recommendation-induced congestion

Term coined in Chiang, Peng, Lichtenstein, McDaniel, O'Neil, Thomas, Wright, Kleinberg, Tardos & Garg, "Personalized Recommendations Without Inducing Congestion" (arXiv:2610.08275, 2026), for the failure mode where a recommender in a capacity-constrained setting becomes self-defeating at scale: steering enough users toward the same scarce items erases the offer-likelihood guarantee the recommendation was originally based on. Watching stub only — first encountered in this one paper; promote to a full hub if the term recurs in later reading.

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