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most citedAnalyzing Item Popularity Bias of Music Recommender Systems: Are Different Genders Equally Affected?

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What Price Fairness? Evaluating Energy - Fairness - Accuracy Trade-off in Recommender Systems

Abhirup Mitra, Oleg Lesota, Antonela Tommasel

Fairness-aware recommender systems aim to mitigate systematic imbalances in recommendation outcomes, including how visibility, relevance, and opportunities are distributed among us…

cs.IR2026

Training seeds and model-selection stability in recommender-system evaluation

Juan Manuel Rodriguez, Oleg Lesota, Antonela Tommasel

Recommender-system experiments often rely on a single random training seed, assuming that run-to-run stochasticity has limited impact on evaluation conclusions. This assumption is…

cs.IR2026

Robustness and User-Perceived Value of Popularity Calibration in Music Recommendation: A User Study

Oleg Lesota, Gustavo Escobedo, Bruce Ferwerda +4

Popularity calibration in recommender systems has been studied both as a form of user-centered personalization and as an indicator of popularity bias. Most existing work evaluates…

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Adaptive Autoguidance for Item-Side Fairness in Diffusion Recommender Systems

Zihan Li, Gustavo Escobedo, Marta Moscati +2

Diffusion recommender systems achieve strong recommendation accuracy but often suffer from popularity bias, resulting in unequal item exposure. To address this shortcoming, we intr…

cs.IR2024

The Importance of Cognitive Biases in the Recommendation Ecosystem

Markus Schedl, Oleg Lesota, Stefan Brandl +3

Cognitive biases have been studied in psychology, sociology, and behavioral economics for decades. Traditionally, they have been considered a negative human trait that leads to inf…

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Oh, Behave! Country Representation Dynamics Created by Feedback Loops in Music Recommender Systems

Oleg Lesota, Jonas Geiger, Max Walder +2

Recent work suggests that music recommender systems are prone to disproportionally frequent recommendations of music from countries more prominently represented in the training dat…