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most citedFrom Clicks to Carbon: The Environmental Toll of Recommender Systems

39 citations · 48 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.IR2026

Ensembles at Any Cost? Accuracy-Energy Trade-offs in Recommender Systems

Jannik Nitschke, Lukas Wegmeth, Joeran Beel

Ensemble methods are frequently used in recommender systems to improve accuracy by combining multiple models. Recent work reports sizable performance gains, but most studies still…

cs.IR2025

Green Recommender Systems: Understanding and Minimizing the Carbon Footprint of AI-Powered Personalization

Lukas Wegmeth, Tobias Vente, Alan Said +1

As global warming soars, the need to assess and reduce the environmental impact of recommender systems is becoming increasingly urgent. Despite this, the recommender systems commun…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

e-Fold Cross-Validation for Recommender-System Evaluation

Moritz Baumgart, Lukas Wegmeth, Tobias Vente +1

To combat the rising energy consumption of recommender systems we implement a novel alternative for k-fold cross validation. This alternative, named e-fold cross validation, aims t…

cs.IR2024

EMERS: Energy Meter for Recommender Systems

Lukas Wegmeth, Tobias Vente, Alan Said +1

Due to recent advancements in machine learning, recommender systems use increasingly more energy for training, evaluation, and deployment. However, the recommender systems communit…

cs.IR2024★ 3 cited

Recommender Systems Algorithm Selection for Ranking Prediction on Implicit Feedback Datasets

Lukas Wegmeth, Tobias Vente, Joeran Beel

The recommender systems algorithm selection problem for ranking prediction on implicit feedback datasets is under-explored. Traditional approaches in recommender systems algorithm…

cs.IR2024★ 39 cited

From Clicks to Carbon: The Environmental Toll of Recommender Systems

Tobias Vente, Lukas Wegmeth, Alan Said +1

As global warming soars, the need to assess the environmental impact of research is becoming increasingly urgent. Despite this, few recommender systems research papers address thei…

cs.IR2024

The Potential of AutoML for Recommender Systems

Tobias Vente, Joeran Beel

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has greatly advanced applications of Machine Learning (ML) including model compression, machine translation, and computer vision. Recommender Sy…

cs.IR2024

Revealing the Hidden Impact of Top-N Metrics on Optimization in Recommender Systems

Lukas Wegmeth, Tobias Vente, Lennart Purucker

The hyperparameters of recommender systems for top-n predictions are typically optimized to enhance the predictive performance of algorithms. Thereby, the optimization algorithm, e…

cs.IR2022★ 2 cited

The Impact of Feature Quantity on Recommendation Algorithm Performance: A Movielens-100K Case Study

Lukas Wegmeth

Recent model-based Recommender Systems (RecSys) algorithms emphasize on the use of features, also called side information, in their design similar to algorithms in Machine Learning…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Detecting Handwritten Mathematical Terms with Sensor Based Data

Lukas Wegmeth, Alexander Hoelzemann, Kristof Van Laerhoven

In this work we propose a solution to the UbiComp 2021 Challenge by Stabilo in which handwritten mathematical terms are supposed to be automatically classified based on time series…