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In this study, we propose a novel SeqMF model to solve the problem of predicting the next app launch during mobile device usage. Although this problem can be represented as a classical collaborative filtering problem, it requires proper…

A key feature of federated learning (FL) is to preserve the data privacy of end users. However, there still exist potential privacy leakage in exchanging gradients under FL. As a result, recent research often explores the differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Yanghe Pan , Tom H Luan , Ruidong Li , Shui Yu

Privacy issues of recommender systems have become a hot topic for the society as such systems are appearing in every corner of our life. In contrast to the fact that many secure multi-party computation protocols have been proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Jun Wang , Qiang Tang

Preserving privacy and reducing communication costs for edge users pose significant challenges in recommendation systems. Although federated learning has proven effective in protecting privacy by avoiding data exchange between clients and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Lin Wang , Zhichao Wang , Xi Leng , Xiaoying Tang

The increasing digitalization of education presents unprecedented opportunities for data-driven personalization, but it also introduces significant challenges to student data privacy. Conventional recommender systems rely on centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rodrigo Tertulino , Ricardo Almeida

Recommender systems can be privacy-sensitive. To protect users' private historical interactions, federated learning has been proposed in distributed learning for user representations. Using federated recommender (FedRec) systems, users can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qi Hu , Yangqiu Song

Machine learning models used for distributed architectures consisting of servers and clients require large amounts of data to achieve high accuracy. Data obtained from clients are collected on a central server for model training. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ozer Ozturk , Busra Buyuktanir , Gozde Karatas Baydogmus , Kazim Yildiz

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train a global model using local private data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that conventional FL algorithms still exhibit deficiencies in privacy protection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruiyang Wang , Rong Pan , Zhengan Yao

This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wenjing Wei , Farid Nait-Abdesselam , Alla Jammine

Federated recommender systems have distinct advantages in terms of privacy protection over traditional recommender systems that are centralized at a data center. However, previous work on federated recommender systems does not fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yujie Lin , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Dongxiao Yu , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke , Xiuzhen Cheng

Modern multi-layer networks are commonly stored and analyzed in a local and distributed fashion because of the privacy, ownership, and communication costs. The literature on the model-based statistical methods for community detection based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiao Guo , Xiang Li , Xiangyu Chang , Shujie Ma

Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems are typically trained based on personal interaction data (e.g., clicks and purchases) that could be naturally represented as ego graphs. However, most existing recommendation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Liang Qu , Ningzhi Tang , Ruiqi Zheng , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

The growing development of artificial intelligence based solutions, together with privacy legislation, has driven the rise of the so-called privacy preserving machine learning architectures, such as federated learning. While federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a learning method to enable the server to train models over data distributed among various clients. These clients are protective about their data being leaked to the server, any other client, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Uday Bhaskar , Varul Srivastava , Avyukta Manjunatha Vummintala , Naresh Manwani , Sujit Gujar

Federated learning (FL) is a training paradigm where the clients collaboratively learn models by repeatedly sharing information without compromising much on the privacy of their local sensitive data. In this paper, we introduce federated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-24 Qinqing Zheng , Shuxiao Chen , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Cross-platform recommendation aims to improve recommendation accuracy by gathering heterogeneous features from different platforms. However, such cross-silo collaborations between platforms are restricted by increasingly stringent privacy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Sheng Wan , Dashan Gao , Hanlin Gu , Daning Hu

In general, recommendation can be viewed as a matching problem, i.e., match proper items for proper users. However, due to the huge semantic gap between users and items, it's almost impossible to directly match users and items in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhi-Hong Deng , Ling Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have become increasingly popular as a powerful tool for providing personalized recommendation experiences. By directly engaging with users in a conversational manner to learn their current and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Among various recommender techniques, collaborative filtering (CF) is the most successful one. And a key problem in CF is how to represent users and items. Previous works usually represent a user (an item) as a vector of latent factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Gongshan He , Dongxing Zhao , Lixin Ding