no code implementations • 29 Jan 2022 • Gourab K Patro, Lorenzo Porcaro, Laura Mitchell, Qiuyue Zhang, Meike Zehlike, Nikhil Garg
Ranking, recommendation, and retrieval systems are widely used in online platforms and other societal systems, including e-commerce, media-streaming, admissions, gig platforms, and hiring.
1 code implementation • 26 Dec 2021 • Arpita Biswas, Gourab K Patro, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P. Gummadi, Abhijnan Chakraborty
Many online platforms today (such as Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, LinkedIn, and AirBnB) can be thought of as two-sided markets with producers and customers of goods and services.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2020 • Ashmi Banerjee, Gourab K Patro, Linus W. Dietz, Abhijnan Chakraborty
Online platforms like Google and Yelp allow location-based search in the form of nearby feature to query for hotels or restaurants in the vicinity.
1 code implementation • 10 Nov 2020 • Aadi Swadipto Mondal, Rakesh Bal, Sayan Sinha, Gourab K Patro
Analysing the results obtained from voting rule-based recommendation, we find that while the well-known voting rules are better from the user side, they show high bias values and clearly not suitable for organisational requirements of the platforms.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2020 • Gourab K Patro, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P. Gummadi
We show that the welfare and fairness objectives can be in conflict with each other, and there is a need to maintain a balance between these objective while caring for them simultaneously.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2020 • Jessie Finocchiaro, Roland Maio, Faidra Monachou, Gourab K Patro, Manish Raghavan, Ana-Andreea Stoica, Stratis Tsirtsis
Decision-making systems increasingly orchestrate our world: how to intervene on the algorithmic components to build fair and equitable systems is therefore a question of utmost importance; one that is substantially complicated by the context-dependent nature of fairness and discrimination.
2 code implementations • 25 Feb 2020 • Gourab K Patro, Arpita Biswas, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P. Gummadi, Abhijnan Chakraborty
We investigate the problem of fair recommendation in the context of two-sided online platforms, comprising customers on one side and producers on the other.