Exploring potential biases towards blockbuster items in ranking-based recommendations

E Yalcin - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022 - Springer
Popularity bias is defined as the intrinsic tendency of recommendation algorithms to feature
popular items more than unpopular ones in the ranked lists lists they produced. When …

The unfairness of popularity bias in recommendation

H Abdollahpouri, M Mansoury, R Burke… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems are known to suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular (ie
frequently rated) items get a lot of exposure while less popular ones are under-represented …

[HTML][HTML] Treating adverse effects of blockbuster bias on beyond-accuracy quality of personalized recommendations

E Yalcin, A Bilge - Engineering Science and Technology, an International …, 2022 - Elsevier
Collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms are vulnerable against the popularity
bias, including the most popular items repeatedly into the produced ranked lists. However …

The unfairness of popularity bias in book recommendation

M Naghiaei, HA Rahmani, M Dehghan - … on Algorithmic Bias in Search and …, 2022 - Springer
Recent studies have shown that recommendation systems commonly suffer from popularity
bias. Popularity bias refers to the problem that popular items (ie, frequently rated items) are …

Novel approaches to measuring the popularity inclination of users for the popularity bias problem

Y Tacli, E Yalcin, A Bilge - 2022 International Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An efficient approach to handling the well-known popularity bias in recommendations is
treating this issue by considering users' actual propensities on item popularity. This way, the …

Popularity bias in recommender systems-a review

AB Ahanger, SW Aalam, MR Bhat, A Assad - International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
With the advancement in recommendation techniques, focus is diverted from just making
them more accurate to making them fairer and diverse, thus catering to the set of less …

An adaptive boosting technique to mitigate popularity bias in recommender system

A Gangwar, S Jain - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.05677, 2021 - arxiv.org
The observed ratings in most recommender systems are subjected to popularity bias and
are thus not randomly missing. Due to this, only a few popular items are recommended, and …

Blockbuster: A new perspective on popularity-bias in recommender systems

E Yalcin - 2021 6th International Conference on Computer …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative filtering algorithms unwittingly produce ranked lists where a few popular items
are recommended too frequently while the remaining vast amount of items get not deserved …

Multi-sided exposure bias in recommendation

H Abdollahpouri, M Mansoury - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.15772, 2020 - arxiv.org
Academic research in recommender systems has been greatly focusing on the accuracy-
related measures of recommendations. Even when non-accuracy measures such as …

Addressing the multistakeholder impact of popularity bias in recommendation through calibration

H Abdollahpouri, M Mansoury, R Burke… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Popularity bias is a well-known phenomenon in recommender systems: popular items are
recommended even more frequently than their popularity would warrant, amplifying long-tail …