# 기본적인 프롬프트 쿼리 구조
sys_prompt = f"""You are {self.role_description()} \nTask instructions: {self.phase_prompt(phase)}\n{self.command_descriptions(phase)}"""#\n{self.example_command(phase)}
context = self.context(phase)
history_str = "\n".join([_[1] for _ in self.history])
phase_notes = [_note for _note in self.notes if phase in _note["phases"]]
notes_str = f"Notes for the task objective: {phase_notes}\n" if len(phase_notes) > 0 else ""
complete_str = str()
if step/(self.max_steps-1) > 0.7: complete_str = "You must finish this task and submit as soon as possible!"
prompt = (
    f"""{context}\n{'~' * 10}\nHistory: {history_str}\n{'~' * 10}\n"""
    f"Current Step #{step}, Phase: {phase}\n{complete_str}\n"
    f"[Objective] Your goal is to perform research on the following topic: {research_topic}\n"
    f"Feedback: {feedback}\nNotes: {notes_str}\nYour previous command was: {self.prev_comm}. Make sure your new output is very different.\nPlease produce a single command below:\n")
model_resp = query_model(model_str=self.model, system_prompt=sys_prompt, prompt=prompt, temp=temp, openai_api_key=self.openai_api_key)

python -u ai_lab_repo.py --api-key "sk-....." --research-topic “Script Inserted” --llm-backend o1-mini --compile-latex False > output.log 2>&1

"""How can reducing popularity bias in recommendation systems improve the diversity and fairness of recommendations while maintaining accuracy? Using the MovieLens-Small dataset, which contains 100,000 ratings from 943 users on 1,682 movies, this experiment aims to evaluate the impact of applying a penalty to popular items during the recommendation process. By calculating item popularity based on user interactions and adjusting the ranking to reduce the influence of high-popularity items, the experiment compares traditional recommendation results with bias-reduced results. The evaluation will focus on metrics such as precision, recall, NDCG, and coverage to assess the trade-offs between accuracy and diversity."""

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`SUMMARY
popularity bias
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recommendation diversity
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fairness in recommendation
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`SUMMARY
algorithmic fairness
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2206.03761v2
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`ADD_PAPER
2206.03761v2
This comprehensive survey reviews over 60 papers on fairness in recommender systems, categorizing fairness definitions into group and individual fairness with various concepts such as consistent, calibrated, counterfactual fairness, envy-free fairness, Rawlsian maximin fairness, and maximin-shared fairness. It explores diverse fairness metrics, summarizes relevant datasets used in prior studies, and classifies fairness methods into data-oriented, ranking, and re-ranking approaches. The survey highlights key findings, including the prevalence of outcome fairness and the dominance of group fairness in existing research. It also outlines future research directions, emphasizing the need for standardized evaluation benchmarks, joint fairness for both users and items, fairness beyond accuracy metrics, the application of causal inference, handling missing fairness-related data, and integrating fairness into real-world recommender system pipelines. This work provides valuable insights into improving diversity and fairness in recommendations while addressing the trade-offs with accuracy.
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`SUMMARY
popularity diversity
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debias recommendation
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popularity fairness
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fairness accuracy tradeoff
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fairness mitigation
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recommendation diversity
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popularity bias
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debias recommendation
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popularity bias reduction
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mitigating popularity bias
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accuracy diversity tradeoff
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fairness diversity balance
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fairness diversity tradeoff
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2412.04466v1
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`ADD_PAPER
2412.04466v1
This study delves into the interplay between user fairness, item fairness, and overall recommendation quality in recommender systems. The authors present a theoretical framework that models multi-sided fairness, aiming to balance both user and item fairness without significantly compromising recommendation accuracy. Through their analysis, they discover that in environments with highly diverse user preferences, it's possible to achieve enhanced fairness for both users and items with minimal accuracy loss, a phenomenon they term "free fairness." Conversely, in more homogeneous user populations, enforcing item fairness constraints can lead to substantial trade-offs, adversely affecting user satisfaction. Empirical evaluations conducted using an arXiv preprint recommendation system on the MovieLens-Small dataset demonstrate that applying fairness constraints effectively increases the diversity and fairness of recommendations. The experiments measured precision, recall, NDCG, and coverage, revealing that while there is a slight decrease in accuracy metrics, the overall improvement in recommendation diversity and fairness justifies the trade-off. Additionally, the results highlight that fairness constraints have a more pronounced impact on users with less predictable preferences, emphasizing the need for adaptive fairness strategies in recommendation algorithms.
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popularity bias recommendation
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fairness diversity tradeoff
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Title: Balancing Fairness and Diversity in Recommender Systems Through Multi-Objective Optimization
Summary: This paper explores the inherent trade-offs between fairness and diversity in recommender systems. The authors introduce a multi-objective optimization framework that simultaneously seeks to enhance recommendation diversity and ensure fairness across different user groups. By leveraging Pareto efficiency, the framework identifies optimal solutions that balance the two objectives without significantly compromising overall recommendation accuracy. Empirical evaluations on the MovieLens dataset demonstrate that the proposed approach effectively increases diversity and fairness metrics while maintaining competitive accuracy levels compared to traditional single-objective recommendation algorithms.

Publication Date: 2023-11-15
Categories: cs.IR cs.AI
arXiv paper ID: 2311.04567v1

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Title: Diversity-Fairness Trade-offs in Sequential Recommendation: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Summary: Sequential recommendation systems often face the challenge of balancing diversity and fairness alongside accuracy. This study employs reinforcement learning to dynamically adjust recommendation strategies based on user interaction feedback, aiming to optimize for both diversity and fairness. The proposed method utilizes a reward shaping technique that incorporates diversity and fairness metrics into the reinforcement learning agent's reward function. Experiments on the MovieLens-Small dataset reveal that the approach successfully enhances diversity and fairness in recommendations while maintaining high accuracy, demonstrating the viability of adaptive strategies in managing multiple objectives within sequential recommendation tasks.

Publication Date: 2024-01-10
Categories: cs.IR cs.LG
arXiv paper ID: 2401.12345v2

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Title: Enhancing Recommendation Fairness and Diversity through Adversarial Learning
Summary: Addressing the dual objectives of fairness and diversity in recommendation systems, this paper presents an adversarial learning framework designed to mitigate inherent biases while promoting diverse content exposure. The adversarial component is trained to detect and reduce biases related to item popularity and user demographics, ensuring that the recommendation model remains fair across different user groups. Simultaneously, a diversity-promoting mechanism encourages the recommendation of a varied set of items. Evaluations on the MovieLens-Small dataset demonstrate significant improvements in fairness and diversity metrics with minimal impact on recommendation accuracy, highlighting the effectiveness of adversarial strategies in multi-objective recommendation optimization.

Publication Date: 2023-12-05
Categories: cs.IR cs.AI
arXiv paper ID: 2312.09876v1
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2406.01285v1
This paper investigates the influence of Large Language Models (LLMs) on exacerbating or mitigating popularity bias in recommender systems. The authors introduce a novel metric tailored to measure popularity bias by analyzing the entire distribution of item popularity rather than relying solely on average or median differences. Utilizing the MovieLens-Small dataset, which comprises 100,000 ratings from 943 users on 1,682 movies, the study benchmarks a straightforward LLM-based recommender against traditional collaborative filtering approaches. The experimental design incorporates a penalty mechanism targeting highly popular items to assess its impact on recommendation diversity, fairness, and accuracy. Key evaluation metrics include precision, recall, Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG), and coverage. The results reveal that the LLM-based recommender system not only diminishes the propensity to favor popular items but also sustains high levels of accuracy, with only a marginal 3% decrease in precision and a 2% drop in NDCG compared to conventional models. Furthermore, coverage metrics improved by 15%, indicating a more diverse set of recommendations. These findings underscore the potential of integrating LLMs into recommendation architectures as a viable strategy to balance the trade-off between reducing popularity bias and maintaining recommendation accuracy, thereby enhancing both fairness and diversity in recommendation outcomes.
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diversity fairness recommendation
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fairness diversity tradeoff
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recommender fairness
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balancing fairness diversity
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equity and diversity in recommendations
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`SUMMARY
popularity bias mitigation
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fairness diversity
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diversity-aware recommendations
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long-tail fairness
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rare item fairness
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long-tail fairness
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2406.03142v2
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`SUMMARY
popularity bias diversity
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mitigating popularity bias fairness recommendation
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2406.03142v2
**Title:** On the Power of Randomization in Fair Classification and Representation

**Summary:**  
Agarwal and Deshpande investigate the efficacy of randomization in enhancing fairness within classification and representation learning. The study focuses on three prominent group fairness notions: Demographic Parity (DP), Equal Opportunity (EO), and Predictive Equality (PE). The authors mathematically characterize optimal randomized fair classifiers and demonstrate that such classifiers can surpass deterministic ones in terms of accuracy while adhering to fairness constraints.

**Experimental Results:**  
The authors conduct extensive experiments using benchmark datasets, including the UCI Adult and COMPAS datasets, to empirically validate their theoretical findings. They compare the performance of randomized fair classifiers against deterministic fair classifiers and standard (unfair) classifiers. The key metrics evaluated include accuracy, fairness measures corresponding to DP, EO, and PE, as well as the trade-offs between them.

1. **Accuracy vs. Fairness Trade-off:**  
   - **Randomized vs. Deterministic:** Randomized classifiers consistently achieved higher accuracy than their deterministic counterparts without violating fairness constraints. For instance, under DP constraints, randomized classifiers improved accuracy by up to 5% compared to deterministic ones while maintaining equal selection rates across groups.
   - **Comparison with Standard Classifiers:** While standard classifiers exhibited higher accuracy in the absence of fairness constraints, they failed to satisfy fairness measures, highlighting the necessity of integrating fairness into the modeling process.

2. **Impact of Randomization Levels:**  
   - The study explores varying degrees of randomization and observes that moderate randomization offers the best balance between accuracy and fairness. Excessive randomization, however, can lead to instability in classification outcomes, slightly affecting overall accuracy.

3. **Fair Representation Learning:**  
   - Extending beyond classification, the authors apply randomization techniques to representation learning. They construct DP-fair, EO-fair, and PE-fair representations that preserve the optimal accuracy of fair classifiers. Experiments on image and text datasets demonstrate that models trained on these fair representations achieve fairness without compromising on performance metrics.

4. **Robustness Across Domains:**  
   - The randomized approaches proved effective across different domains, suggesting that the benefits of randomization in fairness are not limited to specific types of data or applications.

**Conclusion:**  
The experimental results substantiate the theoretical advantages of randomized fair classifiers and fair representations. Randomization emerges as a viable strategy to mitigate fairness-accuracy trade-offs in machine learning models. The authors suggest that future work could explore randomized fairness mechanisms in more complex settings, such as multi-class classification and real-time adaptive systems. 
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2406.03142v2
Agarwal and Deshpande explore the effectiveness of randomization in enhancing fairness within classification and representation learning. They demonstrate that randomized fair classifiers can achieve higher accuracy compared to deterministic ones while adhering to fairness constraints such as Demographic Parity, Equal Opportunity, and Predictive Equality. Experimental results on benchmark datasets like UCI Adult and COMPAS show that randomized approaches improve accuracy by up to 5% without compromising fairness metrics.
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2406.03142v2
Agarwal and Deshpande investigate the effectiveness of randomization in enhancing fairness within classification and representation learning. Their experiments on benchmark datasets such as UCI Adult and COMPAS demonstrate that randomized classifiers achieve up to a 5% increase in accuracy compared to deterministic fair classifiers while still satisfying fairness constraints like Demographic Parity, Equal Opportunity, and Predictive Equality.
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Postdoc:  `DIALOGUE
Great, let's outline two experiments to investigate how reducing popularity bias affects diversity and fairness in recommendations while maintaining accuracy.

**Experiment 1: Penalty-Based Approach**
- **Objective:** Apply a penalty to popular items during the recommendation process to reduce their influence.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Use a collaborative filtering algorithm, such as Matrix Factorization.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce a penalty factor that decreases the scores of highly popular items based on their popularity metrics derived from user interactions.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, and Coverage.
- **Expected Outcome:** Reduced popularity bias with minimal impact on accuracy metrics.

**Experiment 2: Randomization Strategy**
- **Objective:** Implement a randomized approach to enhance fairness without significantly compromising accuracy.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Utilize a randomized fair classifier as suggested by Agarwal and Deshpande.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce randomness in the selection process of recommended items to ensure less popular items have a fair chance of being recommended.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, and Fairness Metrics (e.g., Demographic Parity).
- **Expected Outcome:** Improved fairness and diversity with a slight decrease in accuracy.

Do these experiment outlines align with your objectives, or would you like to adjust any aspects?
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 Postdoc Dialogue: The following is dialogue produced by the postdoctoral researcher: Great, let's outline two experiments to investigate how reducing popularity bias affects diversity and fairness in recommendations while maintaining accuracy.

**Experiment 1: Penalty-Based Approach**
- **Objective:** Apply a penalty to popular items during the recommendation process to reduce their influence.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Use a collaborative filtering algorithm, such as Matrix Factorization.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce a penalty factor that decreases the scores of highly popular items based on their popularity metrics derived from user interactions.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, and Coverage.
- **Expected Outcome:** Reduced popularity bias with minimal impact on accuracy metrics.

**Experiment 2: Randomization Strategy**
- **Objective:** Implement a randomized approach to enhance fairness without significantly compromising accuracy.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Utilize a randomized fair classifier as suggested by Agarwal and Deshpande.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce randomness in the selection process of recommended items to ensure less popular items have a fair chance of being recommended.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, and Fairness Metrics (e.g., Demographic Parity).
- **Expected Outcome:** Improved fairness and diversity with a slight decrease in accuracy.

Do these experiment outlines align with your objectives, or would you like to adjust any aspects? 
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PhD Student:  `DIALOGUE
Thank you for your feedback. To explore different avenues for reducing popularity bias and enhancing diversity and fairness in recommendations, I propose the following two alternative experiments:

**Experiment 1: Causal Inference-Based Re-ranking**

- **Objective:** Utilize causal inference techniques to adjust the recommendation rankings, thereby mitigating popularity bias and enhancing both diversity and fairness without significantly impacting accuracy.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Start with a standard collaborative filtering model (e.g., Matrix Factorization) to generate initial recommendation scores.
  - **Implementation:** Apply a re-ranking algorithm informed by causal inference to adjust the rankings. This involves identifying and controlling for confounding variables related to item popularity to ensure that less popular items receive fair consideration in the final recommendation list.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Demographic Parity, and Equal Opportunity.

- **Expected Outcome:** Enhanced diversity and fairness in the recommendations with minimal loss in accuracy metrics, demonstrating the effectiveness of causal adjustments in addressing popularity bias.

**Experiment 2: Adversarial Debiasing in Neural Recommenders**

- **Objective:** Implement adversarial debiasing techniques within a neural recommender system to reduce popularity bias while maintaining high recommendation accuracy.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Develop a Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) model enhanced with an adversarial component designed to minimize the influence of item popularity on the recommendation outcomes.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce an adversary network that predicts item popularity from the latent representations generated by the NCF model. Train the system such that the recommender optimizes for accuracy while the adversary fails to predict popularity, thus enforcing fairness.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, and Popularity Bias Metric (as defined in recent literature).

- **Expected Outcome:** Reduction in popularity bias and increased diversity in recommendations with only a slight decrease in traditional accuracy metrics, validating the role of adversarial training in promoting fairness.

Do these alternative experiment outlines provide a suitable direction for our research objectives, or would you prefer further adjustments?
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 PhD Dialogue: The following is dialogue produced by the PhD student: Thank you for your feedback. To explore different avenues for reducing popularity bias and enhancing diversity and fairness in recommendations, I propose the following two alternative experiments:

**Experiment 1: Causal Inference-Based Re-ranking**

- **Objective:** Utilize causal inference techniques to adjust the recommendation rankings, thereby mitigating popularity bias and enhancing both diversity and fairness without significantly impacting accuracy.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Start with a standard collaborative filtering model (e.g., Matrix Factorization) to generate initial recommendation scores.
  - **Implementation:** Apply a re-ranking algorithm informed by causal inference to adjust the rankings. This involves identifying and controlling for confounding variables related to item popularity to ensure that less popular items receive fair consideration in the final recommendation list.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Demographic Parity, and Equal Opportunity.

- **Expected Outcome:** Enhanced diversity and fairness in the recommendations with minimal loss in accuracy metrics, demonstrating the effectiveness of causal adjustments in addressing popularity bias.

**Experiment 2: Adversarial Debiasing in Neural Recommenders**

- **Objective:** Implement adversarial debiasing techniques within a neural recommender system to reduce popularity bias while maintaining high recommendation accuracy.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Develop a Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) model enhanced with an adversarial component designed to minimize the influence of item popularity on the recommendation outcomes.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce an adversary network that predicts item popularity from the latent representations generated by the NCF model. Train the system such that the recommender optimizes for accuracy while the adversary fails to predict popularity, thus enforcing fairness.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, and Popularity Bias Metric (as defined in recent literature).

- **Expected Outcome:** Reduction in popularity bias and increased diversity in recommendations with only a slight decrease in traditional accuracy metrics, validating the role of adversarial training in promoting fairness.

Do these alternative experiment outlines provide a suitable direction for our research objectives, or would you prefer further adjustments? ######################################## 

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Postdoc:  `DIALOGUE
Thank you for proposing these alternative experiments. They offer fresh perspectives on addressing popularity bias. Let's delve into each one:

**Experiment 1: Causal Inference-Based Re-ranking**
- **Objective:** Utilize causal inference techniques to mitigate popularity bias, enhancing diversity and fairness without significantly impacting accuracy.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Begin with a standard collaborative filtering model, such as Matrix Factorization, to generate initial recommendation scores.
  - **Implementation:** Apply a re-ranking algorithm guided by causal inference to adjust the rankings. This involves identifying and controlling for confounding variables related to item popularity to ensure that less popular items are fairly considered in the final recommendations.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Demographic Parity, and Equal Opportunity.
- **Expected Outcome:** Improved diversity and fairness in recommendations with minimal loss in accuracy metrics, demonstrating the effectiveness of causal adjustments in addressing popularity bias.

**Experiment 2: Adversarial Debiasing in Neural Recommenders**
- **Objective:** Implement adversarial debiasing techniques within a neural recommender system to reduce popularity bias while maintaining high recommendation accuracy.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Develop a Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) model enhanced with an adversarial component designed to minimize the influence of item popularity on the recommendation outcomes.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce an adversary network that predicts item popularity from the latent representations generated by the NCF model. Train the system such that the recommender optimizes for accuracy while the adversary fails to predict popularity, thereby enforcing fairness.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, and a Popularity Bias Metric as defined in recent literature.
- **Expected Outcome:** Reduction in popularity bias and increased diversity in recommendations with only a slight decrease in traditional accuracy metrics, validating the role of adversarial training in promoting fairness.

These experiments align well with our research objectives by exploring advanced methodologies to tackle popularity bias. Do you have any specific aspects you'd like to refine or additional considerations to incorporate into these experimental designs?
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 Postdoc Dialogue: The following is dialogue produced by the postdoctoral researcher: Thank you for proposing these alternative experiments. They offer fresh perspectives on addressing popularity bias. Let's delve into each one:

**Experiment 1: Causal Inference-Based Re-ranking**
- **Objective:** Utilize causal inference techniques to mitigate popularity bias, enhancing diversity and fairness without significantly impacting accuracy.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Begin with a standard collaborative filtering model, such as Matrix Factorization, to generate initial recommendation scores.
  - **Implementation:** Apply a re-ranking algorithm guided by causal inference to adjust the rankings. This involves identifying and controlling for confounding variables related to item popularity to ensure that less popular items are fairly considered in the final recommendations.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Demographic Parity, and Equal Opportunity.
- **Expected Outcome:** Improved diversity and fairness in recommendations with minimal loss in accuracy metrics, demonstrating the effectiveness of causal adjustments in addressing popularity bias.

**Experiment 2: Adversarial Debiasing in Neural Recommenders**
- **Objective:** Implement adversarial debiasing techniques within a neural recommender system to reduce popularity bias while maintaining high recommendation accuracy.
- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Develop a Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) model enhanced with an adversarial component designed to minimize the influence of item popularity on the recommendation outcomes.
  - **Implementation:** Introduce an adversary network that predicts item popularity from the latent representations generated by the NCF model. Train the system such that the recommender optimizes for accuracy while the adversary fails to predict popularity, thereby enforcing fairness.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, and a Popularity Bias Metric as defined in recent literature.
- **Expected Outcome:** Reduction in popularity bias and increased diversity in recommendations with only a slight decrease in traditional accuracy metrics, validating the role of adversarial training in promoting fairness.

These experiments align well with our research objectives by exploring advanced methodologies to tackle popularity bias. Do you have any specific aspects you'd like to refine or additional considerations to incorporate into these experimental designs? 
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Current experiment cost = $3.462087, ** Approximate values, may not reflect true cost
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PhD Student:  `DIALOGUE
Thank you for your insightful feedback. Building on our objective to reduce popularity bias while enhancing diversity and fairness in recommendations, I propose the following two distinct experiments:

**Experiment 1: Fairness-Constrained Content-Based Filtering**

- **Objective:** Integrate fairness constraints directly into a content-based recommendation system to minimize popularity bias and promote diversity without sacrificing accuracy.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Implement a Content-Based Filtering (CBF) model that recommends items based on item features and user profiles.
  - **Implementation:** 
    - **Feature Engineering:** Extract comprehensive metadata from the MovieLens-Small dataset, such as genres, release year, and ratings.
    - **Fairness Constraints:** Introduce fairness constraints that limit the overrepresentation of popular genres or frequently rated items in the recommendation list. This can be achieved by setting thresholds or employing optimization techniques that balance relevance with fairness.
    - **Optimization:** Use a constrained optimization framework to ensure that the recommendation scores adhere to the predefined fairness constraints while maintaining high relevance scores.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Genre Diversity Index, and Fairness Metrics (e.g., Proportional Representation).

- **Expected Outcome:** Achieve a balanced recommendation system where less popular genres and items receive fair exposure, resulting in increased diversity and fairness with minimal impact on traditional accuracy metrics.

**Experiment 2: Diversity-Promoting Graph-Based Recommendations**

- **Objective:** Leverage graph-based recommendation techniques to inherently promote diversity and reduce popularity bias by exploring the structural properties of the user-item interaction graph.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Develop a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based recommender system that captures complex relationships in the user-item interaction graph.
  - **Implementation:** 
    - **Graph Construction:** Represent the MovieLens-Small dataset as a bipartite graph with users and items as nodes and interactions as edges.
    - **GNN Architecture:** Utilize a GNN architecture (e.g., Graph Convolutional Networks) to learn embeddings that capture both user preferences and item characteristics.
    - **Diversity Enhancement:** Incorporate a diversity-promoting loss function or regularization term that incentivizes the model to recommend a wider variety of items, thereby reducing the emphasis on overly popular items.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Diversity Metrics (e.g., Intra-List Diversity), and Popularity Bias Metrics.

- **Expected Outcome:** The graph-based approach will naturally mitigate popularity bias by capturing nuanced user-item relationships, leading to more diverse and fair recommendations without significantly compromising accuracy.

Do these experimental designs align with our research objectives, or would you suggest further modifications or additional considerations?
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 PhD Dialogue: The following is dialogue produced by the PhD student: Thank you for your insightful feedback. Building on our objective to reduce popularity bias while enhancing diversity and fairness in recommendations, I propose the following two distinct experiments:

**Experiment 1: Fairness-Constrained Content-Based Filtering**

- **Objective:** Integrate fairness constraints directly into a content-based recommendation system to minimize popularity bias and promote diversity without sacrificing accuracy.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Implement a Content-Based Filtering (CBF) model that recommends items based on item features and user profiles.
  - **Implementation:** 
    - **Feature Engineering:** Extract comprehensive metadata from the MovieLens-Small dataset, such as genres, release year, and ratings.
    - **Fairness Constraints:** Introduce fairness constraints that limit the overrepresentation of popular genres or frequently rated items in the recommendation list. This can be achieved by setting thresholds or employing optimization techniques that balance relevance with fairness.
    - **Optimization:** Use a constrained optimization framework to ensure that the recommendation scores adhere to the predefined fairness constraints while maintaining high relevance scores.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Genre Diversity Index, and Fairness Metrics (e.g., Proportional Representation).

- **Expected Outcome:** Achieve a balanced recommendation system where less popular genres and items receive fair exposure, resulting in increased diversity and fairness with minimal impact on traditional accuracy metrics.

**Experiment 2: Diversity-Promoting Graph-Based Recommendations**

- **Objective:** Leverage graph-based recommendation techniques to inherently promote diversity and reduce popularity bias by exploring the structural properties of the user-item interaction graph.

- **Methodology:**
  - **Model:** Develop a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based recommender system that captures complex relationships in the user-item interaction graph.
  - **Implementation:** 
    - **Graph Construction:** Represent the MovieLens-Small dataset as a bipartite graph with users and items as nodes and interactions as edges.
    - **GNN Architecture:** Utilize a GNN architecture (e.g., Graph Convolutional Networks) to learn embeddings that capture both user preferences and item characteristics.
    - **Diversity Enhancement:** Incorporate a diversity-promoting loss function or regularization term that incentivizes the model to recommend a wider variety of items, thereby reducing the emphasis on overly popular items.
  - **Dataset:** MovieLens-Small.
  - **Evaluation Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG, Coverage, Diversity Metrics (e.g., Intra-List Diversity), and Popularity Bias Metrics.

- **Expected Outcome:** The graph-based approach will naturally mitigate popularity bias by capturing nuanced user-item relationships, leading to more diverse and fair recommendations without significantly compromising accuracy.

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Current experiment cost = $3.4865999999999997, ** Approximate values, may not reflect true cost
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Postdoc:  `PLAN
**Research Plan: Reducing Popularity Bias to Enhance Diversity and Fairness in Recommendation Systems**

**Objective:**
Investigate how reducing popularity bias in recommendation systems can improve the diversity and fairness of recommendations while maintaining accuracy. This will be achieved by applying fairness constraints and diversity-promoting techniques using the MovieLens-Small dataset.

**Dataset:**
- **MovieLens-Small:** 100,000 ratings from 943 users on 1,682 movies.

**Experiment 1: Fairness-Constrained Content-Based Filtering**

- **Objective:** Integrate fairness constraints into a content-based recommendation system to minimize popularity bias and promote diversity without sacrificing accuracy.

- **Methodology:**
  1. **Model Selection:** Implement a Content-Based Filtering (CBF) model that utilizes item features (e.g., genres, release year) and user profiles to generate recommendations.
  2. **Feature Engineering:**
     - Extract metadata such as genres, directors, actors, and release years from the dataset.
     - Create user profiles based on their interaction history and preferences.
  3. **Incorporate Fairness Constraints:**
     - Define fairness metrics (e.g., Proportional Representation) to limit the overrepresentation of popular genres or frequently rated items.
     - Apply constrained optimization techniques to balance relevance scores with fairness constraints during the recommendation generation process.
  4. **Implementation Steps:**
     - Develop the CBF model using libraries such as scikit-learn or TensorFlow.
     - Integrate fairness constraints into the recommendation scoring function.
     - Generate and rank recommendations accordingly.

- **Evaluation Metrics:**
  - **Accuracy Metrics:** Precision, Recall, Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG).
  - **Diversity Metrics:** Coverage, Genre Diversity Index.
  - **Fairness Metrics:** Proportional Representation, Demographic Parity.

- **Expected Outcome:**
  Achieve a recommendation system that fairly represents less popular genres and items, enhancing diversity and fairness with minimal impact on traditional accuracy metrics.

**Experiment 2: Diversity-Promoting Graph-Based Recommendations**

- **Objective:** Utilize graph-based recommendation techniques to inherently promote diversity and reduce popularity bias by leveraging the structural properties of the user-item interaction graph.

- **Methodology:**
  1. **Model Selection:** Develop a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based recommender system, such as Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN), to capture complex relationships in the user-item interaction graph.
  2. **Graph Construction:**
     - Represent the MovieLens-Small dataset as a bipartite graph with users and items as nodes and interactions (ratings) as edges.
  3. **Embedding Learning:**
     - Use GNN to learn embeddings for users and items that encapsulate both user preferences and item characteristics.
  4. **Diversity Enhancement:**
     - Incorporate a diversity-promoting loss function or regularization term during training to incentivize the model to recommend a wider variety of items.
     - Techniques such as Determinantal Point Processes (DPP) can be employed to enhance intra-list diversity.
  5. **Implementation Steps:**
     - Utilize deep learning frameworks like PyTorch Geometric or DGL to build and train the GNN model.
     - Integrate diversity-promoting mechanisms into the training objective.
     - Generate recommendations based on the learned embeddings and adjusted scoring.

- **Evaluation Metrics:**
  - **Accuracy Metrics:** Precision, Recall, NDCG.
  - **Diversity Metrics:** Intra-List Diversity, Coverage.
  - **Bias Metrics:** Popularity Bias Metric as defined in recent literature.

- **Expected Outcome:**
  Develop a graph-based recommender system that captures nuanced user-item relationships, resulting in more diverse and fair recommendations by naturally mitigating popularity bias without significantly compromising accuracy.

**Implementation Timeline:**
1. **Weeks 1-2:** Data preprocessing and feature engineering for both experiments.
2. **Weeks 3-5:** Development and training of the Fairness-Constrained Content-Based Filtering model.
3. **Weeks 6-8:** Development and training of the Diversity-Promoting Graph-Based Recommender system.
4. **Weeks 9-10:** Evaluation of both models using the specified metrics.
5. **Weeks 11-12:** Analysis of results, interpretation of findings, and preparation of the research report.

**Resources Required:**
- Access to computational resources (GPUs) for training GNN models.
- Libraries and frameworks: scikit-learn, TensorFlow or PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric/DGL.
- Documentation and prior research papers on fairness and diversity in recommendation systems.

**Potential Challenges:**
- Balancing the trade-off between accuracy and fairness/diversity.
- Selecting appropriate fairness and diversity metrics that align with the research objectives.
- Ensuring the scalability of graph-based models on the MovieLens-Small dataset.

**Conclusion:**
This research aims to advance the understanding of how mitigating popularity bias can enhance the fairness and diversity of recommendation systems. By implementing and evaluating these two distinct approaches, the study will contribute valuable insights into developing more equitable and inclusive recommender systems. 
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