arXiv:2602.02516cs.CYcs.AI2026-02中稿 · ECIR 2026 Full Pap…被引 1

提出新公平性度量PUF,同时考虑用户相似性和推荐效果差异。

Measuring Individual User Fairness with User Similarity and Effectiveness Disparity

  • 基于用户相似性与推荐效果差异,设计双维度公平性评估方法
  • 在4个数据集、7种推荐算法上验证,对效果差异和相似性均敏感
  • 首个能同时捕捉用户相似性与推荐效果的个体公平性度量

个体用户公平性通常理解为对相似用户给予相似对待。当前推荐系统中的公平性评估指标仅关注:(i) 无论用户是否相似,推荐效果的差异;或 (ii) 无论项目相关性如何,相似用户获得推荐项目的差异。有效性和用户相似性均是公平性的关键,但现有方法无法同时考量二者。为此,我们提出配对用户不公平性(PUF),一种新型个体用户公平性评估指标,同时包含有效性差异与用户相似性。实证表明,PUF在4个数据集、7种推荐算法下均稳定表现,且在变化用户相似性或有效性时仍具鲁棒性;而其他指标或几乎对有效性差异不敏感,或完全忽略用户相似性。本研究首次提供可可靠捕捉用户相似性与推荐效果的推荐系统公平性评估工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Individual user fairness is commonly understood as treating similar users similarly. In Recommender Systems (RSs), several evaluation measures exist for quantifying individual user fairness. These measures evaluate fairness via either: (i) the disparity in RS effectiveness scores regardless of user similarity, or (ii) the disparity in items recommended to similar users regardless of item relevance. Both disparity in recommendation effectiveness and user similarity are very important in fairness, yet no existing individual user fairness measure simultaneously accounts for both. In brief, current user fairness evaluation measures implement a largely incomplete definition of fairness. To fill this gap, we present Pairwise User unFairness (PUF), a novel evaluation measure of individual user fairness that considers both effectiveness disparity and user similarity. PUF is the only measure that can express this important distinction. We empirically validate that PUF does this consistently across 4 datasets and 7 rankers, and robustly when varying user similarity or effectiveness. In contrast, all other measures are either almost insensitive to effectiveness disparity or completely insensitive to user similarity. We contribute the first RS evaluation measure to reliably capture both user similarity and effectiveness in individual user fairness. Our code: https://github.com/theresiavr/PUF-individual-user-fairness-recsys.

推荐系统公平性用户相似性评估指标

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