Deconfounded recommendation for alleviating bias amplification

W Wang, F Feng, X He, X Wang, TS Chua - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems usually amplify the biases in the data. The model learned from
historical interactions with imbalanced item distribution will amplify the imbalance by over …

Causal representation learning for out-of-distribution recommendation

W Wang, X Lin, F Feng, X He, M Lin… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Modern recommender systems learn user representations from historical interactions, which
suffer from the problem of user feature shifts, such as an income increase. Historical …

Causal inference with latent variables: Recent advances and future prospectives

Y Zhu, Y He, J Ma, M Hu, S Li, J Li - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Causality lays the foundation for the trajectory of our world. Causal inference (CI), which
aims to infer intrinsic causal relations among variables of interest, has emerged as a crucial …

Contrastive learning for debiased candidate generation in large-scale recommender systems

C Zhou, J Ma, J Zhang, J Zhou, H Yang - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Deep candidate generation (DCG) that narrows down the collection of relevant items from
billions to hundreds via representation learning has become prevalent in industrial …

Generalizing graph neural networks on out-of-distribution graphs

S Fan, X Wang, C Shi, P Cui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are proposed without considering the agnostic distribution
shifts between training graphs and testing graphs, inducing the degeneration of the …

User-controllable recommendation against filter bubbles

W Wang, F Feng, L Nie, TS Chua - … of the 45th international ACM SIGIR …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems usually face the issue of filter bubbles: over-recommending
homogeneous items based on user features and historical interactions. Filter bubbles will …

Causal recommendation: Progresses and future directions

W Wang, Y Zhang, H Li, P Wu, F Feng… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data-driven recommender systems have demonstrated great success in various Web
applications owing to the extraordinary ability of machine learning models to recognize …

Deep causal learning for robotic intelligence

Y Li - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This invited Review discusses causal learning in the context of robotic intelligence. The
Review introduces the psychological findings on causal learning in human cognition, as well …

Reliable off-policy learning for dosage combinations

J Schweisthal, D Frauen… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Decision-making in personalized medicine such as cancer therapy or critical care must often
make choices for dosage combinations, ie, multiple continuous treatments. Existing work for …

Synctwin: Treatment effect estimation with longitudinal outcomes

Z Qian, Y Zhang, I Bica, A Wood… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Most of the medical observational studies estimate the causal treatment effects using
electronic health records (EHR), where a patient's covariates and outcomes are both …