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January 19, 2025
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Use of conditional generative adversarial networks to create demographic collaborative filtering datasets

Publicated to: APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING. 169 112608- - 2025-01-01 169(), DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2024.112608

Authors:

Bobadilla, J; Gutiérrez, A
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Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctra Valencia Km 7, Madrid 28031, Spain - Author

Abstract

This paper proposes a method to create synthetic collaborative filtering datasets that can be used to test both current and new fair recommender systems models. The proposed "Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Recommender Systems (CGANRS)" method generalizes the existing generative adversarial network for recommender systems one, and it makes use of a conditional generative adversarial network to artificially generate synthetic profiles from a source dataset such as MovieLens. The created datasets can be parameterized to have different sizes and to include different number of users and items. Additionally, the provided parameters include the proportion of multi-categorical demographic information such as the number of male vs. female users, or the proportions of very young, young, adult, and senior users. To test the proposed method, three sets of synthetic databases have been created, containing different a) numbers of users, b) numbers of items, and c) proportions of male users versus female users. Results show an adequate behavior of the generated datasets, testing their a) profiles separability, b) main statistical distributions, and c) recommendation accuracies. Synthetic data sets created using the proposed conditional generative adversarial network for recommender systems method are particularly useful to improve research in the fairness field of the recommender systems area. To extend its use and to facilitate reproducibility, the source code is provided to generate as many demographic datasets as desired, as well as the artificially generated datasets in this research. Some promising future works are proposed, including a) the variation of the stochastic Gaussian distribution used to create the random noise vectors that feed the adversarial network generator model, and b) testing the fairness of the most relevant collaborative filtering models on different synthetic scenarios.
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Keywords

'currentAdversarial machine learningAdversarial networksCganrsCollaborative filteringConditional generative adversarial networkConditional generative adversarial network for recommender systemConditional generative adversarial networksFairnessGenerative adversarial networksMovielensRecommender systemsSynthetic datasetSynthetic datasetsSystem methodsSystem modelsWiener filtering

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 24/177, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications.

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Impact and social visibility

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/91904/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (BOBADILLA SANCHO, JESUS) and Last Author (GUTIERREZ RODRIGUEZ, ABRAHAM).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been BOBADILLA SANCHO, JESUS.

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Awards linked to the item

This work was partially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion of Spain under the project PID2019-106493RB-I00 (DL-CEMG) and the Comunidad de Madrid under Convenio Plurianual with the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in the actuation line of Programa de Excelencia para el Profesorado Universitario.
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