Evaluation methods and measures for causal learning algorithms

L Cheng, R Guo, R Moraffah, P Sheth… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The convenient access to copious multifaceted data has encouraged machine learning
researchers to reconsider correlation-based learning and embrace the opportunity of …

Causal intervention for leveraging popularity bias in recommendation

Y Zhang, F Feng, X He, T Wei, C Song, G Ling… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Recommender system usually faces popularity bias issues: from the data perspective, items
exhibit uneven (usually long-tail) distribution on the interaction frequency; from the method …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Controlling fairness and bias in dynamic learning-to-rank

M Morik, A Singh, J Hong, T Joachims - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
Rankings are the primary interface through which many online platforms match users to
items (eg news, products, music, video). In these two-sided markets, not only the users draw …

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 …

Causal inference for recommendation: Foundations, methods and applications

S Xu, J Ji, Y Li, Y Ge, J Tan, Y Zhang - ACM Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are important and powerful tools for various personalized services.
Traditionally, these systems use data mining and machine learning techniques to make …

Doubly robust joint learning for recommendation on data missing not at random

X Wang, R Zhang, Y Sun, J Qi - International Conference on …, 2019‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
In recommender systems, usually the ratings of a user to most items are missing and a
critical problem is that the missing ratings are often missing not at random (MNAR) in reality …

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 …