Fair ranking with noisy protected attributes

A Mehrotra, N Vishnoi - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The fair-ranking problem, which asks to rank a given set of items to maximize utility subject
to group fairness constraints, has received attention in the fairness, information retrieval, and …

Querywise fair learning to rank through multi-objective optimization

D Mahapatra, C Dong, M Momma - Proceedings of the 29th ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In Learning-to-Rank (LTR) problems, the task of delivering relevant search results and
allocating fair exposure to items of a protected group can conflict. Previous works in Fair LTR …

Curse of" low" dimensionality in recommender systems

N Ohsaka, R Togashi - Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Beyond accuracy, there are a variety of aspects to the quality of recommender systems, such
as diversity, fairness, and robustness. We argue that many of the prevalent problems in …

Scalable and Provably Fair Exposure Control for Large-Scale Recommender Systems

R Togashi, K Abe, Y Saito - Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Typical recommendation and ranking methods aim to optimize the satisfaction of users, but
they are often oblivious to their impact on the items (eg, products, jobs, news, video) and …

Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures

B Mitra - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17901, 2024 - arxiv.org
Information retrieval (IR) technologies and research are undergoing transformative changes.
It is our perspective that the community should accept this opportunity to re-center our …

The Pursuit of Fairness in Artificial Intelligence Models: A Survey

TA Kheya, MR Bouadjenek, S Aryal - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17333, 2024 - arxiv.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are now being utilized in all facets of our lives such as
healthcare, education and employment. Since they are used in numerous sensitive …

Sampling individually-fair rankings that are always group fair

S Gorantla, A Mehrotra, A Deshpande… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Rankings on online platforms help their end-users find the relevant information—people,
news, media, and products—quickly. Fair ranking tasks, which ask to rank a set of items to …

Fair matrix factorisation for large-scale recommender systems

R Togashi, K Abe - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04394, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems are hedged with various requirements, such as ranking quality,
optimisation efficiency, and item fairness. Item fairness is an emerging yet impending issue …

[PDF][PDF] FairRankTune: A User-Friendly Toolkit Supporting Fair Ranking Tasks

K CACHEL, E RUNDENSTEINER - 2023 - conference2023.eaamo.org
As this impactful area grows, a substantial obstacle faced by researchers is the unavailability
of rich fairness-relevant ranked data [36, 47, 70]. This is in part due to the challenge of …

Sampling ex-post group-fair rankings

S Gorantla, A Deshpande, A Louis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00887, 2022 - arxiv.org
Randomized rankings have been of recent interest to achieve ex-ante fairer exposure and
better robustness than deterministic rankings. We propose a set of natural axioms for …