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Description
Problem:
The rexmex library offers a strong set of metrics for evaluating recommender systems, with a great focus on fairness and coverage. However, it could be enhanced by including metrics that specifically measure the diversity of recommendations. A common scenario is when a recommender is accurate but repeatedly suggests very similar items, leading to a poor user experience and "filter bubble" effects. Measuring diversity is crucial for evaluating how well a model avoids this behavior.
Proposed Solution:
I propose implementing Intra-List Diversity (ILD), a standard "beyond accuracy" metric that measures the average dissimilarity between all pairs of items within a recommendation list. A higher ILD score indicates a more diverse set of recommendations.
Academic References:
This metric is well established in the recommender systems literature. Key references include:
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Vargas, S., & Castells, P. (2011). Novelty and Diversity in Recommender Systems: Choice, Discovery and Relevance. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Recommender systems (RecSys '11).
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Carbonell, J., & Goldstein, J. (1998). The Use of MMR, Diversity-Based Reranking for Reordering Documents and Producing Summaries. In Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference.