The Attention Market: Interpreting Online Fair Re-ranking as Manifold Optimization under Walrasian Equilibrium.

@inproceedings{xu-2026-attention, author = {Chen Xu and Wei Chu and Wenyu Hu and Fengran Mo and Jun Xu and Maarten de Rijke}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{The Attention Market: Interpreting Online Fair Re-ranking as Manifold Optimization under Walrasian Equilibrium}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2107--2117}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809614}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809614} }