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Poster

Relaxing the Accurate Imputation Assumption in Doubly Robust Learning for Debiased Recommendation

Haoxuan Li · Chunyuan Zheng · Shuyi Wang · Kunhan Wu · Eric Wang · Peng Wu · zhi geng · Xu Chen · Xiao-Hua Zhou


Abstract:

Recommender system aims to recommend items or information that may be of interest to users based on their behaviors and preferences. However, there may be sampling selection bias in the process of data collection, i.e., the collected data is not a representative of the target population. Many debiasing methods are developed based on pseudo-labelings. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of these methods relies heavily on accurate pseudo-labelings (i.e., the imputed labels), which is difficult to satisfy in practice. In this paper, we theoretically propose several novel doubly robust estimators that are unbiased when either (a) the pseudo-labelings deviate from the true labels with an arbitrary user-specific inductive bias, item-specific inductive bias, or a combination of both, or (b) the learned propensities are accurate. We further propose a principled propensity reconstruction learning approach that adaptively updates the constraint weights using an attention mechanism and effectively controls the variance. Extensive experiments show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art on one semi-synthetic and three real-world datasets.

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