Paper Info
Title
Reputation (In)dependence in Ranking Systems: Demographics Influence Over Output Disparities
Abstract
Recent literature on ranking systems (RS) has considered users' exposure when they are the object of the ranking. Although items are the object of reputation-based RS, users have a central role also in this class of algorithms. Indeed, when ranking the items, user preferences are weighted by how relevant this user is in the platform (i.e., their reputation). In this paper, we formulate the concept of disparate reputation (DR) and study if users characterized by sensitive attributes systematically get a lower reputation, leading to a final ranking that reflects less their preferences. We consider two demographic attributes, i.e., gender and age, and show that DR systematically occurs. Then, we propose mitigation, which ensures that reputation is independent of the users' sensitive attributes. Experiments on real-world data show that our approach can overcome DR and also improve ranking effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3397271.3401278
SIGIR '20: The 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval Virtual Event China July, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-8016-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guilherme Ramos101.35
Ludovico Boratto216330.91