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A challenge for rounded evaluation of recommender systems

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The organizers of the EvalRS recommender systems competition argue that accuracy should not be the only goal and explain how they took robustness and fairness into account.

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Fig. 1: A radar chart showcasing performance across the main metric types.

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EvalRS is based on RecList, an open source library whose development is supported by Comet, Neptune and Gantry.

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Tagliabue, J., Bianchi, F., Schnabel, T. et al. A challenge for rounded evaluation of recommender systems. Nat Mach Intell 5, 181–182 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00606-0

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