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New method tackles popularity bias in recommender systems

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A new research paper introduces Multinomial Likelihood with Bi-Weighting (Mult-BiW) to address popularity bias in recommender systems. The proposed Mult-IPS framework integrates multinomial likelihood with Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS) to capture unbiased user preferences globally. Additionally, the Bi-Weighting strategy combines propensity scores with a collection model, enhanced by a smoothing mechanism for robust propensity estimation. A Progressive Bi-Weighting approach is also detailed to mitigate representation learning issues caused by aggressive reweighting, with experiments demonstrating its superiority over existing methods. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Jian-Yun Nie ·

    Mitigating Popularity Bias in Recommendation with Global Listwise Learning and Progressive Bi-Weighting

    In recommender systems, user feedback typically follows a long-tail distribution, which leads many recommendation algorithms to exacerbate popularity bias by disproportionately favoring popular items. To mitigate this issue, recent studies have employed Inverse Propensity Scoring…

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