Title
Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders
Abstract
ABSTRACTAs recommender systems play an important role in everyday life, there is an increasing pressure that such systems are fair. Besides serving diverse groups of users, recommenders need to represent and serve item providers fairly as well. In interviews with music artists, we identified that gender fairness is one of the artists' main concerns. They emphasized that female artists should be given more exposure in music recommendations. We analyze a widely-used collaborative filtering approach with two public datasets-enriched with gender information-to understand how this approach performs with respect to the artists' gender. To achieve gender balance, we propose a progressive re-ranking method that is based on the insights from the interviews. For the evaluation, we rely on a simulation of feedback loops and provide an in-depth analysis using state-of-the-art performance measures and metrics concerning gen-der fairness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3406522.3446033
IR
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Recommender systems, artists, music, gender balance, fairness, bias
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andres Ferraro174.64
Xavier Serra21014118.93
Christine Bauer39618.30