arxivcs.IRcs.AIcs.HC2026-07-21
Mitigating Matthew Effect: Multi-Hypergraph Boosted Multi-Interest Self-Supervised Learning for Conversational Recommendation
Yongsen Zheng, Ruilin Xu, Guohua Wang, Liang Lin, Kwok-Yan Lam
The Matthew effect is a big challenge in Recommender Systems (RSs), where popular items tend to receive increasing attention, while less popular ones are often overlooked, perpetuating existing disparities. Although many existing methods attempt to mitigate Matthew effect in the…