A survey on popularity bias in recommender systems

A Klimashevskaia, D Jannach, M Elahi… - User Modeling and User …, 2024 - Springer
Recommender systems help people find relevant content in a personalized way. One main
promise of such systems is that they are able to increase the visibility of items in the long tail …

Optimal transport for treatment effect estimation

H Wang, J Fan, Z Chen, H Li, W Liu… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating individual treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to
treatment selection bias. Prevalent methods mainly mitigate this issue by aligning different …

ESCM2: entire space counterfactual multi-task model for post-click conversion rate estimation

H Wang, TW Chang, T Liu, J Huang, Z Chen… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Accurate estimation of post-click conversion rate is critical for building recommender
systems, which has long been confronted with sample selection bias and data sparsity …

Re4: Learning to re-contrast, re-attend, re-construct for multi-interest recommendation

S Zhang, L Yang, D Yao, Y Lu, F Feng, Z Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Effectively representing users lie at the core of modern recommender systems. Since users'
interests naturally exhibit multiple aspects, it is of increasing interest to develop multi-interest …

Entire space counterfactual learning for reliable content recommendations

H Wang, Z Chen, Z Liu, H Li, D Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Post-click conversion rate (CVR) estimation is a fundamental task in developing effective
recommender systems, yet it faces challenges from data sparsity and sample selection bias …

Cross pairwise ranking for unbiased item recommendation

Q Wan, X He, X Wang, J Wu, W Guo… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Most recommender systems optimize the model on observed interaction data, which is
affected by the previous exposure mechanism and exhibits many biases like popularity bias …

Causal inference for recommendation: Foundations, methods and applications

S Xu, J Ji, Y Li, Y Ge, J Tan, Y Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04016, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems are important and powerful tools for various personalized services.
Traditionally, these systems use data mining and machine learning techniques to make …

ReCRec: Reasoning the causes of implicit feedback for debiased recommendation

S Lin, S Zhou, J Chen, Y Feng, Q Shi, C Chen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Implicit feedback (eg, user clicks) is widely used in building recommender systems (RS).
However, the inherent notorious exposure bias significantly affects recommendation …

Fighting mainstream bias in recommender systems via local fine tuning

Z Zhu, J Caverlee - Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In collaborative filtering, the quality of recommendations critically relies on how easily a
model can find similar users for a target user. Hence, a niche user who prefers items out of …

Bounding system-induced biases in recommender systems with a randomized dataset

D Liu, P Cheng, Z Lin, X Zhang, Z Dong… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Debiased recommendation with a randomized dataset has shown very promising results in
mitigating system-induced biases. However, it still lacks more theoretical insights or an ideal …