A survey on causal inference for recommendation

H Luo, F Zhuang, R **e, H Zhu, D Wang, Z An, Y Xu - The Innovation, 2024 - cell.com
Causal inference has recently garnered significant interest among recommender system
(RS) researchers due to its ability to dissect cause-and-effect relationships and its broad …

Optimal transport for treatment effect estimation

H Wang, J Fan, Z Chen, H Li, W Liu… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating individual treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to
treatment selection bias. Prevalent methods mainly mitigate this issue by aligning different …

Propensity matters: Measuring and enhancing balancing for recommendation

H Li, Y **ao, C Zheng, P Wu… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Propensity-based weighting methods have been widely studied and demonstrated
competitive performance in debiased recommendations. Nevertheless, there are still many …

Removing hidden confounding in recommendation: a unified multi-task learning approach

H Li, K Wu, C Zheng, Y **ao, H Wang… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In recommender systems, the collected data used for training is always subject to selection
bias, which poses a great challenge for unbiased learning. Previous studies proposed …

Balancing unobserved confounding with a few unbiased ratings in debiased recommendations

H Li, Y **ao, C Zheng, P Wu - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are seen as an effective tool to address information overload, but it
is widely known that the presence of various biases makes direct training on large-scale …

StableDR: Stabilized doubly robust learning for recommendation on data missing not at random

H Li, C Zheng, P Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.04701, 2022 - arxiv.org
In recommender systems, users always choose the favorite items to rate, which leads to data
missing not at random and poses a great challenge for unbiased evaluation and learning of …

Relaxing the accurate imputation assumption in doubly robust learning for debiased collaborative filtering

H Li, C Zheng, S Wang, K Wu, E Wang… - … on Machine Learning, 2024 - openreview.net
Recommender system aims to recommend items or information that may interest users
based on their behaviors and preferences. However, there may be sampling selection bias …

Doubly calibrated estimator for recommendation on data missing not at random

W Kweon, H Yu - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems often suffer from selection bias as users tend to rate their preferred
items. The datasets collected under such conditions exhibit entries missing not at random …

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 …

Debiased recommendation with noisy feedback

H Li, C Zheng, W Wang, H Wang, F Feng… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Ratings of a user to most items in recommender systems are usually missing not at random
(MNAR), largely because users are free to choose which items to rate. To achieve unbiased …