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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

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

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

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

Federated learning (FL), as a type of collaborative machine learning framework, is capable of preserving private data from mobile terminals (MTs) while training the data into useful models. Nevertheless, from a viewpoint of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Federated recommendation addresses the data silo and privacy problems altogether for recommender systems. Current federated recommender systems mainly utilize cryptographic or obfuscation methods to protect the original ratings from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Liu Yang , Junxue Zhang , Di Chai , Leye Wang , Kun Guo , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

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

Collaborative filtering-based recommender systems leverage vast amounts of behavioral user data, which poses severe privacy risks. Thus, often, random noise is added to the data to ensure Differential Privacy (DP). However, to date, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Peter Müllner , Elisabeth Lex , Markus Schedl , Dominik Kowald

Recommendation systems typically require centralized user data, limiting user control and raising privacy concerns. Federated learning offers an alternative by keeping data on-device, but its impact on real user behavior remains largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Manel Slokom , Alejandro Bellogin

Recommender systems are widely used in industry to improve user experience. Despite great success, they have recently been criticized for collecting private user data. Federated Learning (FL) is a new paradigm for learning on distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junyi Li , Heng Huang

To mitigate privacy leakage and performance issues in personalized advertising, this paper proposes a framework that integrates federated learning and differential privacy. The system combines distributed feature extraction, dynamic privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiang Li , Yifan Lin , Yuanzhe Zhang

Recommendation systems rely heavily on users behavioural and preferential data (e.g. ratings, likes) to produce accurate recommendations. However, users experience privacy concerns due to unethical data aggregation and analytical practices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jeyamohan Neera , Xiaomin Chen , Nauman Aslam , Kezhi Wang , Zhan Shu

Collaborative filtering (CF) recommendation algorithms are well-known for their outstanding recommendation performances, but previous researches showed that they could cause privacy leakage for users due to k-nearest neighboring (KNN)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Zhili Chen , Yu Wang , Shun Zhang , Hong Zhong , Lin Chen

In order to provide high-quality recommendations for users, it is desirable to share and integrate multiple datasets held by different parties. However, when sharing such distributed datasets, we need to protect personal and confidential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tomoya Yanagi , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Noriyoshi Sukegawa , Yuichi Takano

One of the concerns users have to confronted when using IPTV system is the information overload that makes it difficult for them to find a suitable content according to their personal preferences. Recommendation service is one of the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Ahmed M. Elmisery , Dmitri Botvich

Federated learning (FL) enables organizations to collaboratively train models without sharing their datasets. Despite this advantage, recent studies show that both client updates and the global model can leak private information, limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rouzbeh Behnia , Jeremiah Birrell , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Kaushik Dutta , Thang Hoang

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for preserving data privacy in recommendation systems by training models locally. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have gained popularity in recommendation tasks due to their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Dezhong Yao , Tongtong Liu , Qi Cao , Hai Jin

The current business model for existing recommender services is centered around the availability of users' personal data at their side whereas consumers have to trust that the recommender service providers will not use their data in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Ahmed M. Elmisery , Seungmin Rho , Dmitri Botvich

Most industrial recommender systems rely on the popular collaborative filtering (CF) technique for providing personalized recommendations to its users. However, the very nature of CF is adversarial to the idea of user privacy, because users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Manoj Reddy Dareddy , Ariyam Das , Junghoo Cho , Carlo Zaniolo