Recommender Systems

Scalable and Provably Fair Exposure Control for Large-Scale Recommender Systems
Typical recommendation and ranking methods aim to optimize the satisfaction of users, but they are often oblivious to their impact on …
Riku Togashi, Kenshi Abe, Yuta Saito
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Off-Policy Evaluation of Ranking Policies under Diverse User Behavior
Ranking interfaces are everywhere in online platforms. There is thus an ever growing interest in their Off-Policy Evaluation (OPE), …
Haruka Kiyohara, Tatsuya Matsuhiro, Yusuke Narita, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Yasuo Yamamoto, Yuta Saito
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Fair Ranking as Fair Division: Impact-Based Individual Fairness in Ranking
Rankings have become the primary interface of many two-sided markets. Many have noted that the rankings not only affect the …
Yuta Saito, Thorsten Joachims
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Off-Policy Evaluation for Large Action Spaces via Embeddings
Off-policy evaluation (OPE) in contextual bandits has seen rapid adoption in real-world systems, since it enables offline evaluation of …
Yuta Saito, Thorsten Joachims
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Towards Resolving Propensity Contradiction in Offline Recommender Learning
We study offline recommender learning from explicit rating feedback in the presence of selection bias. A current promising solution for …
Yuta Saito, Masahiro Nomura
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Doubly Robust Off-Policy Evaluation for Ranking Policies under the Cascade Behavior Model
In real-world recommender systems and search engines, optimizing ranking decisions to present a ranked list of relevant items is …
Haruka Kiyohara, Yuta Saito, Tatsuya Matsuhiro, Yusuke Narita, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Yasuo Yamamoto
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Doubly Robust Estimator for Ranking Metrics with Post-Click Conversions
Post-click conversion, a pre-defined action on a web service after a click, is an essential form of feedback, as it directly …
Yuta Saito
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Unbiased Pairwise Learning from Biased Implicit Feedback
Implicit feedback is prevalent in real-world scenarios and is widely used in the construction of recommender systems. However, the …
Yuta Saito
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Asymmetric Tri-training for Debiasing Missing-Not-At-Random Explicit Feedback
In most real-world recommender systems, the observed rating data are subject to selection bias, and the data are thus …
Yuta Saito
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