Should fairness be a metric or a model? A model-based framework for assessing bias in machine learning pipelines

JP Lalor, A Abbasi, K Oketch, Y Yang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Fairness measurement is crucial for assessing algorithmic bias in various types of machine
learning (ML) models, including ones used for search relevance, recommendation …

Mitigating Sample Selection Bias with Robust Domain Adaption in Multimedia Recommendation

J Lin, Q Li, G **e, Z Guan, Y Jiang, T Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Industrial multimedia recommendation systems extensively utilize cascade architectures to
deliver personalized content for users, generally consisting of multiple stages like retrieval …

Debiasing Sequential Recommenders through Distributionally Robust Optimization over System Exposure

J Yang, Y Ding, Y Wang, P Ren, Z Chen, F Cai… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Sequential recommendation (SR) models are typically trained on user-item interactions
which are affected by the system exposure bias, leading to the user preference learned from …

Unbiased, Effective, and Efficient Distillation from Heterogeneous Models for Recommender Systems

SK Kang, W Kweon, D Lee, J Lian, X **e… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, recommender systems have achieved remarkable performance by using
ensembles of heterogeneous models. However, this approach is costly due to the resources …

Prior-guided accuracy-bias tradeoff learning for CTR prediction in multimedia recommendation

D Liu, Y Qiao, X Tang, L Chen, X He… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Although debiasing in multimedia recommendation has shown promising results, most
existing work relies on the ability of the model itself to fully disentangle the biased and …

DPR: An Algorithm Mitigate Bias Accumulation in Recommendation feedback loops

H Xu, Y Xu, Y Yang, F Zhuang, H **ong - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.05864, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recommendation models trained on the user feedback collected from deployed
recommendation systems are commonly biased. User feedback is considerably affected by …

Epsilon non-Greedy: A Bandit Approach for Unbiased Recommendation via Uniform Data

SMF Sani, SA Hosseini… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Often, recommendation systems employ continuous training, leading to a self-feedback loop
bias in which the system becomes biased toward its previous recommendations. Recent …