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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

Recommender system is an essential component of web services to engage users. Popular recommender systems model user preferences and item properties using a large amount of crowdsourced user-item interaction data, e.g., rating scores; then…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jia Liu

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

Recommender systems play a central role in digital platforms by providing personalized content. They often use methods such as collaborative filtering and machine learning to accurately predict user preferences. Although these systems offer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zihao Wang , Tianhao Mao , XiaoFeng Wang , Di Tang , Xiaozhong Liu

Nowadays, more and more news readers tend to read news online where they have access to millions of news articles from multiple sources. In order to help users to find the right and relevant content, news recommender systems (NRS) are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Shaina Raza , Chen Ding

Federated recommendation is a prominent use case within federated learning, yet it remains susceptible to various attacks, from user to server-side vulnerabilities. Poisoning attacks are particularly notable among user-side attacks, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ming Yin , Yichang Xu , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Nowadays, collaborative filtering recommender systems have been widely deployed in many commercial companies to make profit. Neighbourhood-based collaborative filtering is common and effective. To date, despite its effectiveness, there has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Chen , Yangjun Xu , Fenfang Xie , Min Huang , Zibin Zheng

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) excel in capturing users' dynamic interests, thus playing a key role in various industrial applications. The popularity of SRSs has also driven emerging research on their security aspects, where data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yuchuan Zhao , Tong Chen , Junliang Yu , Kai Zheng , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin

Modern recommender systems (RS) have profoundly enhanced user experience across digital platforms, yet they face significant threats from poisoning attacks. These attacks, aimed at manipulating recommendation outputs for unethical gains,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zongwei Wang , Junliang Yu , Min Gao , Wei Yuan , Guanhua Ye , Shazia Sadiq , Hongzhi Yin

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have attracted considerable attention in information retrieval. Unfortunately, NRMs may inherit the adversarial vulnerabilities of general neural networks, which might be leveraged by black-hat search engine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Wei Chen , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

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

Modern recommender systems (RS) have seen substantial success, yet they remain vulnerable to malicious activities, notably poisoning attacks. These attacks involve injecting malicious data into the training datasets of RS, thereby…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Junliang Yu , Hao Ma , Hongzhi Yin , Shazia Sadiq

Local differential privacy (LDP) involves users perturbing their inputs to provide plausible deniability of their data. However, this also makes LDP vulnerable to poisoning attacks. In this paper, we first introduce novel poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Pei Zhan , Peng Tang , Yangzhuo Li , Puwen Wei , Shanqing Guo

Recommender Systems~(RS) have been shown to be vulnerable to injective attacks, where attackers inject limited fake user profiles to promote the exposure of target items to real users for unethical gains (e.g., economic or political…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Junsong Xie , Yonghui Yang , Pengyang Shao , Le Wu

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have gained significant attention from various communities, driven by rapid advancements in informational technology. Within the realm of ITS, navigational recommendation systems (RS) play a pivotal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ya-Ting Yang , Haozhe Lei , Quanyan Zhu

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

Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) are considered privacy-preserving techniques to collaboratively learn a recommendation model without sharing user data. Since all participants can directly influence the systems by uploading…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Wei Yuan , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Tieke He , Liang Chen , Hongzhi Yin

Recommendation and collaborative filtering systems are important in modern information and e-commerce applications. As these systems are becoming increasingly popular in the industry, their outputs could affect business decision making,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Bo Li , Yining Wang , Aarti Singh , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Data poisoning is a training-time attack that undermines the trustworthiness of learned models. In a targeted data poisoning attack, an adversary manipulates the training dataset to alter the classification of a targeted test point. Given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nakshatra Gupta , Sumanth Prabhu , Supratik Chakraborty , R Venkatesh

News recommender systems (NRS) have been widely applied for online news websites to help users find relevant articles based on their interests. Recent methods have demonstrated considerable success in terms of recommendation performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dairui Liu , Derek Greene , Irene Li , Xuefei Jiang , Ruihai Dong
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