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13 papers

cs.AI2026

Interactive Query Answering on Knowledge Graphs with Soft Entity Constraints

Daniel Daza, Alberto Bernardi, Luca Costabello +4

Methods for query answering over incomplete knowledge graphs retrieve entities that are likely to be answers, which is particularly useful when such answers cannot be reached by di…

cs.IR2026

From Top-1 to Top-K: A Reproducibility Study and Benchmarking of Counterfactual Explanations for Recommender Systems

Quang-Huy Nguyen, Thanh-Hai Nguyen, Khac-Manh Thai +6

Counterfactual explanations (CEs) provide an intuitive way to understand recommender systems by identifying minimal modifications to user-item interactions that alter recommendatio…

cs.IR2026

From Insight to Intervention: Interpretable Neuron Steering for Controlling Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems

Parviz Ahmadov, Masoud Mansoury

Popularity bias is a pervasive challenge in recommender systems, where a few popular items dominate attention while the majority of less popular items remain underexposed. This imb…

cs.IR2026

The Unfairness of Multifactorial Bias in Recommendation

Masoud Mansoury, Jin Huang, Mykola Pechenizkiy +2

Popularity bias and positivity bias are two prominent sources of bias in recommender systems. Both arise from input data, propagate through recommendation models, and lead to unfai…

cs.IR2025

Effectiveness of LLMs in Temporal User Profiling for Recommendation

Milad Sabouri, Masoud Mansoury, Kun Lin +1

Effectively modeling the dynamic nature of user preferences is crucial for enhancing recommendation accuracy and fostering transparency in recommender systems. Traditional user pro…

cs.IR2025

Mitigating Popularity Bias in Counterfactual Explanations using Large Language Models

Arjan Hasami, Masoud Mansoury

Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) offer a tangible and actionable way to explain recommendations by showing users a "what-if" scenario that demonstrates how small changes in their…