ISSTA 2025
Wed 25 - Sat 28 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
co-located with FSE 2025
Wed 25 Jun 2025 11:50 - 12:15 at Cosmos 3A - Fairness and LLM Testing Chair(s): Andreas Metzger

Recommender systems play an increasingly important role in modern society, powering digital platforms that suggest a wide array of content, from news and music to job listings, and influencing many aspects of daily life. To improve personalization, these systems often use demographic information. However, ensuring fairness in recommendation quality across demographic groups is challenging, especially since recommender systems are susceptible to the ``rich get richer'' Matthew effect due to user feedback loops. With the adoption of deep learning algorithms, uncovering fairness issues has become even more complex. Researchers have started to explore methods for identifying the most disadvantaged user groups using optimization algorithms. Despite this, suboptimal disadvantaged groups remain underexplored, which leaves the risk of bias amplification due to the Matthew effect unaddressed. In this paper, we argue for the necessity of identifying both the most disadvantaged and suboptimal disadvantaged groups. We introduce \textbf{FairAS}, an adaptive sampling based approach, to achieve this goal. Through evaluations on four deep recommender systems and six datasets, FairAS demonstrates an average improvement of 19.2% in identifying the most disadvantaged groups over the state-of-the-art fairness testing approach (FairRec), while reducing testing time by 43.07%. Additionally, the extra suboptimal disadvantaged groups identified by FairAS help improve system fairness, achieving an average improvement of 70.27% over FairRec across all subjects.

Wed 25 Jun

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11:00 - 12:15
Fairness and LLM TestingResearch Papers at Cosmos 3A
Chair(s): Andreas Metzger University of Duisburg-Essen
11:00
25m
Talk
Fairness Mediator: Neutralize Stereotype Associations to Mitigate Bias in Large Language Models
Research Papers
Yisong Xiao Beihang University, Aishan Liu Beihang University; Institute of Dataspace, Siyuan Liang National University of Singapore, Xianglong Liu Beihang University; Institute of Dataspace; Zhongguancun Laboratory, Dacheng Tao Nanyang Technological University
DOI
11:25
25m
Talk
ClassEval-T: Evaluating Large Language Models in Class-Level Code Translation
Research Papers
Pengyu Xue Shandong University, Linhao Wu Shandong University, Zhen Yang Shandong University, Chengyi Wang Shandong University, Xiang Li Shandong University, Yuxiang Zhang Shandong University, Jia Li Tsinghua University, Ruikai Jin Shandong University, Yifei Pei Shandong University, Zhaoyan Shen Shandong University, Xiran Lyu Shandong University, Jacky Keung City University of Hong Kong
DOI
11:50
25m
Talk
No Bias Left Behind: Fairness Testing for Deep Recommender Systems Targeting General Disadvantaged Groups
Research Papers
Zhuo Wu Tianjin International Engineering Institute, Tianjin University, Zan Wang Tianjin University, Chuan Luo Beihang University, Xiaoning Du Monash University, Junjie Chen Tianjin University
DOI

Information for Participants
Wed 25 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:15 at Cosmos 3A - Fairness and LLM Testing Chair(s): Andreas Metzger
Info for room Cosmos 3A:

Cosmos 3A is the first room in the Cosmos 3 wing.

When facing the main Cosmos Hall, access to the Cosmos 3 wing is on the left, close to the stairs. The area is accessed through a large door with the number “3”, which will stay open during the event.

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