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What Drives Readership? An Online Study on User Interface Types and Popularity Bias Mitigation in News Article Recommendations
Emanuel Lacic, Leon Fadljevic, Franz Weissenboeck +2
Personalized news recommender systems support readers in finding the right and relevant articles in online news platforms. In this paper, we discuss the introduction of personalize…
My friends also prefer diverse music: homophily and link prediction with user preferences for mainstream, novelty, and diversity in music
Tomislav Duricic, Dominik Kowald, Markus Schedl +1
Homophily describes the phenomenon that similarity breeds connection, i.e., individuals tend to form ties with other people who are similar to themselves in some aspect(s). The sim…
Position Paper on Simulating Privacy Dynamics in Recommender Systems
Peter Müllner, Elisabeth Lex, Dominik Kowald
In this position paper, we discuss the merits of simulating privacy dynamics in recommender systems. We study this issue at hand from two perspectives: Firstly, we present a concep…
Analyzing Item Popularity Bias of Music Recommender Systems: Are Different Genders Equally Affected?
Oleg Lesota, Alessandro B. Melchiorre, Navid Rekabsaz +4
Several studies have identified discrepancies between the popularity of items in user profiles and the corresponding recommendation lists. Such behavior, which concerns a variety o…
Support the Underground: Characteristics of Beyond-Mainstream Music Listeners
Dominik Kowald, Peter Muellner, Eva Zangerle +3
Music recommender systems have become an integral part of music streaming services such as Spotify and Last.fm to assist users navigating the extensive music collections offered by…
Robustness of Meta Matrix Factorization Against Strict Privacy Constraints
Peter Müllner, Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex
In this paper, we explore the reproducibility of MetaMF, a meta matrix factorization framework introduced by Lin et al. MetaMF employs meta learning for federated rating prediction…