Search Results for author: Masoud Mansoury

Found 22 papers, 5 papers with code

Potential Factors Leading to Popularity Unfairness in Recommender Systems: A User-Centered Analysis

no code implementations4 Oct 2023 Masoud Mansoury, Finn Duijvestijn, Imane Mourabet

Users with different degree of tolerance toward popular items are not fairly served by the recommendation system: users interested in less popular items receive more popular items in their recommendations, while users interested in popular items are recommended what they want.

Movie Recommendation Recommendation Systems

Predictive Uncertainty-based Bias Mitigation in Ranking

1 code implementation18 Sep 2023 Maria Heuss, Daniel Cohen, Masoud Mansoury, Maarten de Rijke, Carsten Eickhoff

Prior work on bias mitigation often assumes that ranking scores, which correspond to the utility that a document holds for a user, can be accurately determined.

Fairness

Fairness of Exposure in Dynamic Recommendation

no code implementations5 Sep 2023 Masoud Mansoury, Bamshad Mobasher

However, less work has been done on addressing exposure bias in a dynamic recommendation setting where the system is operating over time, the recommendation model and the input data are dynamically updated with ongoing user feedback on recommended items at each round.

Exposure Fairness Recommendation Systems

Exposure-Aware Recommendation using Contextual Bandits

no code implementations4 Sep 2022 Masoud Mansoury, Bamshad Mobasher, Herke van Hoof

This is especially problematic when bias is amplified over time as a few items (e. g., popular ones) are repeatedly over-represented in recommendation lists and users' interactions with those items will amplify bias towards those items over time resulting in a feedback loop.

Multi-Armed Bandits Recommendation Systems

Understanding and Mitigating Multi-Sided Exposure Bias in Recommender Systems

no code implementations10 Nov 2021 Masoud Mansoury

The experiments on different publicly-available datasets and comparison with various baselines confirm the superiority of the proposed solutions in improving the exposure fairness for items and suppliers.

Exposure Fairness Recommendation Systems

User-centered Evaluation of Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems

no code implementations10 Mar 2021 Himan Abdollahpouri, Masoud Mansoury, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher, Edward Malthouse

In this paper, we show the limitations of the existing metrics to evaluate popularity bias mitigation when we want to assess these algorithms from the users' perspective and we propose a new metric that can address these limitations.

Recommendation Systems

The Connection Between Popularity Bias, Calibration, and Fairness in Recommendation

no code implementations21 Aug 2020 Himan Abdollahpouri, Masoud Mansoury, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher

Moreover, we show that the more a group is affected by the algorithmic popularity bias, the more their recommendations are miscalibrated.

Fairness Recommendation Systems

Feedback Loop and Bias Amplification in Recommender Systems

no code implementations25 Jul 2020 Masoud Mansoury, Himan Abdollahpouri, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke

Recommendation algorithms are known to suffer from popularity bias; a few popular items are recommended frequently while the majority of other items are ignored.

Recommendation Systems

Addressing the Multistakeholder Impact of Popularity Bias in Recommendation Through Calibration

no code implementations23 Jul 2020 Himan Abdollahpouri, Masoud Mansoury, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher

The effectiveness of these approaches, however, has not been assessed in multistakeholder environments where in addition to the users who receive the recommendations, the utility of the suppliers of the recommended items should also be considered.

Fairness Recommendation Systems

Multi-sided Exposure Bias in Recommendation

1 code implementation29 Jun 2020 Himan Abdollahpouri, Masoud Mansoury

Using several recommendation algorithms and two publicly available datasets in music and movie domains, we empirically show the inherent popularity bias of the algorithms and how this bias impacts different stakeholders such as users and suppliers of the items.

Recommendation Systems

FairMatch: A Graph-based Approach for Improving Aggregate Diversity in Recommender Systems

no code implementations3 May 2020 Masoud Mansoury, Himan Abdollahpouri, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke

That leads to low coverage of items in recommendation lists across users (i. e. low aggregate diversity) and unfair distribution of recommended items.

Fairness Recommendation Systems

Unfair Exposure of Artists in Music Recommendation

no code implementations25 Mar 2020 Himan Abdollahpouri, Robin Burke, Masoud Mansoury

It is well-known that the recommendation algorithms suffer from popularity bias; few popular items are over-recommended which leads to the majority of other items not getting proportionate attention.

Fairness Music Recommendation +1

Investigating Potential Factors Associated with Gender Discrimination in Collaborative Recommender Systems

no code implementations18 Feb 2020 Masoud Mansoury, Himan Abdollahpouri, Jessie Smith, Arman Dehpanah, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Bamshad Mobasher

The proliferation of personalized recommendation technologies has raised concerns about discrepancies in their recommendation performance across different genders, age groups, and racial or ethnic populations.

Fairness Recommendation Systems

The Relationship between the Consistency of Users' Ratings and Recommendation Calibration

no code implementations3 Nov 2019 Masoud Mansoury, Himan Abdollahpouri, Joris Rombouts, Mykola Pechenizkiy

In this paper, we aim to explore the relationship between the consistency of users' ratings behavior and the degree of calibrated recommendations they receive.

Fairness Recommendation Systems

The Impact of Popularity Bias on Fairness and Calibration in Recommendation

no code implementations13 Oct 2019 Himan Abdollahpouri, Masoud Mansoury, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher

In this paper, we use a metric called miscalibration for measuring how a recommendation algorithm is responsive to users' true preferences and we consider how various algorithms may result in different degrees of miscalibration.

Fairness Recommendation Systems

The Unfairness of Popularity Bias in Recommendation

3 code implementations31 Jul 2019 Himan Abdollahpouri, Masoud Mansoury, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher

Recommender systems are known to suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular (i. e. frequently rated) items get a lot of exposure while less popular ones are under-represented in the recommendations.

Recommendation Systems

Flatter is better: Percentile Transformations for Recommender Systems

no code implementations10 Jul 2019 Masoud Mansoury, Robin Burke, Bamshad Mobasher

This transformation flattens the rating distribution, better compensates for differences in rating distributions, and improves recommendation performance.

Recommendation Systems

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