Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals
Summary: Defines 'why-not-yet' for top-k under linear scalarization: find weight vectors that would admit a target into top-k, casting it as satisfiability/optimization with potentially quantified, disjunctive, or negated constraints. Introduces a monotonic-core linear approximation and tunable algorithms to trade runtime for solution quality, demonstrating scalable empirical gains over the state of the art. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,660 | Query Refinement for Diverse Top-k Selection | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.3859487e-05 |
| 10,269 | Database Views as Explanations for Relational Deep Learning | 2026 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,547 | Ranking Indicator Discovery from Very Large Knowledge Graphs | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,819 | GooseDB: A Database Engine that Optimally Refines Top-k Queries to Satisfy Representation Constraints | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,082 | Complex-Path: Effective and Efficient Node Ranking with Paths in Billion-Scale Heterogeneous Graphs | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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