A survey on causal inference for recommendation

H Luo, F Zhuang, R Xie, 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

DDPO: Direct Dual Propensity Optimization for Post-Click Conversion Rate Estimation

H Su, L Meng, L Zhu, K Lu, J Li - … of the 47th International ACM SIGIR …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In online advertising, the sample selection bias problem is a major cause of inaccurate
conversion rate estimates. Current mainstream solutions only perform causality-based …

Meta doubly robust: Debiasing CVR prediction via meta-learning with a small amount of unbiased data

P Li, X Tong, Y Wang, Q Zhang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025 - Elsevier
Postclick conversion rate (CVR) prediction is an essential task for e-commerce domains, but
it is affected by selection bias. Some existing research has attempted to reduce selection …

Adversarial-Enhanced Causal Multi-Task Framework for Debiasing Post-Click Conversion Rate Estimation

X Zhang, C Huang, K Zheng, H Su, T Ji… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In real-world industrial scenarios, post-click conversion rate (CVR) prediction models are
trained offline based on click events and subsequently applied online to both clicked and …

Uncertainty calibration for counterfactual propensity estimation in recommendation

W Hu, X Sun, L Wu, L Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12973, 2023 - arxiv.org
Post-click conversion rate (CVR) is a reliable indicator of online customers' preferences,
making it crucial for developing recommender systems. A major challenge in predicting CVR …

Calibrating Multiple Robust Learning for Causal Recommendation

S Gong, C Ma - AAAI 2025 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with …, 2025 - openreview.net
Recommendation systems (RS) has become integral to numerous applications, ranging
from e-commerce to content streaming. A critical problem in RS is that the ratings are …