Invariant preference learning for general debiasing in recommendation

Z Wang, Y He, J Liu, W Zou, PS Yu, P Cui - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Current recommender systems have achieved great successes in online services, such as E-
commerce and social media. However, they still suffer from the performance degradation in …

AutoDebias: Learning to debias for recommendation

J Chen, H Dong, Y Qiu, X He, X Xin, 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 …

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

H Li, K Wu, C Zheng, Y Xiao, H Wang… - Advances in …, 2024 - 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 …

Debiasing recommendation by learning identifiable latent confounders

Q Zhang, X Zhang, Y Liu, H Wang, M Gao… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation systems aim to predict users' feedback on items not exposed to them yet.
Confounding bias arises due to the presence of unmeasured variables (eg, the socio …

Representation matters when learning from biased feedback in recommendation

T Xiao, Z Chen, S Wang - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The logged feedback for training recommender systems is usually subject to selection bias,
which could not reflect real user preference. Thus, many efforts have been made to learn the …

Mitigating popularity bias in recommendation with unbalanced interactions: A gradient perspective

W Ren, L Wang, K Liu, R Guo… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recommender systems learn from historical user-item interactions to identify preferred items
for target users. These observed interactions are usually unbalanced following a long-tailed …

Bias disparity in recommendation systems

V Tsintzou, E Pitoura, P Tsaparas - arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01461, 2018 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems have been applied successfully in a number of different domains,
such as, entertainment, commerce, and employment. Their success lies in their ability to …

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 …

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 …

Combating selection biases in recommender systems with a few unbiased ratings

X Wang, R Zhang, Y Sun, J Qi - … Conference on Web Search and Data …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation datasets are prone to selection biases due to self-selection behavior of
users and item selection process of systems. This makes explicitly combating selection …