Model-agnostic counterfactual reasoning for eliminating popularity bias in recommender system

T Wei, F Feng, J Chen, Z Wu, J Yi, X He - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The general aim of the recommender system is to provide personalized suggestions to
users, which is opposed to suggesting popular items. However, the normal training …

Trustworthy recommender systems

S Wang, X Zhang, Y Wang, F Ricci - ACM Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems (RSs) aim at hel** users to effectively retrieve items of their
interests from a large catalogue. For a quite long time, researchers and practitioners have …

Disentangling user interest and conformity for recommendation with causal embedding

Y Zheng, C Gao, X Li, X He, Y Li, D ** - Proceedings of the Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation models are usually trained on observational interaction data. However,
observational interaction data could result from users' conformity towards popular items …

Recommender systems based on graph embedding techniques: A review

Y Deng - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a pivotal tool to alleviate the information overload problem, recommender systems aim to
predict user's preferred items from millions of candidates by analyzing observed user-item …

Incorporating bias-aware margins into contrastive loss for collaborative filtering

A Zhang, W Ma, X Wang… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Collaborative filtering (CF) models easily suffer from popularity bias, which makes
recommendation deviate from users' actual preferences. However, most current debiasing …

Clicks can be cheating: Counterfactual recommendation for mitigating clickbait issue

W Wang, F Feng, X He, H Zhang, TS Chua - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation is a prevalent and critical service in information systems. To provide
personalized suggestions to users, industry players embrace machine learning, more …

Invariant collaborative filtering to popularity distribution shift

A Zhang, J Zheng, X Wang, Y Yuan… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Collaborative Filtering (CF) models, despite their great success, suffer from severe
performance drops due to popularity distribution shifts, where these changes are ubiquitous …

Mitigating confounding bias in recommendation via information bottleneck

D Liu, P Cheng, H Zhu, Z Dong, X He, W Pan… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
How to effectively mitigate the bias of feedback in recommender systems is an important
research topic. In this paper, we first describe the generation process of the biased and …

Multimodal graph causal embedding for multimedia-based recommendation

S Li, F Xue, K Liu, D Guo, R Hong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multimedia-based recommendation (MMRec) models typically rely on observed user-item
interactions and the multimodal content of items, such as visual images and textual …

Recogym: A reinforcement learning environment for the problem of product recommendation in online advertising

D Rohde, S Bonner, T Dunlop, F Vasile… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Recommender Systems are becoming ubiquitous in many settings and take many forms,
from product recommendation in e-commerce stores, to query suggestions in search …