Causal inference in recommender systems: A survey and future directions

C Gao, Y Zheng, W Wang, F Feng, X He… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have become crucial in information filtering nowadays. Existing
recommender systems extract user preferences based on the correlation in data, such as …

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 …

Invariant representation learning for multimedia recommendation

X Du, Z Wu, F Feng, X He, J Tang - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Multimedia recommendation forms a personalized ranking task with multimedia content
representations which are mostly extracted via generic encoders. However, the generic …

Deconfounded causal collaborative filtering

S Xu, J Tan, S Heinecke, VJ Li, Y Zhang - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems may be confounded by various types of confounding factors (also
called confounders) that may lead to inaccurate recommendations and sacrificed …

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 …

Causal inference for recommendation: Foundations, methods and applications

S Xu, J Ji, Y Li, Y Ge, J Tan, Y Zhang - ACM Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are important and powerful tools for various personalized services.
Traditionally, these systems use data mining and machine learning techniques to make …

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 …

Causal inference in recommender systems: A survey of strategies for bias mitigation, explanation, and generalization

Y Zhu, J Ma, J Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.00910, 2023 - arxiv.org
In the era of information overload, recommender systems (RSs) have become an
indispensable part of online service platforms. Traditional RSs estimate user interests and …

CausalPC: Improving the Robustness of Point Cloud Classification by Causal Effect Identification

Y Huang, M Zhang, D Ding, E Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance in point cloud
classification. However previous works show they are vulnerable to adversarial …

Towards a causal decision-making framework for recommender systems

E Cavenaghi, A Zanga, F Stella, M Zanker - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Causality is gaining more and more attention in the machine learning community and
consequently also in recommender systems research. The limitations of learning offline from …