6 papers
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…
Meta-Learning and Targeted Differential Privacy to Improve the Accuracy-Privacy Trade-off in Recommendations
Peter Müllner, Dominik Kowald, Markus Schedl +1
Balancing differential privacy (DP) with recommendation accuracy is a key challenge in privacy-preserving recommender systems, since DP-noise degrades accuracy. We address this tra…
Fair Agents: Balancing Multistakeholder Alignment in Multi-Agent Personalization Systems
Andrea Forster, Peter Müllner, Denis Helic +2
LLM agents are increasingly used for personalization due to their ability to communicate directly with users in natural language, integrate external knowledge bases, and negotiate…
Hybrid Personalization Using Declarative and Procedural Memory Modules of the Cognitive Architecture ACT-R
Kevin Innerebner, Dominik Kowald, Markus Schedl +1
Recommender systems often rely on sub-symbolic machine learning approaches that operate as opaque black boxes. These approaches typically fail to account for the cognitive processe…
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…
Making Alice Appear Like Bob: A Probabilistic Preference Obfuscation Method For Implicit Feedback Recommendation Models
Gustavo Escobedo, Marta Moscati, Peter Muellner +4
Users' interaction or preference data used in recommender systems carry the risk of unintentionally revealing users' private attributes (e.g., gender or race). This risk becomes pa…