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Recommender systems traditionally find the most relevant products or services for users tailored to their needs or interests but they ignore the interests of the other sides of the market (aka stakeholders). In this paper, we propose to use a Ranked Bandit approach for an online multi-stakeholder recommender system that sequentially selects top 𝑘 items according to the relevance and priority of all the involved stakeholders. We presented three different criteria to consider the priority of each stakeholder when evaluating our approach. Our extensive experimental results on a movie dataset showed that the contextual multi-armed bandits with a relevance function make a higher level of satisfaction for all involved stakeholders in the long term. Keywords: Multi-stakeholder Recommender Systems; Multi-armed Bandits; Ranked Bandit;
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Context-aware Multi-stakeholder Recommender Systems
Traditional recommender systems help users find the most relevant products or services to match their needs and preferences. However, they overlook the preferences of other sides of the market (aka stakeholders) involved in the system. In this paper, we propose to use contextual bandit algorithms in multi-stakeholder platforms where a multi-sided relevance function with adjusting weights is modeled to consider the preferences of all involved stakeholders. This algorithm sequentially recommends the items based on the contextual features of users along with the priority of the stakeholders and their relevance to the items.Our extensive experimental results on a dataset consisting of MovieLens (1m), IMDB (81k+), and a synthetic dataset show that our proposed approach outperforms the baseline methods and provides a good trade-off between the satisfaction of different stakeholders over time.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1739413
- PAR ID:
- 10392164
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings
- Volume:
- 35
- ISSN:
- 2334-0762
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.v35i.130573
