A common approach for consumer and provider fairness in recommendations

• Main Authors: Sacharidis, Dimitris, MOURATIDIS, Kyriakos, Kleftogiannis, Dimitrios
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Fairness; Recommender systems; E-Commerce; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6943; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7946/viewcontent/CommonApproachConsumerFairness_2019.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We present a common approach for handling consumer and provider fairness in recommendations. Our solution requires defining two key components, a classification of items and a target distribution, which together define the case of perfect fairness. This formulation allows distinct fairness concepts...