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Recommendation systems form the center piece of a rapidly growing trillion dollar online advertisement industry. Even with numerous optimizations and approximations, collaborative filtering (CF) based approaches require real-time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Theja Tulabandhula , Shailesh Vaya , Aritra Dhar

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

Federated recommendations leverage the federated learning (FL) techniques to make privacy-preserving recommendations. Though recent success in the federated recommender system, several vital challenges remain to be addressed: (i) The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Sichun Luo , Yuanzhang Xiao , Yang Liu , Congduan Li , Linqi Song

With the growing concerns regarding user data privacy, Federated Recommender System (FedRec) has garnered significant attention recently due to its privacy-preserving capabilities. Existing FedRecs generally adhere to a learning protocol in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Wei Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Liang Qu , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Jianxin Li , Hongzhi Yin

Recommender systems often rely on graph-based filters, such as normalized item-item adjacency matrices and low-pass filters. While effective, the centralized computation of these components raises concerns about privacy, security, and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Mark Coates

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most commonly used recommendation methods. CF consists in predicting whether, or how much, a user will like (or dislike) an item by leveraging the knowledge of the user's preferences as well as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Esther Pacitti , Maximilien Servajean , Florent Masseglia , Amr El Abbadi

Integrating Foundation Models (FMs) into recommendation systems is an emerging and promising research direction. However, centralized paradigms face growing pressure from privacy concerns and strict regulatory requirements. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Chunxu Zhang , Honglei Zhang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Federated recommender system (FRS), which enables many local devices to train a shared model jointly without transmitting local raw data, has become a prevalent recommendation paradigm with privacy-preserving advantages. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Honglei Zhang , Fangyuan Luo , Jun Wu , Xiangnan He , Yidong Li

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Ranking aggregation is commonly adopted in cooperative decision-making to assist in combining multiple rankings into a single representative. To protect the actual ranking of each individual, some privacy-preserving strategies, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Baobao Song , Qiujun Lan , Yang Li , Gang Li

Recommender systems are crucial to alleviate the information overload problem in online worlds. Most of the modern recommender systems capture users' preference towards items via their interactions based on collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Dawei Yin , Jianping Wang , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

Sequential recommender systems have made significant progress. Recently, due to increasing concerns about user data privacy, some researchers have implemented federated learning for sequential recommendation, a.k.a., Federated Sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Wei Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Liang Qu , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Guanhua Ye , Hongzhi Yin

Recommender systems have shown to be a successful representative of how data availability can ease our everyday digital life. However, data privacy is one of the most prominent concerns in the digital era. After several data breaches and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Antonio Ferrara , Fedelucio Narducci

Points of interest (POI) recommendation has been drawn much attention recently due to the increasing popularity of location-based networks, e.g., Foursquare and Yelp. Among the existing approaches to POI recommendation, Matrix Factorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Chaochao Chen , Ziqi Liu , Peilin Zhao , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li

Federated Learning (FL) solutions with central Differential Privacy (DP) have seen large improvements in their utility in recent years arising from the matrix mechanism, while FL solutions with distributed (more private) DP have lagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Alexander Bienstock , Ujjwal Kumar , Antigoni Polychroniadou

Machine learning methods allow us to make recommendations to users in applications across fields including entertainment, dating, and commerce, by exploiting similarities in users' interaction patterns. However, in domains that demand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mónica Ribero , Jette Henderson , Sinead Williamson , Haris Vikalo

Federated learning (FL) is a type of collaborative machine learning where participating peers/clients process their data locally, sharing only updates to the collaborative model. This enables to build privacy-aware distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Filippo Galli , Sayan Biswas , Kangsoo Jung , Tommaso Cucinotta , Catuscia Palamidessi

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm for large-scale distributed learning which faces two key challenges: (i) efficient training from highly heterogeneous user data, and (ii) protecting the privacy of participating users. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Maxence Noble , Aurélien Bellet , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Decentralized learning is an efficient emerging paradigm for boosting the computing capability of multiple bounded computing agents. In the big data era, performing inference within the distributed and federated learning (DL and FL)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mohamed Ridha Znaidi , Gaurav Gupta , Paul Bogdan

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have emerged as a popular research direction for protecting users' privacy in on-device recommendations. In FedRecs, users keep their data locally and only contribute their local collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Chaoqun Yang , Wei Yuan , Liang Qu , Thanh Tam Nguyen