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Federated recommendation systems employ federated learning techniques to safeguard user privacy by transmitting model parameters instead of raw user data between user devices and the central server. Nevertheless, the current federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sichun Luo , Yuanzhang Xiao , Xinyi Zhang , Yang Liu , Wenbo Ding , Linqi Song

Sequential recommendation is an advanced recommendation technique that utilizes the sequence of user behaviors to generate personalized suggestions by modeling the temporal dependencies and patterns in user preferences. However, it requires…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yichen Li , Qiyu Qin , Gaoyang Zhu , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Yuhua Li , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li

Major data protection regulations all mention the "right to be forgotten," and that's what pushed federated unlearning (FU) techniques forward. But one stubborn issue remains: catastrophic forgetting--you erase the target knowledge, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hangyi Shen , Yizhi Pan , Tiansuo Li , Weiqi Jiang , Guanqun Sun

Federated unlearning has become an attractive approach to address privacy concerns in collaborative machine learning, for situations when sensitive data is remembered by AI models during the machine learning process. It enables the removal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yu Jiang , Xindi Tong , Ziyao Liu , Xiaoxi Zhang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Chee Wei Tan

Machine Unlearning (MU) is an increasingly important topic in machine learning safety, aiming at removing the contribution of a given data point from a training procedure. Federated Unlearning (FU) consists in extending MU to unlearn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yann Fraboni , Martin Van Waerebeke , Kevin Scaman , Richard Vidal , Laetitia Kameni , Marco Lorenzi

Machine Unlearning is an emerging field that addresses data privacy issues by enabling the removal of private or irrelevant data from the Machine Learning process. Challenges related to privacy and model efficiency arise from the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Lin Li , Haoran Xie , Taotao Cai , Xiaofeng Zhu , Qing Li

Owing to the nature of privacy protection, federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have garnered increasing interest in the realm of on-device recommender systems. However, most existing FedRecs only allow participating clients to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wei Yuan , Liang Qu , Lizhen Cui , Yongxin Tong , Xiaofang Zhou , Hongzhi Yin

News recommendation is critical for personalized news distribution. Federated news recommendation enables collaborative model learning from many clients without sharing their raw data. It is promising for privacy-preserving news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Bin Zhu , Jing Yao , Zhulin Tao , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for collaborative machine learning across decentralized data sources, preserving privacy by keeping data local. However, increasing legal and ethical demands, such as the "right to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Radmehr Karimian , Amirhossein Bagheri , Meghdad Kurmanji , Nicholas D. Lane , Gholamali Aminian

The advent of Federated Learning (FL) highlights the practical necessity for the right to be forgotten for all clients, allowing them to request data deletion from the machine learning models service provider. This necessity has spurred a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Hanlin Gu , Win Kent Ong , Chee Seng Chan , Lixin Fan

Federated Unlearning (FUL) aims to remove specific participants' data contributions from a trained Federated Learning model, thereby ensuring data privacy and compliance with regulatory requirements. Despite its potential, progress in FUL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Senura Hansaja , Le-Tuan Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham , Ken-Tye Yong , Nguyen H. Tran , Dung D. Le

Federated recommendation systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for providing privacy-preserving recommendation services. However, existing FedRecs assume that all users have the same requirements for privacy protection, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ce Na , Kai Yang , Dengzhao Fang , Yu Li , Jingtong Gao , Chengcheng Zhu , Jiale Zhang , Xiaobing Sun , Yi Chang

The proliferation of connected devices and privacy-sensitive applications has accelerated the adoption of Federated Learning (FL), a decentralized paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data. While FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wathsara Daluwatta , Shehan Edirimannage , Charitha Elvitigala , Asitha Kottahachchi Kankanamge Don , Ibrahim Khalil , Heng Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Federated recommendation (FR) is a promising paradigm to protect user privacy in recommender systems. Distinct from general federated scenarios, FR inherently needs to preserve client-specific parameters, i.e., user embeddings, for privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jundong Chen , Honglei Zhang , Haoxuan Li , Chunxu Zhang , Zhiwei Li , Yidong Li

Federated Unlearning (FU) enables clients to remove the influence of specific data from a collaboratively trained shared global model, addressing regulatory requirements such as GDPR and CCPA. However, this unlearning process introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hithem Lamri , Manaar Alam , Haiyan Jiang , Michail Maniatakos

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In many scenarios, however, a large proportion of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Carsten Maple

Modern recommender systems face a critical challenge in complying with privacy regulations like the 'right to be forgotten': removing a user's data without disrupting recommendations for others. Traditional unlearning methods address this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haichao Zhang , Chong Zhang , Peiyu Hu , Shi Qiu , Jia Wang

Federated recommendation (FedRec) can train personalized recommenders without collecting user data, but the decentralized nature makes it susceptible to poisoning attacks. Most previous studies focus on the targeted attack to promote…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yang Yu , Qi Liu , Likang Wu , Runlong Yu , Sanshi Lei Yu , Zaixi Zhang

Data protection legislation like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) establishes the \textit{right to be forgotten}: a user (client) can request contributions made using their data to be removed from learned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Shuyi Wang , Bing Liu , Guido Zuccon

Aiming at privacy preservation, Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning approach enabling model training on decentralized devices or data sources. The learning mechanism of FL relies on aggregating parameter updates from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiayan Chen , Zhirong Qian , Tianhui Meng , Xitong Gao , Tian Wang , Weijia Jia