news recommenders

Democratizing News Recommenders: Modeling Multiple Perspectives for News Candidate Generation with VQ-VAE

News Recommender Systems (NRS) play a central role in society They shape what users read, whose perspectives they encounter, and influence public discourse. Yet their design is value-laden: intentionally or not, NRS can embed undesired values in …

Leveraging Media Frames to Improve Normative Diversity in News Recommendations

Click-based news recommender systems suggest users content that aligns with their existing history, limiting the diversity of articles they encounter. Recent advances in aspect-based diversification — adding features such as sentiments or news …