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Federated learning ensures the privacy of clients by conducting distributed training on individual client devices and sharing only the model weights with a central server. However, in real-world scenarios, the heterogeneity of data among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jaewon Jang , Bonjun Choi

Federated recommender systems have emerged as a promising privacy-preserving paradigm, enabling personalized recommendation services without exposing users' raw data. By keeping data local and relying on a central server to coordinate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Liang Qu , Jianxin Li , Wei Yuan , Penghui Ruan , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

Federated recommendation system usually trains a global model on the server without direct access to users' private data on their own devices. However, this separation of the recommendation model and users' private data poses a challenge in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

In federated learning, clients share a global model that has been trained on decentralized local client data. Although federated learning shows significant promise as a key approach when data cannot be shared or centralized, current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Edvin Listo Zec , Olof Mogren , John Martinsson , Leon René Sütfeld , Daniel Gillblad

In Machine Learning scenarios, privacy is a crucial concern when models have to be trained with private data coming from users of a service, such as a recommender system, a location-based mobile service, a mobile phone text messaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Vito Walter Anelli , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Antonio Ferrara

Federated recommendation aims to collect global knowledge by aggregating local models from massive devices, to provide recommendations while ensuring privacy. Current methods mainly leverage aggregation functions invented by federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Honglei Zhang , Haoxuan Li , Jundong Chen , Sen Cui , Kunda Yan , Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi , Xin Zhou , Zhiqi Shen , Yidong Li

Conventional recommender systems are required to train the recommendation model using a centralized database. However, due to data privacy concerns, this is often impractical when multi-parties are involved in recommender system training.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Peihua Mai , Yan Pang

Federated learning enables machine learning models to learn from private decentralized data without compromising privacy. The standard formulation of federated learning produces one shared model for all clients. Statistical heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Viraj Kulkarni , Milind Kulkarni , Aniruddha Pant

Federated learning is a distributed, privacy-aware learning scenario which trains a single model on data belonging to several clients. Each client trains a local model on its data and the local models are then aggregated by a central party.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hesham Mostafa

Classical federated learning (FL) enables training machine learning models without sharing data for privacy preservation, but heterogeneous data characteristic degrades the performance of the localized model. Personalized FL (PFL) addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Mingjia Shi , Yuhao Zhou , Kai Wang , Huaizheng Zhang , Shudong Huang , Qing Ye , Jiangcheng Lv

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

We present PeFLL, a new personalized federated learning algorithm that improves over the state-of-the-art in three aspects: 1) it produces more accurate models, especially in the low-data regime, and not only for clients present during its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jonathan Scott , Hossein Zakerinia , Christoph H. Lampert

Although data-driven methods usually have noticeable performance on disease diagnosis and treatment, they are suspected of leakage of privacy due to collecting data for model training. Recently, federated learning provides a secure and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yawei Zhao , Qinghe Liu , Xinwang Liu , Kunlun He

Federated Learning (FL) allows training machine learning models in privacy-constrained scenarios by enabling the cooperation of edge devices without requiring local data sharing. This approach raises several challenges due to the different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Riccardo Zaccone , Andrea Rizzardi , Debora Caldarola , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Recommender Systems (RSs) have become increasingly important in many application domains, such as digital marketing. Conventional RSs often need to collect users' data, centralize them on the server-side, and form a global model to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qi Le , Enmao Diao , Xinran Wang , Ali Anwar , Vahid Tarokh , Jie Ding

In the era of big data, leveraging information from multiple clients while preserving data privacy has emerged as a critical challenge in modern statistical modeling and forecasting. This paper introduces a privacy-preserving federated…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-09 Kejun Chen , Qianqian Zhu

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

Personalized Federated Learning aims at addressing the challenges of non-IID data in collaborative model training. However, existing methods struggle to balance personalization and generalization, often oversimplifying client similarities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro

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

In Federated Learning (FL), accessing private client data incurs communication and privacy costs. As a result, FL deployments commonly prefinetune pretrained foundation models on a (large, possibly public) dataset that is held by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Charlie Hou , Hongyuan Zhan , Akshat Shrivastava , Sid Wang , Aleksandr Livshits , Giulia Fanti , Daniel Lazar