Montag, 12. November 2018, 16:45 - 17:45 iCal

ISOR Colloquium

"Recommender Systems and their Effects"

Speaker: Jakub Marecek (IBM Dublin)

HS 7 (#1.303), 1st floor
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien

Vortrag

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Recommender systems are widely used in settings, where actions impact the recommendations, which in turn have impact on the actions. For an example of such a closed-loop setting, consider navigation systems, which use information about travel times to recommend a route. If the particular navigation system is used widely enough, the recommendation may impact the future traffic state, possibly rendering the recommendation suboptimal from both the point of view of the driver and the society as a whole. Similar effects can be illustrated on the recommendations of restaurants. If a small bistro without a table reservation system becomes top ranked, many customers may arrive at its door and get turned down, leading to poor reviews. Further, there can be issues related to priming, for example when the reviews suggest the place is not touristy. Several problems arise, including the recovery of unbiased user models in the presence of recommenders and developing recommenders that allow for some guarantees on the closed-loop behaviour of the system.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Statistik und Operations Research

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Kontakt

Mag. Vera Lehmwald
Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Statistik und Operations Research
+43 1 4277 38651
vera.lehmwald@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2018, 10:37
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2018, 10:36