Autor: |
Alvaro Gonzalez, Fernando Ortega, Diego Perez-Lopez, Santiago Alonso |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2022 |
Předmět: |
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Zdroj: |
IEEE Access, Vol 10, Pp 68429-68439 (2022) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2169-3536 |
DOI: |
10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3186719 |
Popis: |
Recommender Systems have become one of the most important tools for streaming and marketplace systems in recent years. Their increased use has revealed clear bias and unfairness against minorities and underrepresented groups. This paper seeks the origin of these biases and unfairness. To this end, it analyzes the demographic characteristics of a gold standard dataset and its prediction performance when used in a multitude of Recommender Systems. In addition, this paper proposes Soft Matrix Factorization (SoftMF), which tries to balance the predictions of different types of users to reduce the present inequality. The experimental results show that those biases and unfairness are not introduced by the different recommendation models and that they come from the socio-psychological and demographic characteristics of the used dataset. |
Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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