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 …

Deconfounded causal collaborative filtering

S Xu, J Tan, S Heinecke, VJ Li, Y Zhang - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems may be confounded by various types of confounding factors (also
called confounders) that may lead to inaccurate recommendations and sacrificed …

Causal disentangled recommendation against user preference shifts

W Wang, X Lin, L Wang, F Feng, Y Ma… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems easily face the issue of user preference shifts. User representations
will become out-of-date and lead to inappropriate recommendations if user preference has …

Path-specific counterfactual fairness for recommender systems

Y Zhu, J Ma, L Wu, Q Guo, L Hong, J Li - Proceedings of the 29th ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems (RSs) have become an indispensable part of online platforms. With
the growing concerns of algorithmic fairness, RSs are not only expected to deliver high …

Causal Structure Learning for Recommender System

S Xu, D Xu, E Korpeoglu, S Kumar, S Guo… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A fundamental challenge of recommender systems (RS) is understanding the causal
dynamics underlying users' decision making. Most existing literature addresses this problem …

Causal Deconfounding via Confounder Disentanglement for Dual-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation

J Zhu, Y Wang, F Zhu, Z Sun - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.11180, 2024 - arxiv.org
In recent years, dual-target Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) has been proposed to
capture comprehensive user preferences in order to ultimately enhance the …

Causal Learning for Trustworthy Recommender Systems: A Survey

J Li, S Wang, Q Zhang, L Cao, F Chen, X Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recommender Systems (RS) have significantly advanced online content discovery and
personalized decision-making. However, emerging vulnerabilities in RS have catalyzed a …

Revisiting Reciprocal Recommender Systems: Metrics, Formulation, and Method

C Yang, S Dai, Y Hou, WX Zhao, J Xu, Y Song… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Reciprocal recommender systems~(RRS), conducting bilateral recommendations between
two involved parties, have gained increasing attention for enhancing matching efficiency …

Ranking the causal impact of recommendations under collider bias in k-spots recommender systems

A Ruiz De villa, G Sottocornola, L Coba… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The first objective of recommender systems is to provide personalized recommendations for
each user. However, personalization may not be its only use. Past recommendations can be …

Causal Explainable AI

S Xu, Y Ge, Y Zhang - Machine Learning for Causal Inference, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning has achieved significant success in many AI applications that
have been deployed. Most early approaches focused on optimizing performance …