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Post-hoc Provider Fairness Adaptation via Hierarchical Exposure Alignment

sigir26-073 · Full research paper · Jingzhi Li, Zhiyong Cheng, Richang Hong, Meng Wang
Popularity Bias and Long-Tail Debias · 50% Fairness Metrics and Evaluation · 50%
Abstract

Provider exposure fairness is crucial for sustaining a healthy content ecosystem and preventing monopolization in recommender systems. Yet, most existing methods either incorporate fairness constraints during model training, requiring expensive retraining when fairness objectives change, or rely on post-hoc reranking with fixed criteria, which lacks adaptability to diverse fairness requirements. To overcome these limitations, we propose Post-hoc Fairness Adaptation (PFA), a lightweight framework that equips a frozen recommender with a fairness adapter, enabling flexible fairness control without retraining the backbone model. Specifically, the fairness adapter learns personalized additive score adjustments from user–item embeddings, which are injected into the original ranking scores to steer provider exposure toward fairness. To train the adapter, we minimize the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the actual and the target fair exposure distributions. However, this global objective implicitly treats all providers equally, ignoring structural disparities such as imbalanced provider group sizes and heterogeneous exposure within groups. Consequently, fairness may appear satisfied at an aggregate level while severe inter-group and intra-group exposure imbalances persist, undermining practical fairness. To address this, we design Hierarchical Exposure Fairness Alignment (HEFA), which explicitly balances inter- and intra-group provider exposure disparities, enabling flexible adaptation to diverse fairness requirements. To mitigate potential accuracy degradation, PFA jointly optimizes HEFA with a differentiable NDCG loss, enabling end-to-end fairness optimization while preserving ranking quality. Extensive experiments on three public datasets demonstrate that PFA achieves substantial fairness gains with negligible accuracy loss, consistently outperforming strong baselines. Code is available at https://github.com/Tam-JQK/Post-train.

Assigned reviewers

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1 Zechun Niu
49
59 Addressing Personalized Bias for Unbiased Learning to Rank (2025) Unbiased Learning to Rank
45 Distributionally Robust Optimization for Unbiased Learning to Rank (2025) Unbiased Learning to Rank
43 Investigating the Robustness of Counterfactual Learning to Rank Models: A Reproducibility Study (2025) Unbiased Learning to Rank
2 Yimeng Bai
47
70 Recommendation Unlearning via Influence Function (2025) Efficient Training and Data Optimization
43 LabelCraft: Empowering Short Video Recommendations with Automated Label Crafting (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
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Area chair

Area chairMatch
Xin Xin 0003 42
Area-chair candidates (4)
Xin Xin 0003 assigned 4210 papers
Yanan Niu COI: co-author 3915 papers
Pengyue Jia 3710 papers
Kun Gai COI: co-author 375 papers

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