3 papers
cs.AI2026
Disentangled Instrumental Variables for Causal Inference with Networked Observational Data
Zhirong Huang, Debo Cheng, Guixian Zhang +3
Instrumental variables (IVs) are crucial for addressing unobservable confounders, yet their stringent exogeneity assumptions pose significant challenges in networked data. Existing…
cs.IR2024
Multi-Cause Deconfounding for Recommender Systems with Latent Confounders
Zhirong Huang, Shichao Zhang, Debo Cheng +3
In recommender systems, various latent confounding factors (e.g., user social environment and item public attractiveness) can affect user behavior, item exposure, and feedback in d…
cs.IR2024
Debiased Contrastive Representation Learning for Mitigating Dual Biases in Recommender Systems
Zhirong Huang, Shichao Zhang, Debo Cheng +3
In recommender systems, popularity and conformity biases undermine recommender effectiveness by disproportionately favouring popular items, leading to their over-representation in…