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8-15x

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Hong Kong Baptist University

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Hong Kong Baptist University

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Hong Kong Baptist University

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Founder's Pitch

"Cofair offers dynamic, post-training fairness control in recommendation systems without retraining."

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0-10 scale

High Potential

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5

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4/4 signals

10

Series A Potential

3/4 signals

7.5

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Why It Matters

This research addresses the inflexible nature of current fairness techniques in recommendation systems, which require retraining for each change in fairness requirements. Cofair allows for dynamic adjustments post-training, saving resources and time.

Product Angle

The product can be a plug-in for existing recommendation systems, enabling businesses to adjust fairness settings as needed without incurring the cost of retraining the models.

Disruption

Cofair can replace current fairness solutions that are rigid and expensive due to their retraining requirements. It provides a flexible, resource-efficient alternative.

Product Opportunity

The market includes any business using recommendation systems, such as e-commerce and streaming platforms, which need to comply with evolving fairness regulations. These businesses will pay to avoid the cost and resource-intensity of repeated model retraining.

Use Case Idea

A SaaS tool for online retailers that allows them to dynamically adjust fairness parameters in their recommendation systems without requiring full model retraining.

Science

The paper presents Cofair, a framework that applies a shared representation layer and fairness-conditioned adapter modules in a recommendation system to allow multiple fairness settings within a single training cycle. User-level regularization ensures each user's fairness does not degrade.

Method & Eval

The framework's effectiveness was tested on multiple datasets and models, showing that it delivers comparable or better fairness-accuracy trade-offs than existing methods, without the need for retraining.

Caveats

The framework predominantly focuses on demographic parity, so integrating other fairness metrics could require adaptation. There might be a modest overhead due to maintaining multiple fairness levels.

Author Intelligence

Weixin Chen

Hong Kong Baptist University
cswxchen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Li Chen

Hong Kong Baptist University
lichen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Yuhan Zhao

Hong Kong Baptist University
csyhzhao@comp.hkbu.edu.hk