuan , Tat-Seng Chua

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

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

Popularity bias in recommender systems can increase cultural overrepresentation by favoring norms from dominant cultures and marginalizing underrepresented groups. This issue is critical for platforms offering cultural products, as they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Armin Moradi , Nicola Neophytou , Florian Carichon , Golnoosh Farnadi

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

In the past two decades, open access to news and information has increased rapidly, empowering educated political growth within democratic societies. News recommender systems (NRSs) have shown to be useful in this process, minimizing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Eamon Earl , Chen Ding , Richard Valenzano , Drai Paulen-Patterson

In leading collaborative filtering (CF) models, representations of users and items are prone to learn popularity bias in the training data as shortcuts. The popularity shortcut tricks are good for in-distribution (ID) performance but poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 An Zhang , Wenchang Ma , Jingnan Zheng , Xiang Wang , Tat-seng Chua

Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) has recently emerged as a popular method in recommendation systems (RS), closing the gap between metric learning and Collaborative Filtering. Following the convention of RS, existing methods exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Yuan He , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Recommender system usually faces popularity bias issues: from the data perspective, items exhibit uneven (long-tail) distribution on the interaction frequency; from the method perspective, collaborative filtering methods are prone to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Tianxin Wei , Chonggang Song , Guohui Ling , Yongdong Zhang

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

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 2019-10-17 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most commonly used recommendation methods. CF consists in predicting whether, or how much, a user will like (or dislike) an item by leveraging the knowledge of the user's preferences as well as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Esther Pacitti , Maximilien Servajean , Florent Masseglia , Amr El Abbadi

Beyond accuracy, there are a variety of aspects to the quality of recommender systems, such as diversity, fairness, and robustness. We argue that many of the prevalent problems in recommender systems are partly due to low-dimensionality of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Naoto Ohsaka , Riku Togashi

Recommendation models are usually trained on observational interaction data. However, observational interaction data could result from users' conformity towards popular items, which entangles users' real interest. Existing methods tracks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Yu Zheng , Chen Gao , Xiang Li , Xiangnan He , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) has recently emerged as a popular method in recommendation systems (RS), closing the gap between metric learning and collaborative filtering. Following the convention of RS, existing practices exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Yuan He , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

As the core of recommender system, collaborative filtering (CF) models the affinity between a user and an item from historical user-item interactions, such as clicks, purchases, and so on. Benefited from the strong representation power,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Xiaoyu Du , Xiangnan He , Fajie Yuan , Jinhui Tang , Zhiguang Qin , Tat-Seng Chua
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