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 …

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 …

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 …

Addressing Hidden Confounding with Heterogeneous Observational Datasets for Recommendation

Y **ao, H Li, Y Tang, W Zhang - Advances in Neural …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The collected data in recommender systems generally suffers selection bias. Considerable
works are proposed to address selection bias induced by observed user and item features …

Equivariant learning for out-of-distribution cold-start recommendation

W Wang, X Lin, L Wang, F Feng, Y Wei… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems rely on user-item interactions to learn Collaborative Filtering (CF)
signals and easily under-recommend the cold-start items without historical interactions. To …

Counterclr: Counterfactual contrastive learning with non-random missing data in recommendation

J Wang, H Li, C Zhang, D Liang, E Yu… - … Conference on Data …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recommender systems are designed to learn user preferences from observed feedback and
comprise many fundamental tasks, such as rating prediction and post-click conversion rate …

Uncovering the propensity identification problem in debiased recommendations

H Zhang, S Wang, H Li, C Zheng… - 2024 IEEE 40th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In database of recommender systems, users' ratings for most items are usually missing,
resulting in selection bias when users selectively choose items to rate. To address this …

An accurate and interpretable framework for trustworthy process monitoring

H Wang, Z Wang, Y Niu, Z Liu, H Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trustworthy process monitoring seeks to build an accurate and interpretable monitoring
framework, which is critical for ensuring the safety of energy conversion plant (ECP) that …

Be Aware of the Neighborhood Effect: Modeling Selection Bias under Interference

H Li, C Zheng, S Ding, P Wu, Z Geng, F Feng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Selection bias in recommender system arises from the recommendation process of system
filtering and the interactive process of user selection. Many previous studies have focused …