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Equal Experience in Recommender Systems

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05936v1
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 05:53:05 GMT
Title: Equal Experience in Recommender Systems
Authors: Jaewoong Cho, Moonseok Choi, Changho Suh
Abstract summary: We introduce a novel fairness notion (that we call equal experience) to regulate unfairness in the presence of biased data. We propose an optimization framework that incorporates the fairness notion as a regularization term, as well as introduce computationally-efficient algorithms that solve the optimization.
Score: 21.298427869586686
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: We explore the fairness issue that arises in recommender systems. Biased data due to inherent stereotypes of particular groups (e.g., male students' average rating on mathematics is often higher than that on humanities, and vice versa for females) may yield a limited scope of suggested items to a certain group of users. Our main contribution lies in the introduction of a novel fairness notion (that we call equal experience), which can serve to regulate such unfairness in the presence of biased data. The notion captures the degree of the equal experience of item recommendations across distinct groups. We propose an optimization framework that incorporates the fairness notion as a regularization term, as well as introduce computationally-efficient algorithms that solve the optimization. Experiments on synthetic and benchmark real datasets demonstrate that the proposed framework can indeed mitigate such unfairness while exhibiting a minor degradation of recommendation accuracy.

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