Filter bubbles in recommender systems: Fact or fallacy—A systematic review

QM Areeb, M Nadeem, SS Sohail… - … : Data Mining and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A filter bubble refers to the phenomenon where Internet customization effectively isolates
individuals from diverse opinions or materials, resulting in their exposure to only a select set …

CIRS: Bursting filter bubbles by counterfactual interactive recommender system

C Gao, S Wang, S Li, J Chen, X He, W Lei, B Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While personalization increases the utility of recommender systems, it also brings the issue
of filter bubbles. eg, if the system keeps exposing and recommending the items that the user …

User-controllable recommendation against filter bubbles

W Wang, F Feng, L Nie, TS Chua - … of the 45th international ACM SIGIR …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems usually face the issue of filter bubbles: over-recommending
homogeneous items based on user features and historical interactions. Filter bubbles will …

Horizontal Federated Recommender System: A Survey

L Wang, H Zhou, Y Bao, X Yan, G Shen… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Due to underlying privacy-sensitive information in user-item interaction data, the risk of
privacy leakage exists in the centralized-training recommender system (RecSys). To this …

Facial expression-enhanced recommendation for virtual fitting rooms

Y Xue, J Sun, Y Liu, X Li, K Yuan - Decision Support Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
With the development of Augmented Reality (AR) technology in the retail industry, virtual
fitting room (VFR) are considered promising enhancement of e-commerce by providing …

GS-RS: A Generative Approach for Alleviating Cold start and Filter bubbles in Recommender Systems

Y Xu, E Wang, Y Yang, H Xiong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recommender Systems (RSs) typically face the cold-start problem and the filter-bubble
problem when users suffer the familiar, repeated, and even predictable recommendations …

Understanding the contribution of recommendation algorithms on misinformation recommendation and misinformation dissemination on social networks

R Pathak, F Spezzano, MS Pera - ACM Transactions on the Web, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social networks are a platform for individuals and organizations to connect with each other
and inform, advertise, spread ideas, and ultimately influence opinions. These platforms have …

Friend recommendations with self-rescaling graph neural networks

X Song, J Lian, H Huang, M Wu, H Jin… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Friend recommendation service plays an important role in shaping and facilitating the
growth of online social networks. Graph embedding models, which can learn low …

Workplace Recommendation with Temporal Network Objectives

K Tomlinson, J Neville, L Yang, M Wan… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Workplace communication software such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Google Workspace
have become integral to workplace collaboration, especially due to the rise of remote work …

Mitigating Filter Bubbles Under a Competitive Diffusion Model

P Banerjee, W Chen, LVS Lakshmanan - … of the ACM on Management of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While social networks greatly facilitate information dissemination, they are well known to
have contributed to the phenomena of filter bubbles and echo chambers. This in turn can …