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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

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

Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks in which malicious clients poison the global model via sending malicious model updates to the server. Existing defenses focus on preventing a small number of malicious clients from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Zaixi Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning has recently emerged as a decentralized approach to learn a high-performance model without access to user data. Despite its effectiveness, federated learning gives malicious users opportunities to manipulate the model by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tianhang Zheng , Baochun Li

This demo paper examines the susceptibility of Federated Learning (FL) systems to targeted data poisoning attacks, presenting a novel system for visualizing and mitigating such threats. We simulate targeted data poisoning attacks via label…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xueqing Zhang , Junkai Zhang , Ka-Ho Chow , Juntao Chen , Ying Mao , Mohamed Rahouti , Xiang Li , Yuchen Liu , Wenqi Wei

Various attack methods against recommender systems have been proposed in the past years, and the security issues of recommender systems have drawn considerable attention. Traditional attacks attempt to make target items recommended to as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dazhong Rong , Qinming He , Jianhai Chen

Visually-aware recommender systems have found widespread application in domains where visual elements significantly contribute to the inference of users' potential preferences. While the incorporation of visual information holds the promise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Lijian Chen , Wei Yuan , Tong Chen , Guanhua Ye , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

As the demand for privacy in visual data management grows, safeguarding sensitive information has become a critical challenge. This paper addresses the need for privacy-preserving solutions in large-scale visual data processing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pedro Santos , Tânia Carvalho , Filipe Magalhães , Luís Antunes

Recommender systems are widely used in industry to improve user experience. Despite great success, they have recently been criticized for collecting private user data. Federated Learning (FL) is a new paradigm for learning on distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Junyi Li , Heng Huang

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

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

Visually-aware recommendation on E-commerce platforms aims to leverage visual information of items to predict a user's preference. It is commonly observed that user's attention to visual features does not always reflect the real preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ruihong Qiu , Sen Wang , Zhi Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Zi Huang

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

With the continuous development of deep learning in the field of image generation models, a large number of vivid forged faces have been generated and spread on the Internet. These high-authenticity artifacts could grow into a threat to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Decheng Liu , Zhan Dang , Chunlei Peng , Yu Zheng , Shuang Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) leverage federated learning to protect user privacy by retaining data locally. However, user embeddings in FedRecs often encode sensitive attribute information, rendering them vulnerable to attribute…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuyuan Li , Junjie Fang , Fengyuan Yu , Xichun Sheng , Tianyu Du , Xuyang Teng , Shaowei Jiang , Linbo Jiang , Jianan Lin , Chaochao Chen

Federated recommender systems (FedRS) have emerged as a paradigm for protecting user privacy by keeping interaction data on local devices while coordinating model training through a central server. However, most existing federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Liang Qu , Jianxin Li , Wei Yuan , Shangfei Zheng , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Hongzhi Yin

We consider the recent privacy preserving methods that train the models not on original images, but on mixed images that look like noise and hard to trace back to the original images. We explain that those mixed images will be samples on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Federated Learning enables visual models to be trained on-device, bringing advantages for user privacy (data need never leave the device), but challenges in terms of data diversity and quality. Whilst typical models in the datacenter are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Tzu-Ming Harry Hsu , Hang Qi , Matthew Brown

Federated learning (FL) systems are susceptible to attacks from malicious actors who might attempt to corrupt the training model through various poisoning attacks. FL also poses new challenges in addressing group bias, such as ensuring fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Viktor Valadi , Xinchi Qiu , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão , Nicholas D. Lane , Mina Alibeigi

With rich visual data, such as images, becoming readily associated with items, visually-aware recommendation systems (VARS) have been widely used in different applications. Recent studies have shown that VARS are vulnerable to item-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Minglei Yin , Bin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Xin Li