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Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of recommender systems to data privacy attacks. However, research on the threat to model privacy in recommender systems, such as model stealing attacks, is still in its infancy. Some…

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A recommender system is an important subject in the field of data mining, where the item rating information from users is exploited and processed to make suitable recommendations with all other users. The recommender system creates…

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Review-Based Recommender Systems (RBRS) have attracted increasing research interest due to their ability to alleviate well-known cold-start problems. RBRS utilizes reviews to construct the user and items representations. However, in this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Hung-Yun Chiang , Yi-Syuan Chen , Yun-Zhu Song , Hong-Han Shuai , Jason S. Chang

The availability of the high-capacity network, massive storage, hardware virtualization, utility computing, service-oriented architecture leads to high accessibility of cloud computing. The extensive usage of cloud resources causes oodles…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Divyasree I R , Selvamani K , Riasudheen H

Graph recommendation systems have been widely studied due to their ability to effectively capture the complex interactions between users and items. However, these systems also exhibit certain vulnerabilities when faced with attacks. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Runze Li , Di Jin , Xiaobao Wang , Dongxiao He , Bingdao Feng , Zhen Wang

This paper explores recommender systems in social networks which leverage information such as item rating, intra-item similarities, and trust graph. We demonstrate that item-rating information is more influential than other information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Paras Stefanopoulos , Sourin Chatterjee , Ahad N. Zehmakan

In recent years, recommender systems are crucially important for the delivery of personalized services that satisfy users' preferences. With personalized recommendation services, users can enjoy a variety of recommendations such as movies,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Shijie Zhang , Wei Yuan , Hongzhi Yin

Recommender systems are an essential part of any e-commerce platform. Recommendations are typically generated by aggregating large amounts of user data. A malicious actor may be motivated to sway the output of such recommender systems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Behzad Shahrasbi , Venugopal Mani , Apoorv Reddy Arrabothu , Deepthi Sharma , Kannan Achan , Sushant Kumar

Recent studies have shown that recommender systems (RSs) are highly vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. Understanding attack tactics helps improve the robustness of RSs. We intend to develop efficient attack methods that use limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Shiyi Yang , Lina Yao , Chen Wang , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

Federated recommendation (FedRec) preserves user privacy by enabling decentralized training of personalized models, but this architecture is inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Significant research has been conducted on targeted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Qitao Qin , Yucong Luo , Zhibo Chu

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks-based recommender systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where attackers can inject carefully crafted fake user profiles (i.e., a set of items that fake users have interacted with)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jingfan Chen , Wenqi Fan , Guanghui Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao , Chunfeng Yuan , Qing Li , Yihua Huang

In various networks and mobile applications, users are highly susceptible to attribute inference attacks, with particularly prevalent occurrences in recommender systems. Attackers exploit partially exposed user profiles in recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xiaohua Feng , Yuyuan Li , Fengyuan Yu , Ke Xiong , Junjie Fang , Li Zhang , Tianyu Du , Chaochao Chen

User based collaborative filtering (CF) relies on a user and user similarity graph, making it vulnerable to profile injection (shilling) attacks that manipulate neighborhood relations to promote (push) or demote (nuke) target items. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongyu Wang

The robustness of recommender systems has become a prominent topic within the research community. Numerous adversarial attacks have been proposed, but most of them rely on extensive prior knowledge, such as all the white-box attacks or most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sixiao Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Hongxu Chen , Cheng Long

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges for detecting adversarial attacks at an early stage. We propose attack-agnostic detection on reinforcement learning-based interactive recommendation systems. We first craft adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yuanjiang Cao , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wei Emma Zhang

Federated recommender systems (FedRec) have emerged as a promising approach to provide personalized recommendations while protecting user privacy. However, recent studies have shown their vulnerability to poisoning attacks, where malicious…

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Graph-based classification methods are widely used for security and privacy analytics. Roughly speaking, graph-based classification methods include collective classification and graph neural network. Evading a graph-based classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

The trend of data mining using deep learning models on graph neural networks has proven effective in identifying object features through signal encoders and decoders, particularly in recommendation systems utilizing collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Manh Mai Van , Tin T. Tran

Federated recommendation (FedRec) can train personalized recommenders without collecting user data, but the decentralized nature makes it susceptible to poisoning attacks. Most previous studies focus on the targeted attack to promote…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yang Yu , Qi Liu , Likang Wu , Runlong Yu , Sanshi Lei Yu , Zaixi Zhang

Recommendation systems (RS) are crucial for alleviating the information overload problem. Due to its pivotal role in guiding users to make decisions, unscrupulous parties are lured to launch attacks against RS to affect the decisions of…

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