Best Full Paper

🏅 You Don’t Bring Me Flowers: Mitigating Unwanted Recommendations Through Conformal Risk Control
by Giovanni De Toni, Erasmo Purificato, Emilia Gomez, Andrea Passerini, Bruno Lepri, Cristian Consonni

Nominees:

• A Non-Parametric Choice Model That Learns How Users Choose Between Recommended Options
  by Thorsten Krause, Harrie Oosterhuis
• IP2: Entity-Guided Interest Probing for Personalized News Recommendation
  by Youlin Wu,Yuanyuan Sun, Xiaokun Zhang, Haoxi Zhan, Bo Xu, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin
• Multi-Granularity Distribution Modeling for Video Watch Time Prediction via Exponential-Gaussian Mixture Network
  by Xu Zhao, Ruibo Ma, Jiaqi Chen, Weiqi Zhao, Ping Yang, Yao Hu
• Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning for Matching Markets
  by Yudai Hayashi, Shuhei, Yuta

Best Short Paper

🏅 Beyond Top-1: Addressing Inconsistencies in Evaluating Counterfactual Explanations for Recommender Systems
by Amir Reza Mohammadi, Andreas Peintner, Michael Müller, Eva Zangerle

Nominees:

• Biases in LLM-Generated Musical Taste Profiles for Recommendation
  by Bruno Sguerra, Elena Epure, Harin Lee, Manuel Moussallam
• Emotion Vector-Based Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Age-Aware Teenage Book Recommendations
  by Kate Hill, Yiu-Kai Ng, Joey Sherrill

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• Toine Bogers
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Distinguished PC Members

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• Ádám Tibor Czapp
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• Oleg Lesota
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• Robin Verachtert
• Roger Zhe Li
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• Vadim Stotland
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• Potito Aghilar
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