Be causal: De-biasing social network confounding in recommendation

Q Li, X Wang, Z Wang, G Xu - ACM Transactions on Knowledge …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In recommendation systems, the existence of the missing-not-at-random (MNAR) problem
results in the selection bias issue, degrading the recommendation performance ultimately. A …

A modular adversarial approach to social recommendation

A Krishnan, H Cheruvu, C Tao… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes a novel framework to incorporate social regularization for item
recommendation. Social regularization grounded in ideas of homophily and influence …

Deconfounded recommendation via causal intervention

D Yu, Q Li, X Wang, G Xu - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional recommenders suffer from hidden confounding factors, leading to the spurious
correlations between user/item profiles and user preference prediction, ie, the confounding …

Denoised self-augmented learning for social recommendation

T Wang, L Xia, C Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12685, 2023 - arxiv.org
Social recommendation is gaining increasing attention in various online applications,
including e-commerce and online streaming, where social information is leveraged to …

Uniwalk: Explainable and accurate recommendation for rating and network data

H Park, H Jeon, J Kim, B Ahn, U Kang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07134, 2017 - arxiv.org
How can we leverage social network data and observed ratings to correctly recommend
proper items and provide a persuasive explanation for the recommendations? Many online …

Social boosted recommendation with folded bipartite network embedding

H Chen, H Yin, T Chen, W Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the prevalence of online social platforms, social recommendation has emerged as a
promising direction that leverages the social network among users to enhance …

Disentangling user interest and conformity for recommendation with causal embedding

Y Zheng, C Gao, X Li, X He, Y Li, D Jin - Proceedings of the Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation models are usually trained on observational interaction data. However,
observational interaction data could result from users' conformity towards popular items …

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 …

Modelling high-order social relations for item recommendation

Y Liu, L Chen, X He, J Peng, Z Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prevalence of online social network makes it compulsory to study how social relations
affect user choice. However, most existing methods leverage only first-order social relations …

Socialgcn: An efficient graph convolutional network based model for social recommendation

L Wu, P Sun, R Hong, Y Fu, X Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most successful approaches for recommender
systems. With the emergence of online social networks, social recommendation has become …