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Main Authors: Li, Runze, Heitz, Lucien, Inel, Oana, Bernstein, Abraham
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13035
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author Li, Runze
Heitz, Lucien
Inel, Oana
Bernstein, Abraham
author_facet Li, Runze
Heitz, Lucien
Inel, Oana
Bernstein, Abraham
contents This paper introduces Diversity-Driven RandomWalks (D-RDW), a lightweight algorithm and re-ranking technique that generates diverse news recommendations. D-RDW is a societal recommender, which combines the diversification capabilities of the traditional random walk algorithms with customizable target distributions of news article properties. In doing so, our model provides a transparent approach for editors to incorporate norms and values into the recommendation process. D-RDW shows enhanced performance across key diversity metrics that consider the articles' sentiment and political party mentions when compared to state-of-the-art neural models. Furthermore, D-RDW proves to be more computationally efficient than existing approaches.
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spellingShingle D-RDW: Diversity-Driven Random Walks for News Recommender Systems
Li, Runze
Heitz, Lucien
Inel, Oana
Bernstein, Abraham
Information Retrieval
This paper introduces Diversity-Driven RandomWalks (D-RDW), a lightweight algorithm and re-ranking technique that generates diverse news recommendations. D-RDW is a societal recommender, which combines the diversification capabilities of the traditional random walk algorithms with customizable target distributions of news article properties. In doing so, our model provides a transparent approach for editors to incorporate norms and values into the recommendation process. D-RDW shows enhanced performance across key diversity metrics that consider the articles' sentiment and political party mentions when compared to state-of-the-art neural models. Furthermore, D-RDW proves to be more computationally efficient than existing approaches.
title D-RDW: Diversity-Driven Random Walks for News Recommender Systems
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13035