Journal
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
Volume 125, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109126
Keywords
Fairness representation; Recommender systems; Self-supervised learning
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [62076046, 61976036, 62006034, 61772103]
- Major Science and Technology Projects of Yunnan Province, China [202002ab080001-1]
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In this paper, the authors propose a group rank fair recommender (GRFRec) method to address the issue of unfair recommendations caused by data bias in recommender systems. Through self-supervised learning and adversarial learning, the GRFRec algorithm enhances user representation and eliminates group-specific information to achieve fairness and improve recommendation accuracy.
Data-driven recommender algorithms are widely used in many systems, such as e-commerce recommender systems and movie recommendation systems. However, these systems could be affected by data bias, which leads to unfair recommendations for different groups of users. To address this problem, we propose a group rank fair recommender (GRFRec) method to mitigate the unfairness of recommender algorithms. We design a self-supervised learning framework to enhance user representation from both global and local views for fair results. In addition, adversarial learning is introduced to eliminate group-specific information and results in an unbiased user-item representation space, which avoids some groups suffering from unfair treatment in recommender results. Experimental results on three real-world datasets demonstrate that GRFRec can not only significantly improve fairness but also attain better results on the recommendation accuracy. (C) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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