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20202026
most citedDebiased Explainable Pairwise Ranking from Implicit Feedback

22 citations · 35 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.AI2026

Agentic ML Exploration (A-MLE) for Ads Ranking

Erwin Gao, Vinodh Kumar Sunkara, Jingyi Guan +36

Modern industrial ads ranking stacks are increasingly bottlenecked not by model capacity or training compute, but by the throughput of human ML iteration - the cycles of research,…

cs.LG2023★ 10 cited

Debiasing the Cloze Task in Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Transformers

Khalil Damak, Sami Khenissi, Olfa Nasraoui

Bidirectional Transformer architectures are state-of-the-art sequential recommendation models that use a bi-directional representation capacity based on the Cloze task, a.k.a. Mask…

cs.IR2021★ 22 cited

Debiased Explainable Pairwise Ranking from Implicit Feedback

Khalil Damak, Sami Khenissi, Olfa Nasraoui

Recent work in recommender systems has emphasized the importance of fairness, with a particular interest in bias and transparency, in addition to predictive accuracy. In this paper…

cs.IR2020

Theoretical Modeling of the Iterative Properties of User Discovery in a Collaborative Filtering Recommender System

Sami Khenissi, Mariem Boujelbene, Olfa Nasraoui

The closed feedback loop in recommender systems is a common setting that can lead to different types of biases. Several studies have dealt with these biases by designing methods to…

cs.IR2020★ 3 cited

Modeling and Counteracting Exposure Bias in Recommender Systems

Sami Khenissi, Olfa Nasraoui

What we discover and see online, and consequently our opinions and decisions, are becoming increasingly affected by automated machine learned predictions. Similarly, the predictive…