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In practice, users of a Recommender System (RS) fall into a few clusters based on their preferences. In this work, we conduct a systematic study on user-cluster targeted data poisoning attacks on Matrix Factorisation (MF) based RS, where an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sulthana Shams , Douglas Leith

Visually-aware recommender systems have found widespread application in domains where visual elements significantly contribute to the inference of users' potential preferences. While the incorporation of visual information holds the promise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Lijian Chen , Wei Yuan , Tong Chen , Guanhua Ye , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

This paper is an extended version of [Burashnikova et al., 2021, arXiv: 2012.06910], where we proposed a theoretically supported sequential strategy for training a large-scale Recommender System (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Franck Iutzeler , Massih-Reza Amini

Recommender systems play a crucial role in helping users to find their interested information in various web services such as Amazon, YouTube, and Google News. Various recommender systems, ranging from neighborhood-based,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hai Huang , Jiaming Mu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Qi Li , Bin Liu , Mingwei Xu

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that find samples close to the original image but can make the model misclassify. Even with access only to the model's output, an attacker can employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Quang H. Nguyen , Yingjie Lao , Tung Pham , Kok-Seng Wong , Khoa D. Doan

Visual reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable progress in visual control and robotics, but its vulnerability to adversarial perturbations remains underexplored. Most existing black-box attacks focus on vector-based or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tairan Huang , Yulin Jin , Junxu Liu , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Recent research on reinforcement learning (RL) has suggested that trained agents are vulnerable to maliciously crafted adversarial samples. In this work, we show how such samples can be generalised from White-box and Grey-box attacks to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Han Cui , Xitong Gao , Robert Mullins , Ross Anderson

Recommendation Systems (RS) have become an essential part of many online services. Due to its pivotal role in guiding customers towards purchasing, there is a natural motivation for unscrupulous parties to spoof RS for profits. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chen Lin , Si Chen , Hui Li , Yanghua Xiao , Lianyun Li , Qian Yang

Deep learning is a powerful weapon to boost application performance in many fields, including face recognition, object detection, image classification, natural language understanding, and recommendation system. With the rapid increase in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Hongchen Cao , Shuai Li , Yuming Zhou , Ming Fan , Xuejiao Zhao , Yutian Tang

Adversarial attacks have threatened the application of deep neural networks in security-sensitive scenarios. Most existing black-box attacks fool the target model by interacting with it many times and producing global perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tao Xiang , Hangcheng Liu , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofeng Liao

Traffic state prediction is necessary for many Intelligent Transportation Systems applications. Recent developments of the topic have focused on network-wide, multi-step prediction, where state of the art performance is achieved via deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bibek Poudel , Weizi Li

Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker injects fake…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Minghong Fang , Guolei Yang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jia Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known for their vulnerability to adversarial examples. These are examples that have undergone small, carefully crafted perturbations, and which can easily fool a DNN into making misclassifications at test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Linxi Jiang , Xingjun Ma , Shaoxiang Chen , James Bailey , Yu-Gang Jiang

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have been widely explored recently due to their ability to protect user data privacy. In FedRecs, a central server collaboratively learns recommendation models by sharing model public parameters with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Wei Yuan , Shilong Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Recently, the powerful large language models (LLMs) have been instrumental in propelling the progress of recommender systems (RS). However, while these systems have flourished, their susceptibility to security threats has been largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jinghao Zhang , Yuting Liu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Guibing Guo , Liang Wang

Deep Learning has become popular due to its vast applications in almost all domains. However, models trained using deep learning are prone to failure for adversarial samples and carry a considerable risk in sensitive applications. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Satyadwyoom Kumar , Saurabh Gupta , Arun Balaji Buduru

Face recognition has obtained remarkable progress in recent years due to the great improvement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can cause fateful consequences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Zhu

Machine learning models are currently being deployed in a variety of real-world applications where model predictions are used to make decisions about healthcare, bank loans, and numerous other critical tasks. As the deployment of artificial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Yuxin Ma , Tiankai Xie , Jundong Li , Ross Maciejewski

Online recommendation systems make use of a variety of information sources to provide users the items that users are potentially interested in. However, due to the openness of the online platform, recommendation systems are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hengtong Zhang , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Jing Gao

Despite our best efforts, deep learning models remain highly vulnerable to even tiny adversarial perturbations applied to the inputs. The ability to extract information from solely the output of a machine learning model to craft adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe