推荐系统公平性的离线评估指标

HuggingFace Daily Papers(社区热门论文)·2026-04-27 08:00·121天前
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随着公平与负责任人工智能相关立法推进,推荐系统公平性评估日益重要,但现有众多离线公平性指标缺乏稳健性分析,其局限性未被充分认知。研究系统评估了基于用户与物品、群体与个体等不同维度的公平性指标,通过理论与实证分析揭示了其在可解释性、表达力与适用性上的缺陷。针对这些不足,研究提出了新的评估方法与改进指标,并制定了实际场景中公平性指标的选择指南,推动推荐系统公平性离线评估领域的发展。

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推荐系统公平性的离线评估指标

2026-04-27 08:00· 121天前
AI 导读

随着公平与负责任人工智能相关立法推进,推荐系统公平性评估日益重要,但现有众多离线公平性指标缺乏稳健性分析,其局限性未被充分认知。研究系统评估了基于用户与物品、群体与个体等不同维度的公平性指标,通过理论与实证分析揭示了其在可解释性、表达力与适用性上的缺陷。针对这些不足,研究提出了新的评估方法与改进指标,并制定了实际场景中公平性指标的选择指南,推动推荐系统公平性离线评估领域的发展。

The evaluation of recommender system fairness has become increasingly important, especially with recent legislation that emphasises the development of fair and responsible artificial intelligence. This has led to the emergence of various fairness evaluation measures, which quantify fairness based on different definitions. However, many of such measures are simply proposed and used without further analysis on their robustness. As a result, there is insufficient understanding and awareness of the measures' limitations. Among other issues, it is not known what kind of model outputs produce the (un)fairest score, how the measure scores are empirically distributed, and whether there are cases where the measures cannot be computed (e.g., due to division by zero). These issues cause difficulty in interpreting the measure scores and confusion on which measure(s) should be used for a specific case. This thesis presents a series of papers that assess and overcome various theoretical, empirical, and conceptual limitations of existing recommender system fairness evaluation measures. We investigate a wide range of offline evaluation measures for different fairness notions, divided based on the evaluation subjects (users and items) and for different evaluation granularities (groups of subjects and individual subjects). Firstly, we perform theoretical and empirical analysis on the measures, exposing flaws that limit their interpretability, expressiveness, or applicability. Secondly, we contribute novel evaluation approaches and measures that overcome these limitations. Finally, considering the measures' limitations, we recommend guidelines for the appropriate measure usage, thereby allowing for more precise selection of fairness evaluation measures in practical scenarios. Overall, this thesis contributes to advancing the state-of-the-art offline evaluation of fairness in recommender systems.

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