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We present a systematic study of provider-side data poisoning in retrieval-augmented recommender systems (RAG-based). By modifying only a small fraction of tokens within item descriptions -- for instance, adding emotional keywords or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Fatemeh Nazary , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio

Information has exploded on the Internet and mobile with the advent of the big data era. In particular, recommendation systems are widely used to help consumers who struggle to select the best products among such a large amount of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Mirae Kim , Simon Woo

Recommender systems have become an integral part of online services to help users locate specific information in a sea of data. However, existing studies show that some recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Thanh Toan Nguyen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Matthias Weidlich , Hongzhi Yin

Deep learning-based time series models are being extensively utilized in engineering and manufacturing industries for process control and optimization, asset monitoring, diagnostic and predictive maintenance. These models have shown great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Arghya Basak , Pradeep Rathore , Sri Harsha Nistala , Sagar Srinivas , Venkataramana Runkana

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been proven its efficiency in capturing users' dynamic interests in recent literature. However, training a DRL agent is challenging, because of the sparse environment in recommender systems (RS), DRL…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xiaocong Chen , Siyu Wang , Lina Yao , Lianyong Qi , Yong Li

Recommending novel content, which expands user horizons by introducing them to new interests, has been shown to improve users' long-term experience on recommendation platforms \cite{chen2021values}. Users however are not constantly looking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Pan Li , Yuyan Wang , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

Recommender Systems (RSs) are exploited by various business enterprises to suggest their products (items) to consumers (users). Collaborative filtering (CF) is a widely used variant of RSs which learns hidden patterns from user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nikita Baidya , Bidyut Kr. Patra , Ratnakar Dash

In this work we present a formal theoretical framework for assessing and analyzing two classes of malevolent action towards generic Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Our results apply to general multi-class classifiers that map from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ivan Y. Tyukin , Desmond J. Higham , Alexander N. Gorban

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Recommender systems (RSs) have become an inseparable part of our everyday lives. They help us find our favorite items to purchase, our friends on social networks, and our favorite movies to watch. Traditionally, the recommendation problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 M. Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

Recommendation is one of the critical applications that helps users find information relevant to their interests. However, a malicious attacker can infer users' private information via recommendations. Prior work obfuscates user-item data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ghazaleh Beigi , Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Ruocheng Guo , Hamidreza Alvari , Alexander Nou , Huan Liu

Personalized recommendation systems (RS) are extensively used in many services. Many of these are based on learning algorithms where the RS uses the recommendation history and the user response to learn an optimal strategy. Further, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Rahul Meshram , D. Manjunath , Nikhil Karamchandani

Recommender systems leverage user demographic information, such as age, gender, etc., to personalize recommendations and better place their targeted ads. Oftentimes, users do not volunteer this information due to privacy concerns, or due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Smriti Bhagat , Udi Weinsberg , Stratis Ioannidis , Nina Taft

Recommender systems have been widely deployed across various domains such as e-commerce and social media, and intelligently suggest items like products and potential friends to users based on their preferences and interaction history, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xiaoxiao Chi , Xuyun Zhang , Yan Wang , Hongsheng Hu , Wanchun Dou

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

Popular User-Review Social Networks (URSNs)---such as Dianping, Yelp, and Amazon---are often the targets of reputation attacks in which fake reviews are posted in order to boost or diminish the ratings of listed products and services. These…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Haizhong Zheng , Minhui Xue , Hao Lu , Shuang Hao , Haojin Zhu , Xiaohui Liang , Keith Ross

The growing prospect of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) being used in cyber-physical systems has raised concerns around safety and robustness of autonomous agents. Recent work on generating adversarial attacks have shown that it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Aaron J. Havens , Zhanhong Jiang , Soumik Sarkar

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments on social recommendation techniques for improving the performance of recommender systems due to the growing influence of social networks to our daily life. The majority of existing social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Wenqi Fan , Tyler Derr , Yao Ma , Jianping Wang , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become an appealing solution to algorithmic trading such as high frequency trading of stocks and cyptocurrencies. However, DRL have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. It follows that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Yaser Faghan , Nancirose Piazza , Vahid Behzadan , Ali Fathi

Unlearnable example attacks are data poisoning techniques that can be used to safeguard public data against unauthorized use for training deep learning models. These methods add stealthy perturbations to the original image, thereby making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Tianrui Qin , Xitong Gao , Juanjuan Zhao , Kejiang Ye , Cheng-Zhong Xu