Bias characterization, assessment, and mitigation in location-based recommender systems
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UAM. Departamento de Ingeniería InformáticaPublisher
SpringerDate
2023-02-14Citation
10.1007/s10618-022-00913-5
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2023): 1-45
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1384-5810 (print); 1573-756X (online)DOI
10.1007/s10618-022-00913-5Funded by
Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This work has been funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (reference PID2019-108965GB-I00) and by the European Social Fund (ESF), within the 2017 call for predoctoral contractsProject
Gobierno de España. PID2019-108965GB-I00Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-022-00913-5Subjects
Bias mitigation; POI recommendation; Polarization; Temporal evaluation; InformáticaNote
The version of record of this article, first published in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery , is available online at Publisher’s website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10618-022-00913-5Rights
© The Author (s) 2023Abstract
Location-Based Social Networks stimulated the rise of services such as Location-based Recommender Systems. These systems suggest to users points of interest (or venues) to visit when they arrive in a specific city or region. These recommendations impact various stakeholders in society, like the users who receive the recommendations and venue owners. Hence, if a recommender generates biased or polarized results, this affects in tangible ways both the experience of the users and the providers’ activities. In this paper, we focus on four forms of polarization, namely venue popularity, category popularity, venue exposure, and geographical distance. We characterize them on different families of recommendation algorithms when using a realistic (temporal-aware) offline evaluation methodology while assessing their existence. Besides, we propose two automatic approaches to mitigate those biases. Experimental results on real-world data show that these approaches are able to jointly improve the recommendation effectiveness, while alleviating these multiple polarizations
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Google Scholar:Sánchez Olivares, Pablo
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Bellogin Kouki, Alejandro
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Boratto, Ludovico
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