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ConAlign framework balances biased and unbiased recommendations for Kuaishou

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Researchers have developed ConAlign, a conditional alignment framework designed to balance biased and unbiased recommendation systems for industrial use. This approach uses a discrete gating mechanism to selectively transfer knowledge from a biased system to an unbiased one, aiming to maintain factual accuracy while improving unbiased preference estimation. ConAlign has been successfully deployed in a large-scale recommendation system at Kuaishou, demonstrating improvements in long-term user engagement and interest diversity with minimal latency. AI

IMPACT This framework offers a practical solution for improving recommendation systems by mitigating bias, potentially leading to better user engagement and diversity in online platforms.

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ConAlign framework balances biased and unbiased recommendations for Kuaishou

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Liyin Hong ·

    ConAlign: Conditional Alignment Framework for Balancing Biased and Unbiased Recommendation

    Industry recommender systems trained on observational data suffer from various biases that create filter bubbles, causing user interests to collapse into narrow categories and severely degrading long-term engagement. While utilizing unbiased uniform data for debiasing has shown p…

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