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CHIIR 2021 presentation: Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders

Andrés Ferraro will present our joint paper at CHIIR 2021. In the paper with the title Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders, we investigate the imbalance in music recommendations with respect to the artists gender. We propose a simple re-ranking approach to mitigate the problem and show in a simulation of feedback loops how the gender (im-)balances evolves over time.

Summary of ISMIR 2020 Special Session Do we help artists? published in SIGIR Forum

I am glad that my summary of the ISMIR 2020 special session: ‘‘How do we—in MIR research—help artists? Do we?’’ made it to the December 2020 issue of the ACM SIGIR Forum.

The videos of all the ComplexRec2020 workshop talks are online

The videos of all ComplexRec 2020 workshop talks at RecSys 2020—including my keynote—can now be found on the RecSys YouTube channel.


(2020). Ratings in, rankings out. Keep it simple, they said. But we need more than that.. Proceedings of the Recommendation in Complex Scenarios and the Impact of Recommender Systems 2020 (ComplexRec-ImpactRS 2020).

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Tomorrow, panel at VUT Indie Days 2020

I am looking forward to join the panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI at the VUT Indie Days 2020 tomorrow. The panel is scheduled for 13:15 CEST and will be streamed on c/o pop xoxo in channel 1. Although originally planned to be held in English, the discussion will be in German. Maybe a good reason to brush up your German skills ;-)