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To make room for privacy and efficiency, the deployment of many recommender systems is experiencing a shift from central servers to personal devices, where the federated recommender systems (FedRecs) and decentralized collaborative…

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Federated recommender systems (FedRec) have emerged as a promising approach to provide personalized recommendations while protecting user privacy. However, recent studies have shown their vulnerability to poisoning attacks, where malicious…

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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

Local differential privacy (LDP) is an emerging privacy standard to protect individual user data. One scenario where LDP can be applied is federated learning, where each user sends in his/her user gradients to an aggregator who uses these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Hans Albert Lianto , Yang Zhao , Jun Zhao

Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a promising paradigm of privacy-preserving machine learning, which trains an algorithm across multiple clients without exchanging their data samples. Recent works highlighted several privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yaowei Han , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

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…

Federated Contrastive Learning (FCL) represents a burgeoning approach for learning from decentralized unlabeled data while upholding data privacy. In FCL, participant clients collaborate in learning a global encoder using unlabeled data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Kongyang Chen , Wenfeng Wang , Zixin Wang , Wangjun Zhang , Zhipeng Li , Yao Huang

Collecting and training over sensitive personal data raise severe privacy concerns in personalized recommendation systems, and federated learning can potentially alleviate the problem by training models over decentralized user data.However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ruixuan Liu , Yanlin Wang , Yang Cao , Lingjuan Lyu , Weike Pan , Yun Chen , Hong Chen

Building recommendation systems via federated learning (FL) is a new emerging challenge for advancing next-generation Internet service and privacy protection. Existing approaches train shared item embedding by FL while keeping the user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou

While significant research advances have been made in the field of deep reinforcement learning, there have been no concrete adversarial attack strategies in literature tailored for studying the vulnerability of deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Maziar Gomrokchi , Susan Amin , Hossein Aboutalebi , Alexander Wong , Doina Precup

Privacy-preserving recommendations are recently gaining momentum, since the decentralized user data is increasingly harder to collect, by recommendation service providers, due to the serious concerns over user privacy and data security.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mingkai Huang , Hao Li , Bing Bai , Chang Wang , Kun Bai , Fei Wang

Due to the highly sensitive nature of certain data in cross-border sharing, collaborative cross-border recommendations and data sharing are often subject to stringent privacy protection regulations, resulting in insufficient data for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhizhong Tan , Jiexin Zheng , Xingxing Yang , Chi Zhang , Weiping Deng , Wenyong Wang

Federated learning has recently been applied to recommendation systems to protect user privacy. In federated learning settings, recommendation systems can train recommendation models only collecting the intermediate parameters instead of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zehua Sun , Yonghui Xu , Yong Liu , Wei He , Lanju Kong , Fangzhao Wu , Yali Jiang , Lizhen Cui

With the development of the internet, recommending interesting products to users has become a highly valuable research topic for businesses. Recommendation systems play a crucial role in addressing this issue. To prevent the leakage of each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiaokai Cao , Wenjin Mo , Zhenyu He , Changdong Wang

With growing concerns about user data collection, individualized privacy has emerged as a promising solution to balance protection and utility by accounting for diverse user privacy preferences. Instead of enforcing a uniform level of…

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Recommender systems have become ubiquitous in the past years. They solve the tyranny of choice problem faced by many users, and are utilized by many online businesses to drive engagement and sales. Besides other criticisms, like creating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-17 David Neumann , Andreas Lutz , Karsten Müller , Wojciech Samek

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

Federated learning (FL) takes a first step towards privacy-preserving machine learning by training models while keeping client data local. Models trained using FL may still leak private client information through model updates during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Nasser Aldaghri , Hessam Mahdavifar , Ahmad Beirami

Recommendation is one of the critical applications that helps users find information relevant to their interests. However, a malicious attacker can infer users' private information via recommendations. Prior work obfuscates user-item data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Ghazaleh Beigi , Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Ruocheng Guo , Hamidreza Alvari , Alexander Nou , Huan Liu

Machine learning models used for distributed architectures consisting of servers and clients require large amounts of data to achieve high accuracy. Data obtained from clients are collected on a central server for model training. However,…

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