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Interesting papers from SIGIR '21

SIGIR, one of the best information retrieval and recommender systems conferences takes place this week. We skimmed through all the accepted papers to…

Jul 14, 2021 •

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Participatory ML and Recommender Alignment

Two real examples of improving alignment by widening participation

Jul 8, 2021 •

June 2021

Optimizing for Long Term Outcomes

A promising approach to practical recommender alignment is to move from optimizing for short term outcomes (e.g. views, clicks) to longer term outcomes…

Jun 9, 2021 •

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Do recommender systems shape our preferences?

This week we’re highlighting some work exploring whether recommender systems shape our preferences - by making us more predictable, by polarizing or…

Jun 2, 2021 •

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May 2021

Newsletter Introduction & Better Recommender Interfaces

Recommender systems increasingly determine which articles we read, which videos we watch, even which friends we hear from. They collectively determine…

May 26, 2021 •

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