Fair ranking: a critical review, challenges, and future directions

GK Patro, L Porcaro, L Mitchell, Q Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Ranking, recommendation, and retrieval systems are widely used in online platforms and
other societal systems, including e-commerce, media-streaming, admissions, gig platforms …

How Bad is Top- Recommendation under Competing Content Creators?

F Yao, C Li, D Nekipelov, H Wang… - … on Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This study explores the impact of content creators' competition on user welfare in
recommendation platforms, as well as the long-term dynamics of relevance-driven …

Modeling content creator incentives on algorithm-curated platforms

J Hron, K Krauth, MI Jordan, N Kilbertus… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Content creators compete for user attention. Their reach crucially depends on algorithmic
choices made by developers on online platforms. To maximize exposure, many creators …

Rethinking search engines and recommendation systems: a game theoretic perspective

M Tennenholtz, O Kurland - Communications of the ACM, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Rethinking search engines and recommendation systems: a game theoretic perspective
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Are neural ranking models robust?

C Wu, R Zhang, J Guo, Y Fan, X Cheng - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recently, we have witnessed the bloom of neural ranking models in the information retrieval
(IR) field. So far, much effort has been devoted to developing effective neural ranking …

A game-theoretic approach to recommendation systems with strategic content providers

O Ben-Porat, M Tennenholtz - Advances in Neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We introduce a game-theoretic approach to the study of recommendation systems with
strategic content providers. Such systems should be fair and stable. Showing that traditional …

Competitive search

O Kurland, M Tennenholtz - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The Web is a canonical example of a competitive search setting that includes document
authors with ranking incentives: their goal is to promote their documents in rankings induced …

Robust neural information retrieval: An adversarial and out-of-distribution perspective

YA Liu, R Zhang, J Guo, M de Rijke, Y Fan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in neural information retrieval (IR) models have significantly enhanced
their effectiveness over various IR tasks. The robustness of these models, essential for …

Towards Imperceptible Document Manipulations against Neural Ranking Models

X Chen, B He, Z Ye, L Sun, Y Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01860, 2023 - arxiv.org
Adversarial attacks have gained traction in order to identify potential vulnerabilities in neural
ranking models (NRMs), but current attack methods often introduce grammatical errors …

Dealing with textual noise for robust and effective BERT re-ranking

X Chen, B He, K Hui, L Sun, Y Sun - Information Processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pre-trained language models (PLMs), such as BERT, have been successfully employed
in two-phases ranking pipeline for information retrieval (IR). Meanwhile, recent studies have …