Have an idea for an ACM TORS Special Issue? What are you waiting for?
Is there a topic in recommender systems that you think deserves more attention? ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS) welcomes Special Issue proposals year-round. A...
ACM RecSys 2026 Proceedings by the numbers: More Industry, Bigger Teams, More Generative Everything
RecSys, the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, is back in Minneapolis for its 20th edition, and the proceedings are not online. The first RecSys took...
Where extra complexity pays off: five “Just Accepted” papers in ACM TORS
Recommender systems keep gaining components: richer representations, additional graphs, LLM calls, user controls, and multi-agent pipelines. The five latest papers accepted at ACM Transactions on...
What Survives the Stress Test? 18 New Papers from ACM TORS (Vol. 4; Issue 4; December)
The latest issue of ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems brings 18 new papers, including 13 “Highlights of RecSys’24.” Volume 4, Issue 4 covers a broad...
When Defaults Become Research Questions: 10 New ACM TORS Papers
Recommender systems have accumulated a comfortable collection of conventions. Give every user the same number of interest vectors. Evaluate explanations using the first recommendation. Use...
POPROX Brings Recommender-Systems Experiments Out of the Offline Lab (and News Recommendations to Users)
In 2023, we reported on a $2 million NSF project led by Joseph Konstan at the University of Minnesota. The project aimed to build shared...
Thank You for Your Service! Two Decades and 289 Chairs at ACM RecSys
The first post in this series looked at who runs the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys), and how the conference changed as an...
Who Runs ACM RecSys? From 11 to 50+ Chairs in Twenty Years
Most conference statistics count papers, citations, acceptance rates, or attendees. I counted something else: the number of people who make the ACM Conference on Recommender...
Recsperts Didn’t Stop at Episode #20 — I Just Forgot Writing About It
Back in November 2023, I wrote that Recsperts was becoming a constant in the recommender-systems community. The occasion was episode #20, in which Marcel Kurovski...
Robin Burke on Social Choice for Fair Recommendations — and a Recommender-Systems Podcast I Had Missed
A recent episode of Data Skeptic caught my attention: Social Choice for Fair Recommendations, featuring Robin Burke. The 43-minute conversation starts with the history of...