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Sep 2026
When Should Recommender Systems Not Act?
Recommender systems (RSs) can produce useful outcomes, but they can also cause harm. This raises a basic operational question for responsible recommendation: under what conditions should a system withhold the action it would otherwise select? We define justified non-action as withholding this action in favor of an alte...
Julia Neidhardt, T. Kolb, Ahmadou Wagne et al.
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