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In daily fantasy sports, players enter into "contests" where they compete against each other by building teams of athletes that score fantasy points based on what actually occurs in a real-life sports match. For any given sports match,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Madiraju Srilakshmi , Kartavya Kothari , Kamlesh Marathe , Vedavyas Chigurupati , Hitesh Kapoor

The balancing process for game levels in competitive two-player contexts involves a lot of manual work and testing, particularly for non-symmetrical game levels. In this work, we frame game balancing as a procedural content generation task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Florian Rupp , Manuel Eberhardinger , Kai Eckert

Game balancing is a longstanding challenge requiring repeated playtesting, expert intuition, and extensive manual tuning. We introduce RuleSmith, the first framework that achieves automated game balancing by leveraging the reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ziyao Zeng , Chen Liu , Tianyu Liu , Hao Wang , Xiatao Sun , Fengyu Yang , Xiaofeng Liu , Zhiwen Fan

To maintain fairness, in the terms of resources shared by an individual peer, a proper incentive policy is required in a peer to peer network. This letter proposes, a simpler mechanism to rank the peers based on their resource contributions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Sateesh Kumar Awasthi , Yatindra Nath Singh

This work facilitates ensuring fairness of machine learning in the real world by decoupling fairness considerations in compound decisions. In particular, this work studies how fairness propagates through a compound decision-making…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Amanda Bower , Sarah N. Kitchen , Laura Niss , Martin J. Strauss , Alexander Vargas , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Building fair recommender systems is a challenging and crucial area of study due to its immense impact on society. We extended the definitions of two commonly accepted notions of fairness to recommender systems, namely equality of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-12 Preetam Nandy , Cyrus Diciccio , Divya Venugopalan , Heloise Logan , Kinjal Basu , Noureddine El Karoui

Algorithmic decision systems are increasingly used in areas such as hiring, school admission, or loan approval. Typically, these systems rely on labeled data for training a classification model. However, in many scenarios, ground-truth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Jakob Schoeffer , Niklas Kuehl , Isabel Valera

Champion recommendation in multiplayer online battle arena games is usually framed informally as a problem of metagame strength, personal comfort, or global win rate. We formalize champion recommendation in League of Legends as an…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-19 Min Heo , Pranav Kadiyam , Prasun Panthi

Testing machine learning software for ethical bias has become a pressing current concern. In response, recent research has proposed a plethora of new fairness metrics, for example, the dozens of fairness metrics in the IBM AIF360 toolkit.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Suvodeep Majumder , Joymallya Chakraborty , Gina R. Bai , Kathryn T. Stolee , Tim Menzies

Understanding and removing bias from the decisions made by machine learning models is essential to avoid discrimination against unprivileged groups. Despite recent progress in algorithmic fairness, there is still no clear answer as to which…

In this paper, we derive an algorithmic fairness metric from the fairness notion of equal opportunity for equally qualified candidates for recommendation algorithms commonly used by two-sided marketplaces. We borrow from the economic…

General Economics · Economics 2022-08-23 YinYin Yu , Guillaume Saint-Jacques

Modern video games pose significant challenges for traditional automated testing algorithms, yet intensive testing is crucial to ensure game quality. To address these challenges, researchers designed gaming agents using Reinforcement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yifei Chen , Sarra Habchi , Lili Wei

Algorithmic fairness in the context of personalized recommendation presents significantly different challenges to those commonly encountered in classification tasks. Researchers studying classification have generally considered fairness to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Amanda Aird , Paresha Farastu , Joshua Sun , Elena Štefancová , Cassidy All , Amy Voida , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

Two-stage recommender systems are widely adopted in industry due to their scalability and maintainability. These systems produce recommendations in two steps: (i) multiple nominators preselect a small number of items from a large pool using…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jiri Hron , Karl Krauth , Michael I. Jordan , Niki Kilbertus

Ranked lists are frequently used by information retrieval (IR) systems to present results believed to be relevant to the users information need. Fairness is a relatively new but important aspect of these rankings to measure, joining a rich…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Amifa Raj , Michael D. Ekstrand

Many interesting problems in the Internet industry can be framed as a two-sided marketplace problem. Examples include search applications and recommender systems showing people, jobs, movies, products, restaurants, etc. Incorporating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Kinjal Basu , Cyrus DiCiccio , Heloise Logan , Noureddine El Karoui

Many large-scale recommender systems consist of two stages. The first stage efficiently screens the complete pool of items for a small subset of promising candidates, from which the second-stage model curates the final recommendations. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Lequn Wang , Thorsten Joachims

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

In this paper, a new continuous scoring system for soccer is proposed, based on the proportion of time that a team is winning, losing or tied. Several simulations are made applying this technique to complete seasons of different leagues. As…

Applications · Statistics 2018-03-22 Manuel Cruz , Sandra Ramos , Miguel Pinho

Fairness emerged as an important requirement to guarantee that Machine Learning (ML) predictive systems do not discriminate against specific individuals or entire sub-populations, in particular, minorities. Given the inherent subjectivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Karima Makhlouf , Sami Zhioua , Catuscia Palamidessi