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Algorithmic Collective Action in Recommender Systems: Promoting Songs by Reordering Playlists

Songs — Small collectives can hugely amplify a target song relative to its frequency in the training data.

This work examines how small collectives can amplify recommendations for a targeted song in transformer-based recommender systems with minimal platform performance impact, revealing non-adversarial yet effective strategies that raise broader questions about incentives and social dynamics [].

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Celestine Mendler-Dünner

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Social Foundations of Computation Algorithms and Society Conference Paper Algorithmic Collective Action in Recommender Systems: Promoting Songs by Reordering Playlists Baumann, J., Mendler-Dünner, C. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024) , The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX