Evaluating Recommender System Stability with Influence-Guided Fuzzing. Shriver, D., Elbaum, S., Dwyer, M. B, & Rosenblum, D. S In 2019. AAAI.
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Recommender systems help users to find products or services they may like when lacking personal experience or facing an overwhelming set of choices. Since unstable recommendations can lead to distrust, loss of profits, and a poor user experience, it is important to test recommender system stability. In this work, we present an approach based on inferred models of influence that underlie recommender systems to guide the generation of dataset modifications to assess a recommender's stability. We implement our approach …

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