Balanced News Using Constrained Bandit-based Personalization

06/24/2018
by   Sayash Kapoor, et al.
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We present a prototype for a news search engine that presents balanced viewpoints across liberal and conservative articles with the goal of de-polarizing content and allowing users to escape their filter bubble. The balancing is done according to flexible user-defined constraints, and leverages recent advances in constrained bandit optimization. We showcase our balanced news feed by displaying it side-by-side with the news feed produced by a traditional (polarized) feed.

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