Exploitation Over Exploration: Unmasking the Bias in Linear Bandit Recommender Offline Evaluation

Pedro R. Pires, Gregório F. Azevedo, Pietro L. Campos, Rafael T. Sereicikas, Tiago A. Almeida 0001. Exploitation Over Exploration: Unmasking the Bias in Linear Bandit Recommender Offline Evaluation. In Mária Bieliková, Pavel Kordík, Markus Schedl, Marco de Gemmis, Sole Pera, Rodrigo Alves, Olivier Jeunen, Vito Ostuni, editors, Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2025, Prague, Czech Republic, September 22-26, 2025. pages 736-745, ACM, 2025. [doi]

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