Fast solution to the fair ranking problem using the Sinkhorn algorithm

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Hauptverfasser: Uehara, Yuki, Ikeda, Shunnosuke, Nishimura, Naoki, Ohashi, Koya, Li, Yilin, Yang, Jie, Jobson, Deddy, Zha, Xingxia, Matsumoto, Takeshi, Sukegawa, Noriyoshi, Takano, Yuichi
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author Uehara, Yuki
Ikeda, Shunnosuke
Nishimura, Naoki
Ohashi, Koya
Li, Yilin
Yang, Jie
Jobson, Deddy
Zha, Xingxia
Matsumoto, Takeshi
Sukegawa, Noriyoshi
Takano, Yuichi
author_facet Uehara, Yuki
Ikeda, Shunnosuke
Nishimura, Naoki
Ohashi, Koya
Li, Yilin
Yang, Jie
Jobson, Deddy
Zha, Xingxia
Matsumoto, Takeshi
Sukegawa, Noriyoshi
Takano, Yuichi
contents In two-sided marketplaces such as online flea markets, recommender systems for providing consumers with personalized item rankings play a key role in promoting transactions between providers and consumers. Meanwhile, two-sided marketplaces face the problem of balancing consumer satisfaction and fairness among items to stimulate activity of item providers. Saito and Joachims (2022) devised an impact-based fair ranking method for maximizing the Nash social welfare based on fair division; however, this method, which requires solving a large-scale constrained nonlinear optimization problem, is very difficult to apply to practical-scale recommender systems. We thus propose a fast solution to the impact-based fair ranking problem. We first transform the fair ranking problem into an unconstrained optimization problem and then design a gradient ascent method that repeatedly executes the Sinkhorn algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm provides fair rankings of high quality and is about 1000 times faster than application of commercial optimization software.
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spellingShingle Fast solution to the fair ranking problem using the Sinkhorn algorithm
Uehara, Yuki
Ikeda, Shunnosuke
Nishimura, Naoki
Ohashi, Koya
Li, Yilin
Yang, Jie
Jobson, Deddy
Zha, Xingxia
Matsumoto, Takeshi
Sukegawa, Noriyoshi
Takano, Yuichi
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Optimization and Control
Computation
In two-sided marketplaces such as online flea markets, recommender systems for providing consumers with personalized item rankings play a key role in promoting transactions between providers and consumers. Meanwhile, two-sided marketplaces face the problem of balancing consumer satisfaction and fairness among items to stimulate activity of item providers. Saito and Joachims (2022) devised an impact-based fair ranking method for maximizing the Nash social welfare based on fair division; however, this method, which requires solving a large-scale constrained nonlinear optimization problem, is very difficult to apply to practical-scale recommender systems. We thus propose a fast solution to the impact-based fair ranking problem. We first transform the fair ranking problem into an unconstrained optimization problem and then design a gradient ascent method that repeatedly executes the Sinkhorn algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm provides fair rankings of high quality and is about 1000 times faster than application of commercial optimization software.
title Fast solution to the fair ranking problem using the Sinkhorn algorithm
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Optimization and Control
Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10262