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We explore the fairness issue that arises in recommender systems. Biased data due to inherent stereotypes of particular groups (e.g., male students' average rating on mathematics is often higher than that on humanities, and vice versa for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Jaewoong Cho , Moonseok Choi , Changho Suh

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

Ranking functions that are used in decision systems often produce disparate results for different populations because of bias in the underlying data. Addressing, and compensating for, these disparate outcomes is a critical problem for fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Abraham Gale , Amélie Marian

Research on fairness in machine learning has been recently extended to recommender systems. One of the factors that may impact fairness is bias disparity, the degree to which a group's preferences on various item categories fail to be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Masoud Mansoury , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Search and recommendation systems, such as search engines, recruiting tools, online marketplaces, news, and social media, output ranked lists of content, products, and sometimes, people. Credit ratings, standardized tests, risk assessments…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sruthi Gorantla , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

How diverse are sharing economy platforms? Are they fair marketplaces, where all participants operate on a level playing field, or are they large-scale online aggregators of offline human biases? Often portrayed as easy-to-access digital…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Victoria Koh , Weihua Li , Giacomo Livan , Licia Capra

In social recommender systems, it is crucial that the recommendation models provide equitable visibility for different demographic groups, such as gender or race. Most existing research has addressed this problem by only studying individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Meng Cao , Hussain Hussain , Sandipan Sikdar , Denis Helic , Markus Strohmaier , Roman Kern

Bias in recommender systems not only distorts user experience but also perpetuates and amplifies existing societal stereotypes, particularly in sectors like fashion e-commerce. This study employs a dynamic modeling approach to scrutinize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mahsa Goodarzi , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Rankings have become the primary interface in two-sided online markets. Many have noted that the rankings not only affect the satisfaction of the users (e.g., customers, listeners, employers, travelers), but that the position in the ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yuta Saito , Thorsten Joachims

Ensuring fair outcomes for multiple stakeholders in recommender systems has been studied mostly in terms of algorithmic interventions: building new models with better fairness properties, or using reranking to improve outcomes from an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Elizabeth McKinnie , Anas Buhayh , Clement Canel , Robin Burke

Rankings of people and items has been highly used in selection-making, match-making, and recommendation algorithms that have been deployed on ranging of platforms from employment websites to searching tools. The ranking position of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Rankings are the primary interface through which many online platforms match users to items (e.g. news, products, music, video). In these two-sided markets, not only the users draw utility from the rankings, but the rankings also determine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Marco Morik , Ashudeep Singh , Jessica Hong , Thorsten Joachims

We address the critical issue of biased algorithms and unfair rankings, which have permeated various sectors, including search engines, recommendation systems, and workforce management. These biases can lead to discriminatory outcomes in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chiara Criscuolo , Davide Martinenghi , Giuseppe Piccirillo

As information filtering services, recommender systems have extremely enriched our daily life by providing personalized suggestions and facilitating people in decision-making, which makes them vital and indispensable to human society in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Di Jin , Luzhi Wang , He Zhang , Yizhen Zheng , Weiping Ding , Feng Xia , Shirui Pan

Driven by the new economic opportunities created by the creator economy, an increasing number of content creators rely on and compete for revenue generated from online content recommendation platforms. This burgeoning competition reshapes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Fan Yao , Yiming Liao , Mingzhe Wu , Chuanhao Li , Yan Zhu , James Yang , Qifan Wang , Haifeng Xu , Hongning Wang

Digital platforms, including social networks, are major sources of economic information. Evidence suggests that digital platforms display different socioeconomic opportunities to demographic groups. Our work addresses this issue by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Sara Kingsley , Clara Wang , Alex Mikhalenko , Proteeti Sinha , Chinmay Kulkarni

We introduce a fairness-aware dataset for job recommendations in advertising, designed to foster research in algorithmic fairness within real-world scenarios. It was collected and prepared to comply with privacy standards and business…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Mariia Vladimirova , Federico Pavone , Eustache Diemert

In addition to their benefits, optimization systems can have negative economic, moral, social, and political effects on populations as well as their environments. Frameworks like fairness have been proposed to aid service providers in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Rebekah Overdorf , Bogdan Kulynych , Ero Balsa , Carmela Troncoso , Seda Gürses

Fairness is a critical system-level objective in recommender systems that has been the subject of extensive recent research. It is especially important in multi-sided recommendation platforms where it may be crucial to optimize utilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Masoud Mansoury

The ongoing rapid development of the e-commercial and interest-base websites make it more pressing to evaluate objects' accurate quality before recommendation by employing an effective reputation system. The objects' quality are often…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-23 Leilei Wu , Zhuoming Ren , Xiao-Long Ren , Jianlin Zhang , Linyuan Lü