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 …

Addressing unmeasured confounder for recommendation with sensitivity analysis

S Ding, P Wu, F Feng, Y Wang, X He, Y Liao… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems should answer the intervention question" if recommending an item
to a user, what would the feedback be", calling for estimating the causal effect of a …

Mitigating confounding bias in recommendation via information bottleneck

D Liu, P Cheng, H Zhu, Z Dong, X He, W Pan… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
How to effectively mitigate the bias of feedback in recommender systems is an important
research topic. In this paper, we first describe the generation process of the biased and …

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 …

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 …

Balancing unobserved confounding with a few unbiased ratings in debiased recommendations

H Li, Y Xiao, C Zheng, P Wu - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are seen as an effective tool to address information overload, but it
is widely known that the presence of various biases makes direct training on large-scale …

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 …

Denoising implicit feedback for recommendation

W Wang, F Feng, X He, L Nie, TS Chua - Proceedings of the 14th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The ubiquity of implicit feedback makes them the default choice to build online
recommender systems. While the large volume of implicit feedback alleviates the data …