用公平性正则化提升论文推荐公平性,不降质量
From Bias to Balance: Fairness-Aware Paper Recommendation for Equitable Peer Review
- 在推荐系统中加入可微分的公平性损失,按作者背景重排序论文
- 真实会议数据中,边缘群体参与度最高提升42.03%,质量下降不超过3.16%
- 适合关注学术公平、审稿系统优化的研究者和会议组织者
尽管采用双盲评审,作者身份特征相关的系统性偏见仍使代表性不足群体处于不利地位。本文提出Fair-PaperRec,一种基于多层感知机(MLP)的后审稿推荐模型,引入对交集属性(如种族、国家)的可微分公平性损失,重新排序论文。在包含高、中、近似公平偏见的合成数据上,增加公平性权重能显著提升宏观/微观多样性,同时保持效用基本稳定。在ACM SIGCHI、DIS、IUI三个会议的真实数据上,经适当调参的Fair-PaperRec实现边缘群体参与度最高提升42.03%,整体效用变化不超过3.16%。结果表明,公平性正则化可在高度偏见环境下同时促进公平与维持质量。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Despite frequent double-blind review, systemic biases related to author demographics still disadvantage underrepresented groups. We start from a simple hypothesis: if a post-review recommender is trained with an explicit fairness regularizer, it should increase inclusion without degrading quality. To test this, we introduce Fair-PaperRec, a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) with a differentiable fairness loss over intersectional attributes (e.g., race, country) that re-ranks papers after double-blind review. We first probe the hypothesis on synthetic datasets spanning high, moderate, and near-fair biases. Across multiple randomized runs, these controlled studies map where increasing the fairness weight strengthens macro/micro diversity while keeping utility approximately stable, demonstrating robustness and adaptability under varying disparity levels. We then carry the hypothesis into the original setting, conference data from ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), and Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). In this real-world scenario, an appropriately tuned configuration of Fair-PaperRec achieves up to a 42.03% increase in underrepresented-group participation with at most a 3.16% change in overall utility relative to the historical selection. Taken together, the synthetic-to-original progression shows that fairness regularization can act as both an equity mechanism and a mild quality regularizer, especially in highly biased regimes. By first analyzing the behavior of the fairness parameters under controlled conditions and then validating them on real submissions, Fair-PaperRec offers a practical, equity-focused framework for post-review paper selection that preserves, and in some settings can even enhance, measured scholarly quality.
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