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Fairness and Diversity in Social-Based Recommender Systems

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Dimitris Sacharidis,

Carine Pierrette Mukamakuza,

Hannes WerthnerAuthors Info & Claims

UMAP '20 Adjunct: Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Pages 83 - 88

https://doi.org/10.1145/3386392.3397603

Published: 13 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

In social networks, the phenomena of homophily and influence explain the fact that friends tend to be similar. Social-based recommenders exploit this observation by incorporating the social structure in collaborative filtering techniques. In practice, these recommenders tend to make friends appear more similar compared to non-socially aware techniques. Various proposals have demonstrated the benefit of incorporating social connections. But at what cost? In this work, we show that there exist users that are mistreated in social recommenders. Specifically, their individual preferences are suppressed more compared to other users in their social circle. We seek to identify who they are and develop techniques that protect them, without severely affecting the effectiveness of the recommender.

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DOI:10.1145/3386392

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