arXiv:2507.14352cs.IRcs.AI2025-07被引 3

研究捆绑推荐中产品公平性,发现需同时关注组合与单个商品的曝光差异。

A Reproducibility Study of Product-side Fairness in Bundle Recommendation

  • 在真实数据上复现四种先进捆绑推荐方法,分析组合与单品层面的公平性
  • 发现组合与单品的曝光不均现象显著不同,单一维度评估易失真
  • 强调用户行为影响公平性,适合做推荐系统公平性研究的团队参考

推荐系统常存在产品侧不公平问题,即某些商品及其供应商在推荐结果中获得不均等曝光。尽管传统推荐场景已广泛研究此问题,但在捆绑推荐(BR)中仍缺乏探索。该任务在组合层生成推荐,但用户满意度和商品/供应商曝光依赖于组合及其中各商品。现有为传统推荐设计的公平性框架与指标难以直接适用。本文在三个真实数据集上,对四种先进BR方法进行综合性可复现性研究,使用多种公平性指标分析组合与商品层面的曝光差异,揭示关键模式。结果显示,组合与商品层级的曝光分布差异明显,表明公平干预需超越仅考虑组合的假设。此外,评估结果随指标变化显著,凸显多维度评估的重要性。用户行为起关键作用:当用户更频繁与组合互动而非单个商品时,系统在两层面上均呈现更公平的曝光分布。总体而言,研究为构建更公平的捆绑推荐系统提供实践洞察,并为该新兴领域奠定重要基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recommender systems are known to exhibit fairness issues, particularly on the product side, where products and their associated suppliers receive unequal exposure in recommended results. While this problem has been widely studied in traditional recommendation settings, its implications for bundle recommendation (BR) remain largely unexplored. This emerging task introduces additional complexity: recommendations are generated at the bundle level, yet user satisfaction and product (or supplier) exposure depend on both the bundle and the individual items it contains. Existing fairness frameworks and metrics designed for traditional recommender systems may not directly translate to this multi-layered setting. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive reproducibility study of product-side fairness in BR across three real-world datasets using four state-of-the-art BR methods. We analyze exposure disparities at both the bundle and item levels using multiple fairness metrics, uncovering important patterns. Our results show that exposure patterns differ notably between bundles and items, revealing the need for fairness interventions that go beyond bundle-level assumptions. We also find that fairness assessments vary considerably depending on the metric used, reinforcing the need for multi-faceted evaluation. Furthermore, user behavior plays a critical role: when users interact more frequently with bundles than with individual items, BR systems tend to yield fairer exposure distributions across both levels. Overall, our findings offer actionable insights for building fairer bundle recommender systems and establish a vital foundation for future research in this emerging domain.

捆绑推荐公平性可复现性曝光均衡

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