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Recommendations Systems allow users to identify trending items among a community while being timely and relevant to the user's expectations. When the purpose of various Recommendation Systems differs, the required type of recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Dinuka Ravijaya Piyadigama , Guhanathan Poravi

While decision makers have begun to employ machine learning, machine learning models may make predictions that bias against certain demographic groups. Semi-automated bias detection tools often present reports of automatically-detected…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Po-Ming Law , Sana Malik , Fan Du , Moumita Sinha

As reliance on AI systems for decision-making grows, it becomes critical to ensure that human users can appropriately balance trust in AI suggestions with their own judgment, especially in high-stakes domains like healthcare. However, human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Zichen Chen , Yunhao Luo , Misha Sra

Session-based recommender systems typically focus on using only the triplet (user_id, timestamp, item_id) to make predictions of users' next actions. In this paper, we aim to utilize side information to help recommender systems catch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yukun Jiang , Leo Guo , Xinyi Chen , Jing Xi Liu

Recommender systems help users discover new content, but can also reinforce existing biases, leading to unfair exposure and reduced diversity. This paper introduces and investigates thematic bias in book recommendations, defined as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Nityaa Kalra , Savvina Daniil

Statistical hypothesis testing serves as statistical evidence for scientific innovation. However, if the reported results are intentionally biased, hypothesis testing no longer controls the rate of false discovery. In particular, we study…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-12 Junpei Komiyama , Takanori Maehara

As a highly data-driven application, recommender systems could be affected by data bias, resulting in unfair results for different data groups, which could be a reason that affects the system performance. Therefore, it is important to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yunqi Li , Hanxiong Chen , Zuohui Fu , Yingqiang Ge , Yongfeng Zhang

Recommender systems rely on user behavior data like ratings and clicks to build personalization model. However, the collected data is observational rather than experimental, causing various biases in the data which significantly affect the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Jiawei Chen , Hande Dong , Yang Qiu , Xiangnan He , Xin Xin , Liang Chen , Guli Lin , Keping Yang

In micro-blogging platforms, people connect and interact with others. However, due to cognitive biases, they tend to interact with like-minded people and read agreeable information only. Many efforts to make people connect with those who…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Mounia Lalmas , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Evaluating human-AI decision-making systems is an emerging challenge as new ways of combining multiple AI models towards a specific goal are proposed every day. As humans interact with AI in decision-making systems, multiple factors may be…

While recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of research papers on recommender system (RS), most of the papers focus on inventing machine learning models to better fit user behavior data. However, user behavior data is observational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jiawei Chen , Hande Dong , Xiang Wang , Fuli Feng , Meng Wang , Xiangnan He

Artificial Intelligence based systems may be used as digital nudging techniques that can steer or coerce users to make decisions not always aligned with their true interests. When such systems properly address the issues of Fairness,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 David A. Pelta , Jose L. Verdegay , Maria T. Lamata , Carlos Cruz Corona

Game development is a complex task involving multiple disciplines and technologies. Developers and researchers alike have suggested that AI-driven game design assistants may improve developer workflow. We present a recommender system for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Tiago Machado , Daniel Gopstein , Oded Nov , Angela Wang , Andy Nealen , Julian Togelius

A reciprocal recommendation problem is one where the goal of learning is not just to predict a user's preference towards a passive item (e.g., a book), but to recommend the targeted user on one side another user from the other side such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Fabio Vitale , Nikos Parotsidis , Claudio Gentile

Recommender systems are used in variety of domains affecting people's lives. This has raised concerns about possible biases and discrimination that such systems might exacerbate. There are two primary kinds of biases inherent in recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Golnoosh Farnadi , Pigi Kouki , Spencer K. Thompson , Sriram Srinivasan , Lise Getoor

As algorithmic tools increasingly aid experts in making consequential decisions, the need to understand the precise factors that mediate their influence has grown commensurately. In this paper, we present a crowdsourcing vignette study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Riccardo Fogliato , Sina Fazelpour , Shantanu Gupta , Zachary Lipton , David Danks

Machine learning models learn what we teach them to learn. Machine learning is at the heart of recommender systems. If a machine learning model is trained on biased data, the resulting recommender system may reflect the biases in its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Nadia Fawaz

A central challenge in AI-assisted decision making is achieving warranted, well-calibrated trust. Both overtrust (accepting incorrect AI recommendations) and undertrust (rejecting correct advice) should be prevented. Prior studies differ in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Laura Spillner , Rachel Ringe , Robert Porzel , Rainer Malaka

Disaggregated evaluations of AI systems, in which system performance is assessed and reported separately for different groups of people, are conceptually simple. However, their design involves a variety of choices. Some of these choices…

Why do biased predictions arise? What interventions can prevent them? We evaluate 8.2 million algorithmic predictions of math performance from $\approx$400 AI engineers, each of whom developed an algorithm under a randomly assigned…

General Economics · Economics 2020-12-07 Bo Cowgill , Fabrizio Dell'Acqua , Samuel Deng , Daniel Hsu , Nakul Verma , Augustin Chaintreau