[Paper] Are We Really Making Much Progress?
Photo Credit Introduction Today we’re examining this very interesting and alarming paper in the field of recommender systems — Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches. It also has an extended version still under review — A Troubling Analysis of Reproducibility and Progress in Recommender Systems Research. The first author of the papers also gave an overview and answered some questions to the first paper in this YouTube video (he also mentioned some of the contents in the extended version, e.g., the information leakage problem): ...