Evaluating recommender systems: survey and framework

E Zangerle, C Bauer - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The comprehensive evaluation of the performance of a recommender system is a complex
endeavor: many facets need to be considered in configuring an adequate and effective …

Fairness in music recommender systems: A stakeholder-centered mini review

K Dinnissen, C Bauer - Frontiers in big Data, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The performance of recommender systems highly impacts both music streaming platform
users and the artists providing music. As fairness is a fundamental value of human life, there …

Analyzing item popularity bias of music recommender systems: are different genders equally affected?

O Lesota, A Melchiorre, N Rekabsaz, S Brandl… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Several studies have identified discrepancies between the popularity of items in user
profiles and the corresponding recommendation lists. Such behavior, which concerns a …

LFM-2b: A dataset of enriched music listening events for recommender systems research and fairness analysis

M Schedl, S Brandl, O Lesota… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present the LFM-2b dataset containing the listening records of over 120,000 users of the
music platform Last. fm. These users provide a total of more than two billion individual …

Amplifying artists' voices: Item provider perspectives on influence and fairness of music streaming platforms

K Dinnissen, C Bauer - Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The majority of music consumption nowadays takes place on music streaming platforms.
Whichever artists, albums, or songs are exposed to consumers on these platforms therefore …

Calibrated recommendations as a minimum-cost flow problem

H Abdollahpouri, Z Nazari, A Gain, C Gibson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Calibration in recommender systems has recently gained significant attention. In the
recommended list of items, calibration ensures that the various (past) areas of interest of a …

Popularity bias in collaborative filtering-based multimedia recommender systems

D Kowald, E Lacic - International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search …, 2022 - Springer
Multimedia recommender systems suggest media items, eg, songs,(digital) books and
movies, to users by utilizing concepts of traditional recommender systems such as …

A study on accuracy, miscalibration, and popularity bias in recommendations

D Kowald, G Mayr, M Schedl, E Lex - … on Algorithmic Bias in Search and …, 2023 - Springer
Recent research has suggested different metrics to measure the inconsistency of
recommendation performance, including the accuracy difference between user groups …

Perceptions of the 'mainstream'and the mainstreaming of the far right: from Ed Sheeran to Keir Starmer

K Brown - Journal of Political Ideologies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While people use the term 'mainstream'on a regular basis, there has been relatively little
discussion about what it actually means. Within far-right studies, attempts to define the …

Novel datasets for evaluating song popularity prediction tasks

M Vötter, M Mayerl, G Specht… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimating the success of a song before its release is an important music industry task.
Current work uses audio descriptors to predict the success (popularity) of a song, where …