Bias and debias in recommender system: A survey and future directions

J Chen, H Dong, X Wang, F Feng, M Wang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Microsoft academic graph: When experts are not enough

K Wang, Z Shen, C Huang, CH Wu, Y Dong… - Quantitative Science …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
An ongoing project explores the extent to which artificial intelligence (AI), specifically in the
areas of natural language processing and semantic reasoning, can be exploited to facilitate …

Recommending what video to watch next: a multitask ranking system

Z Zhao, L Hong, L Wei, J Chen, A Nath… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we introduce a large scale multi-objective ranking system for recommending
what video to watch next on an industrial video sharing platform. The system faces many …

AutoDebias: Learning to debias for recommendation

J Chen, H Dong, Y Qiu, X He, X **n, L Chen… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems rely on user behavior data like ratings and clicks to build
personalization model. However, the collected data is observational rather than …

Equity of attention: Amortizing individual fairness in rankings

AJ Biega, KP Gummadi, G Weikum - … acm sigir conference on research & …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Rankings of people and items are at the heart of selection-making, match-making, and
recommender systems, ranging from employment sites to sharing economy platforms. As …

Unbiased learning-to-rank with biased feedback

T Joachims, A Swaminathan, T Schnabel - Proceedings of the tenth …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Implicit feedback (eg, clicks, dwell times, etc.) is an abundant source of data in human-
interactive systems. While implicit feedback has many advantages (eg, it is inexpensive to …

Unbiased Learning to Rank: On Recent Advances and Practical Applications

S Gupta, P Hager, J Huang, A Vardasbi… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Since its inception, the field of unbiased learning to rank (ULTR) has remained very active
and has seen several impactful advancements in recent years. This tutorial provides both an …

Position bias estimation for unbiased learning to rank in personal search

X Wang, N Golbandi, M Bendersky, D Metzler… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
A well-known challenge in learning from click data is its inherent bias and most notably
position bias. Traditional click models aim to extract the‹ query, document› relevance and …

Evaluating stochastic rankings with expected exposure

F Diaz, B Mitra, MD Ekstrand, AJ Biega… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the concept of expected exposure as the average attention ranked items
receive from users over repeated samples of the same query. Furthermore, we advocate for …

Joint multisided exposure fairness for recommendation

H Wu, B Mitra, C Ma, F Diaz, X Liu - … of the 45th International ACM SIGIR …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Prior research on exposure fairness in the context of recommender systems has focused
mostly on disparities in the exposure of individual or groups of items to individual users of …