FairEval: Evaluating Fairness in LLM-Based Recommendations with Personality Awareness

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Auteurs principaux: Sah, Chandan Kumar, Lian, Xiaoli, Xu, Tony, Zhang, Li
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author Sah, Chandan Kumar
Lian, Xiaoli
Xu, Tony
Zhang, Li
author_facet Sah, Chandan Kumar
Lian, Xiaoli
Xu, Tony
Zhang, Li
contents Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled their application to recommender systems (RecLLMs), yet concerns remain regarding fairness across demographic and psychological user dimensions. We introduce FairEval, a novel evaluation framework to systematically assess fairness in LLM-based recommendations. FairEval integrates personality traits with eight sensitive demographic attributes,including gender, race, and age, enabling a comprehensive assessment of user-level bias. We evaluate models, including ChatGPT 4o and Gemini 1.5 Flash, on music and movie recommendations. FairEval's fairness metric, PAFS, achieves scores up to 0.9969 for ChatGPT 4o and 0.9997 for Gemini 1.5 Flash, with disparities reaching 34.79 percent. These results highlight the importance of robustness in prompt sensitivity and support more inclusive recommendation systems.
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spellingShingle FairEval: Evaluating Fairness in LLM-Based Recommendations with Personality Awareness
Sah, Chandan Kumar
Lian, Xiaoli
Xu, Tony
Zhang, Li
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled their application to recommender systems (RecLLMs), yet concerns remain regarding fairness across demographic and psychological user dimensions. We introduce FairEval, a novel evaluation framework to systematically assess fairness in LLM-based recommendations. FairEval integrates personality traits with eight sensitive demographic attributes,including gender, race, and age, enabling a comprehensive assessment of user-level bias. We evaluate models, including ChatGPT 4o and Gemini 1.5 Flash, on music and movie recommendations. FairEval's fairness metric, PAFS, achieves scores up to 0.9969 for ChatGPT 4o and 0.9997 for Gemini 1.5 Flash, with disparities reaching 34.79 percent. These results highlight the importance of robustness in prompt sensitivity and support more inclusive recommendation systems.
title FairEval: Evaluating Fairness in LLM-Based Recommendations with Personality Awareness
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07801