SPADE: Escaping the Popularity-Similarity Frontier to Measure Serendipitous Recommendations
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arXiv:2609.31164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recommender systems engineer serendipity to foster active exploration and break predictable consumption cycles. The problem with existing offline beyond-accuracy metrics is that they often either isolate historical similarity or global popularity. We aim to design an evaluation metric that examines similarity, popularity, and actual user relevance. To achieve this, we introduce SPADE (Serendipitous Pareto Distance Evaluation). SPADE maps all items into a two-dimensional space to directly calculate a user-specific Pareto frontier of maximally po
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- arXiv:2609.31164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recommender systems engineer serendipity to foster active exploration and break predictable consumption cycles.
- The problem with existing offline beyond-accuracy metrics is that they often either isolate historical similarity or global popularity.
- We aim to design an evaluation metric that examines similarity, popularity, and actual user relevance.
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