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Deconfounding Oser Preference in Recommendation Systems through Implicit and Explicit Feedback

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Yuliang Liang
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Enneng Yang
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Guibing Guo *
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Wei Cai
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Linying Jiang
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Xingwei Wang
DOI:10.1145/3673762delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Recommender systems are influenced by many confounding factors (i.e., confounders) which result in various biases (e.g., popularity biases) and inaccurate user preference. Existing approaches try to eliminate these biases by inference with causal graphs. However, they assume all confounding factors can be observed and no hidden confounders exist. We argue that many confounding factors (e.g., season) may not be observable from user-item interaction data, resulting inaccurate user preference. In this article, we propose a deconfounded recommender considering unobservable confounders. Specifically, we propose a new causal graph with explicit and implicit feedback, which can better model user preference. Then, we realize a deconfounded estimator by the front-door adjustment, which is able to eliminate the effect of unobserved confounders. Finally, we conduct a series of experiments on two real-world datasets, and the results show that our approach performs better thall other coulterparts in Terims of reconifendation accuracy.
Keywords:
Causal recommender systems
confounder
implicit feedback
explicit feedback

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ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data cover
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
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northeastern university - china
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Citations: 37