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Recommender systems (RS) have become crucial tools for information filtering in various real world scenarios. And cross domain recommendation (CDR) has been widely explored in recent years in order to provide better recommendation results…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hao Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Junzhe Jiang , Xianquan Wang , Rujiao Zhang , Chenyi Lei , Enhong Chen

Collaborative filtering recommenders provide effective personalization services at the cost of sacrificing the privacy of their end users. Due to the increasing concerns from the society and stricter privacy regulations, it is an urgent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Qiang Tang

The current business model for existing recommender services is centered around the availability of users' personal data at their side whereas consumers have to trust that the recommender service providers will not use their data in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Ahmed M. Elmisery , Seungmin Rho , Dmitri Botvich

It is a long-standing challenge in modern recommender systems to effectively make recommendations for new users, namely the cold-start problem. Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) has been proposed to address this challenge, but current ways…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Xin Su , Yao Zhou , Zifei Shan , Qian Chen

In real-world applications, domain data often contains identifiable or sensitive attributes, is subject to strict regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR), and requires explicit data feature engineering for interpretability and transparency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Haoyue Bai , Anjali Kaushik , Yanjie Fu

Cold-start problems are enormous challenges in practical recommender systems. One promising solution for this problem is cross-domain recommendation (CDR) which leverages rich information from an auxiliary (source) domain to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yongchun Zhu , Kaikai Ge , Fuzhen Zhuang , Ruobing Xie , Dongbo Xi , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

Recently, real-world recommendation systems need to deal with millions of candidates. It is extremely challenging to conduct sophisticated end-to-end algorithms on the entire corpus due to the tremendous computation costs. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ruobing Xie , Qi Liu , Shukai Liu , Ziwei Zhang , Peng Cui , Bo Zhang , Leyu Lin

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has been extensively studied and successfully applied in industry recently. However, most existing approaches build centralized models on the basis of collecting users' data. Both private data and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Chaochao Chen , Jun Zhou , Bingzhe Wu , Wenjin Fang , Li Wang , Yuan Qi , Xiaolin Zheng

Recommender systems are widely used. Usually, recommender systems are based on a centralized client-server architecture. However, this approach implies drawbacks regarding the privacy of users. In this paper, we propose a distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-15 S. Nuñez von Voigt , E. Daniel , F. Tschorsch

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been proven as a promising way to tackle the user cold-start problem, which aims to make recommendations for users in the target domain by transferring the user preference derived from the source…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Xiaodong Li , Jiawei Sheng , Jiangxia Cao , Wenyuan Zhang , Quangang Li , Tingwen Liu

This paper proposes a new recommendation system preserving both privacy and utility. It relies on the local differential privacy (LDP) for the browsing user to transmit his noisy preference profile, as perturbed Bloom filters, to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Seryne Rahali , Maryline Laurent , Souha Masmoudi , Charles Roux , Brice Mazeau

Cross-domain recommendation can help alleviate the data sparsity issue in traditional sequential recommender systems. In this paper, we propose the RecGURU algorithm framework to generate a Generalized User Representation (GUR)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Chenglin Li , Mingjun Zhao , Huanming Zhang , Chenyun Yu , Lei Cheng , Guoqiang Shu , Beibei Kong , Di Niu

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have recently attracted intensive research interests due to their elegant theoretical foundation and excellent empirical performance as generative models. These tools provide a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Liyang Xie , Kaixiang Lin , Shu Wang , Fei Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Privacy leaks are an unfortunate and an integral part of the current Internet domain name resolution. Each DNS query generated by a user reveals -- to one or more DNS servers -- the origin and target of that query. Over time, a user's…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on relational data, but real-world graphs are often distributed across organizations that cannot share raw data due to privacy and policy constraints. Existing federated GNN methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhishuai Guo , Wenhan Wu , Chen Chen , Lei Zhang , Olivera Kotevska , Ravi K Madduri

Transfer learning is an effective technique to improve a target recommender system with the knowledge from a source domain. Existing research focuses on the recommendation performance of the target domain while ignores the privacy leakage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Guangneng Hu , Qiang Yang

To address the long-standing data sparsity problem in recommender systems (RSs), cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been proposed to leverage the relatively richer information from a richer domain to improve the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Feng Zhu , Yan Wang , Chaochao Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Li , Guanfeng Liu

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been commonly utilized for social recommendation systems. However, real-world scenarios often present challenges related to user privacy and business constraints, inhibiting direct access…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Zheng Wang , Wanwan Wang , Yimin Huang , Zhaopeng Peng , Ziqi Yang , Ming Yao , Cheng Wang , Xiaoliang Fan

With increasing frequency of high-profile privacy breaches in various online platforms, users are becoming more concerned about their privacy. And recommender system is the core component of online platforms for providing personalized…

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