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Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered generative recommendation systems through fine-tuning user behavior data. However, utilizing the user data may pose significant privacy risks, potentially leading to ethical dilemmas and…

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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

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for their potential to protect user's privacy by keeping user privacy data locally and only communicating model parameters/gradients to the server. Nevertheless, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Liang Qu , Wei Yuan , Ruiqi Zheng , Lizhen Cui , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

The increasing emphasis on privacy in recommendation systems has led to the adoption of Federated Learning (FL) as a privacy-preserving solution, enabling collaborative training without sharing user data. While Federated Recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jaehyung Lim , Wonbin Kweon , Woojoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Seongjin Choi , Dongha Kim , Hwanjo Yu

Despite Federated Learning (FL) employing gradient aggregation at the server for distributed training to prevent the privacy leakage of raw data, private information can still be divulged through the analysis of uploaded gradients from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianzhe Xiao , Yichen Li , Yu Zhou , Yining Qi , Yi Liu , Wei Wang , Haozhao Wang , Yi Wang , Ruixuan Li

Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) have garnered increasing attention recently, thanks to their privacy-preserving benefits. However, the decentralized and open characteristics of current FedRecs present two dilemmas. First, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Wei Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Liang Qu , Guanhua Ye , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Federated Learning (FL) is gaining prominence in machine learning as privacy concerns grow. This paradigm allows each client (e.g., an individual online store) to train a recommendation model locally while sharing only model updates,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jongwon Park , Minku Kang , Wooseok Sim , Soyoung Lee , Hogun Park

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

The federated recommendation system is an emerging AI service architecture that provides recommendation services in a privacy-preserving manner. Using user-relation graphs to enhance federated recommendations is a promising topic. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijjian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

Federated Learning enables collaborative learning among clients via a coordinating server while avoiding direct data sharing, offering a perceived solution to preserve privacy. However, recent studies on Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Quan Nguyen , Minh N. Vu , Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participants to train machine learning models collaboratively by keeping their datasets local while only exchanging model updates. Alas, this is not necessarily free from privacy and robustness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Mohammad Naseri , Jamie Hayes , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Federated learning (FL) offers an innovative paradigm for collaborative model training across decentralized devices, such as smartphones, balancing enhanced predictive performance with the protection of user privacy in sensitive areas like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Mohammad Hasan Narimani , Mostafa Tavassolipour

With the growing number of Location-Based Social Networks, privacy preserving location prediction has become a primary task for helping users discover new points-of-interest (POIs). Traditional systems consider a centralized approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Vasileios Perifanis , George Drosatos , Giorgos Stamatelatos , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

The increasing data privacy concerns in recommendation systems have made federated recommendations (FedRecs) attract more and more attention. Existing FedRecs mainly focus on how to effectively and securely learn personal interests and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wei Yuan , Hongzhi Yin , Fangzhao Wu , Shijie Zhang , Tieke He , Hao Wang

Recommender systems play a pivotal role across practical scenarios, showcasing remarkable capabilities in user preference modeling. However, the centralized learning paradigm predominantly used raises serious privacy concerns. The federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Langming Liu , Wanyu Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Zijian Zhang , Chunxu Zhang , Shanru Lin , Yiqi Wang , Lixin Zou , Zitao Liu , Xuetao Wei , Hongzhi Yin , Qing Li

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

Local differential privacy (LDP) gives a strong privacy guarantee to be used in a distributed setting like federated learning (FL). LDP mechanisms in FL protect a client's gradient by randomizing it on the client; however, how can we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Marin Matsumoto , Tsubasa Takahashi , Seng Pei Liew , Masato Oguchi

With the growing concerns regarding user data privacy, Federated Recommender System (FedRec) has garnered significant attention recently due to its privacy-preserving capabilities. Existing FedRecs generally adhere to a learning protocol in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Wei Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Liang Qu , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Jianxin Li , Hongzhi Yin

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Federated recommendation is a new Internet service architecture that aims to provide privacy-preserving recommendation services in federated settings. Existing solutions are used to combine distributed recommendation algorithms and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Peng Yan , Zijian Zhang , Chengqi Zhang , Bo Yang