A Cost-Sensitive Meta-Learning Strategy for Fair Provider Exposure in Recommendation

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Hauptverfasser: Boratto, Ludovico, Cerniglia, Giulia, Marras, Mirko, Perniciano, Alessandra, Pes, Barbara
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Boratto, Ludovico
Cerniglia, Giulia
Marras, Mirko
Perniciano, Alessandra
Pes, Barbara
author_facet Boratto, Ludovico
Cerniglia, Giulia
Marras, Mirko
Perniciano, Alessandra
Pes, Barbara
contents When devising recommendation services, it is important to account for the interests of all content providers, encompassing not only newcomers but also minority demographic groups. In various instances, certain provider groups find themselves underrepresented in the item catalog, a situation that can influence recommendation results. Hence, platform owners often seek to regulate the exposure of these provider groups in the recommended lists. In this paper, we propose a novel cost-sensitive approach designed to guarantee these target exposure levels in pairwise recommendation models. This approach quantifies, and consequently mitigate, the discrepancies between the volume of recommendations allocated to groups and their contribution in the item catalog, under the principle of equity. Our results show that this approach, while aligning groups exposure with their assigned levels, does not compromise to the original recommendation utility. Source code and pre-processed data can be retrieved at https://github.com/alessandraperniciano/meta-learning-strategy-fair-provider-exposure.
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spellingShingle A Cost-Sensitive Meta-Learning Strategy for Fair Provider Exposure in Recommendation
Boratto, Ludovico
Cerniglia, Giulia
Marras, Mirko
Perniciano, Alessandra
Pes, Barbara
Information Retrieval
When devising recommendation services, it is important to account for the interests of all content providers, encompassing not only newcomers but also minority demographic groups. In various instances, certain provider groups find themselves underrepresented in the item catalog, a situation that can influence recommendation results. Hence, platform owners often seek to regulate the exposure of these provider groups in the recommended lists. In this paper, we propose a novel cost-sensitive approach designed to guarantee these target exposure levels in pairwise recommendation models. This approach quantifies, and consequently mitigate, the discrepancies between the volume of recommendations allocated to groups and their contribution in the item catalog, under the principle of equity. Our results show that this approach, while aligning groups exposure with their assigned levels, does not compromise to the original recommendation utility. Source code and pre-processed data can be retrieved at https://github.com/alessandraperniciano/meta-learning-strategy-fair-provider-exposure.
title A Cost-Sensitive Meta-Learning Strategy for Fair Provider Exposure in Recommendation
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13566