An Adaptive Boosting Technique to Mitigate Popularity Bias in Recommender System
Ajay Gangwar,
Shweta Jain
Abstract:The observed ratings in most recommender systems are subjected to popularity bias and are thus not randomly missing. Due to this, only a few popular items are recommended, and a vast number of non-popular items are hardly recommended. Not suggesting the non-popular items lead to fewer products dominating the market and thus offering fewer opportunities for creativity and innovation. In the literature, several fair algorithms have been proposed which mainly focused on improving the accuracy of the recommendatio… Show more
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