Predictive uncertainty-based bias mitigation in ranking

M Heuss, D Cohen, M Mansoury, M Rijke… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Societal biases that are contained in retrieved documents have received increased interest.
Such biases, which are often prevalent in the training data and learned by the model, can …

Ranking distillation for open-ended video question answering with insufficient labels

T Liang, C Tan, B **a, WS Zheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper focuses on open-ended video question answering which aims to find the correct
answers from a large answer set in response to a video-related question. This is essentially …

Unbiased learning-to-rank needs unconfounded propensity estimation

D Luo, L Zou, Q Ai, Z Chen, C Li, D Yin… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The logs of the use of a search engine provide sufficient data to train a better ranker.
However, it is well known that such implicit feedback reflects biases, and in particular a …

GPR-OPT: A Practical Gaussian optimization criterion for implicit recommender systems

T Bai, X Wang, Z Zhang, W Song, B Wu… - Information Processing & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Implicit recommendation refers to the users' feedback on items derived from their
interactions with items, ie, clicks, and purchases. The methods in the implicit …

Mitigating exploitation bias in learning to rank with an uncertainty-aware empirical Bayes approach

T Yang, C Han, C Luo, P Gupta, JM Phillips… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Ranking is at the core of many artificial intelligence (AI) applications, including search
engines, recommender systems, etc. Modern ranking systems are often constructed with …

Marginal-certainty-aware fair ranking algorithm

T Yang, Z Xu, Z Wang, A Tran, Q Ai - … on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Ranking systems are ubiquitous in modern Internet services, including online marketplaces,
social media, and search engines. Traditionally, ranking systems only focus on how to get …

Approximated doubly robust search relevance estimation

L Zou, C Hao, H Cai, S Wang, S Cheng… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Extracting query-document relevance from the sparse, biased clickthrough log is among the
most fundamental tasks in the web search system. Prior art mainly learns a relevance …

Stability and multigroup fairness in ranking with uncertain predictions

S Devic, A Korolova, D Kempe, V Sharan - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Rankings are ubiquitous across many applications, from search engines to hiring
committees. In practice, many rankings are derived from the output of predictors. However …

FARA: Future-aware ranking algorithm for fairness optimization

T Yang, Z Xu, Z Wang, Q Ai - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Ranking systems are the key components of modern Information Retrieval (IR) applications,
such as search engines and recommender systems. Besides the ranking relevance to users …

Investigating fairness in machine learning-based audio sentiment analysis

S Luitel, Y Liu, M Anwar - AI and Ethics, 2024 - Springer
Audio sentiment analysis is a growing area of research, however little attention has been
paid to the fairness of machine learning models in this field. Whilst the current literature …