---
title: "recommendation-induced congestion"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "term"
status: "watching"
canonical_name: "recommendation-induced congestion"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["matching markets","recommender systems","NYC high school match"]
seek_code_commit: "379c8e7"
---


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.

## References
- [[claim-recommendation-induced-congestion-erodes-offer-likelihood-guarantees]]