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most citedBias and Unfairness in Information Retrieval Systems: New Challenges in the LLM Era

124 citations · 165 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

NExT-Search: Rebuilding User Feedback Ecosystem for Generative AI Search

Sunhao Dai, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang +4

Generative AI search is reshaping information retrieval by offering end-to-end answers to complex queries, reducing users' reliance on manually browsing and summarizing multiple we…

cs.IR2025

Understanding Accuracy-Fairness Trade-offs in Re-ranking through Elasticity in Economics

Chen Xu, Jujia Zhao, Wenjie Wang +4

Fairness is an increasingly important factor in re-ranking tasks. Prior work has identified a trade-off between ranking accuracy and item fairness. However, the underlying mechanis…

cs.CL2025

Perplexity Trap: PLM-Based Retrievers Overrate Low Perplexity Documents

Haoyu Wang, Sunhao Dai, Haiyuan Zhao +6

Previous studies have found that PLM-based retrieval models exhibit a preference for LLM-generated content, assigning higher relevance scores to these documents even when their sem…

cs.IR2025

Bridging Jensen Gap for Max-Min Group Fairness Optimization in Recommendation

Chen Xu, Yuxin Li, Wenjie Wang +3

Group max-min fairness (MMF) is commonly used in fairness-aware recommender systems (RS) as an optimization objective, as it aims to protect marginalized item groups and ensures a…

cs.IR2024

Cocktail: A Comprehensive Information Retrieval Benchmark with LLM-Generated Documents Integration

Sunhao Dai, Weihao Liu, Yuqi Zhou +6

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to an influx of AI-generated content (AIGC) on the internet, transforming the corpus of Information Retrieval (IR) systems…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Exploring the Escalation of Source Bias in User, Data, and Recommender System Feedback Loop

Yuqi Zhou, Sunhao Dai, Liang Pang +4

Recommender systems are essential for information access, allowing users to present their content for recommendation. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), AI-generated co…

cs.IR2024

A Taxation Perspective for Fair Re-ranking

Chen Xu, Xiaopeng Ye, Wenjie Wang +3

Fair re-ranking aims to redistribute ranking slots among items more equitably to ensure responsibility and ethics. The exploration of redistribution problems has a long history in…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

A Survey of Generative Search and Recommendation in the Era of Large Language Models

Yongqi Li, Xinyu Lin, Wenjie Wang +6

With the information explosion on the Web, search and recommendation are foundational infrastructures to satisfying users' information needs. As the two sides of the same coin, bot…

cs.IR2024★ 124 cited

Bias and Unfairness in Information Retrieval Systems: New Challenges in the LLM Era

Sunhao Dai, Chen Xu, Shicheng Xu +3

With the rapid advancements of large language models (LLMs), information retrieval (IR) systems, such as search engines and recommender systems, have undergone a significant paradi…

cs.IR2023

SCTc-TE: A Comprehensive Formulation and Benchmark for Temporal Event Forecasting

Yunshan Ma, Chenchen Ye, Zijian Wu +4

Temporal complex event forecasting aims to predict the future events given the observed events from history. Most formulations of temporal complex event are unstructured or without…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

A Study of Implicit Ranking Unfairness in Large Language Models

Chen Xu, Wenjie Wang, Yuxin Li +3

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a superior ability to serve as ranking models. However, concerns have arisen as LLMs will exhibit discriminatory ranking be…

cs.IR2023★ 32 cited

Neural Retrievers are Biased Towards LLM-Generated Content

Sunhao Dai, Yuqi Zhou, Liang Pang +6

Recently, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the paradigm of information retrieval (IR) applications, especially in web search, by generating vast amo…