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Due to the pivotal role of Recommender Systems (RS) in guiding customers towards the purchase, there is a natural motivation for unscrupulous parties to spoof RS for profits. In this paper, we study Shilling Attack where an adversarial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Chen Lin , Si Chen , Meifang Zeng , Sheng Zhang , Min Gao , Hui Li

In shilling attacks, an adversarial party injects a few fake user profiles into a Recommender System (RS) so that the target item can be promoted or demoted. Although much effort has been devoted to developing shilling attack methods, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Meifang Zeng , Ke Li , Bingchuan Jiang , Liujuan Cao , Hui Li

Recommendation Systems (RS) have become an essential part of many online services. Due to its pivotal role in guiding customers towards purchasing, there is a natural motivation for unscrupulous parties to spoof RS for profits. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chen Lin , Si Chen , Hui Li , Yanghua Xiao , Lianyun Li , Qian Yang

Graph recommendation systems have been widely studied due to their ability to effectively capture the complex interactions between users and items. However, these systems also exhibit certain vulnerabilities when faced with attacks. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Runze Li , Di Jin , Xiaobao Wang , Dongxiao He , Bingdao Feng , Zhen Wang

Recommender systems (RS) greatly influence users' consumption decisions, making them attractive targets for malicious shilling attacks that inject fake user profiles to manipulate recommendations. Existing shilling methods can generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yuanrong Wang , Yingpeng Du

Recommender systems (RS) are increasingly vulnerable to shilling attacks, where adversaries inject fake user profiles to manipulate system outputs. Traditional attack strategies often rely on simplistic heuristics, require access to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Shengkang Gu , Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Guangping Zhang , Mingzhe Han , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Li Shang , Tun Lu

Recommender systems (RSs) are now fundamental to various online platforms, but their dependence on user-contributed data leaves them vulnerable to shilling attacks that can manipulate item rankings by injecting fake users. Although widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shutong Qiao , Wei Yuan , Junliang Yu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Recommendation systems (RS) have become indispensable tools for web services to address information overload, thus enhancing user experiences and bolstering platforms' revenues. However, with their increasing ubiquity, security concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xiaohao Liu , Zhulin Tao , Ting Jiang , He Chang , Yunshan Ma , Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang

This paper proposes a novel method for detecting shilling attacks in Matrix Factorization (MF)-based Recommender Systems (RS), in which attackers use false user-item feedback to promote a specific item. Unlike existing methods that use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Sulthana Shams , Douglas Leith

With the development of information technology and the Internet, recommendation systems have become an important means to solve the problem of information overload. However, recommendation system is greatly fragile as it relies heavily on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Wanqiao Yuan , Yingyuan Xiao , Xu Jiao , Wenguang Zheng , Zihao Ling

Recommender systems (RS) are widely used in e-commerce for personalized suggestions, yet their openness makes them susceptible to shilling attacks, where adversaries inject fake behaviors to manipulate recommendations. Most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kaihong Li , Huichi Zhou , Bin Ma , Fangjun Huang

Personalization collaborative filtering recommender systems (CFRSs) are the crucial components of popular e-commerce services. In practice, CFRSs are also particularly vulnerable to "shilling" attacks or "profile injection" attacks due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Zhihai Yang

Considering the premise that the number of products offered grow in an exponential fashion and the amount of data that a user can assimilate before making a decision is relatively small, recommender systems help in categorizing content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Aditya Chichani , Juzer Golwala , Tejas Gundecha , Kiran Gawande

"Shilling" attacks or "profile injection" attacks have always major challenges in collaborative filtering recommender systems (CFRSs). Many efforts have been devoted to improve collaborative filtering techniques which can eliminate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Zhihai Yang

Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker injects fake…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Minghong Fang , Guolei Yang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jia Liu

Recent studies have shown that recommender systems (RSs) are highly vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. Understanding attack tactics helps improve the robustness of RSs. We intend to develop efficient attack methods that use limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Shiyi Yang , Lina Yao , Chen Wang , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

Recommender systems play an important role in modern information and e-commerce applications. While increasing research is dedicated to improving the relevance and diversity of the recommendations, the potential risks of state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Jiaxi Tang , Hongyi Wen , Ke Wang

Large language model-powered sequential recommender systems (LLM-SRSs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance, enabling recommendations through prompt-driven inference over user interaction sequences. However, this paradigm also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuchuan Zhao , Tong Chen , Junliang Yu , Zongwei Wang , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin

In practice, users of a Recommender System (RS) fall into a few clusters based on their preferences. In this work, we conduct a systematic study on user-cluster targeted data poisoning attacks on Matrix Factorisation (MF) based RS, where an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sulthana Shams , Douglas Leith

Recommender systems are vulnerable to injective attacks, which inject limited fake users into the platforms to manipulate the exposure of target items to all users. In this work, we identify that conventional injective attackers overlook…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Wenjie Wang , Changsheng Wang , Fuli Feng , Wentao Shi , Daizong Ding , Tat-Seng Chua
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