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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

Federated learning is a promising direction to tackle the privacy issues related to sharing patients' sensitive data. Often, federated systems in the medical image analysis domain assume that the participating local clients are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Indu Joshi , Priyank Upadhya , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Peter Schüffler , Nassir Navab

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for their potential to protect user's privacy by keeping user privacy data locally and only communicating model parameters/gradients to the server. Nevertheless, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Liang Qu , Wei Yuan , Ruiqi Zheng , Lizhen Cui , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

As one kind of distributed machine learning technique, federated learning enables multiple clients to build a model across decentralized data collaboratively without explicitly aggregating the data. Due to its ability to break data silos,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Junchuan Lianga , Rong Wang , Chaosheng Feng , Chin-Chen Chang

Traditional machine learning systems were designed in a centralized manner. In such designs, the central entity maintains both the machine learning model and the data used to adjust the model's parameters. As data centralization yields…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Alexandre Pham , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Sébastien Tixeuil , Serge Fdida

Test-time personalization in federated learning enables models at clients to adjust online to local domain shifts, enhancing robustness and personalization in deployment. Yet, existing federated learning work largely overlooks the security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Md Akil Raihan Iftee , Syed Md. Ahnaf Hasan , Amin Ahsan Ali , AKM Mahbubur Rahman , Sajib Mistry , Aneesh Krishna

Federated learning is inherently vulnerable to model poisoning attacks because its decentralized nature allows attackers to participate with compromised devices. In model poisoning attacks, the attacker reduces the model's performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ashwinee Panda , Saeed Mahloujifar , Arjun N. Bhagoji , Supriyo Chakraborty , Prateek Mittal

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

Federated learning (FL) has garnered significant attention as a prominent privacy-preserving Machine Learning (ML) paradigm. Decentralized FL (DFL) eschews traditional FL's centralized server architecture, enhancing the system's robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Chao Feng , Yunlong Li , Yuanzhe Gao , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Jan von der Assen , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Federated Learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning technique that enables individual clients (e.g., user participants, edge devices, or organizations) to train a model on their local data in a secure environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Waris Gill , Ali Anwar , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

Federated recommendation applies federated learning techniques in recommendation systems to help protect user privacy by exchanging models instead of raw user data between user devices and the central server. Due to the heterogeneity in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Sichun Luo , Yuanzhang Xiao , Linqi Song

Manipulation of local training data and local updates, i.e., the poisoning attack, is the main threat arising from the collaborative nature of the federated learning (FL) paradigm. Most existing poisoning attacks aim to manipulate local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Huazi Pan , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Scott Adams , Abbas Kouzani , Suiyang Khoo

The fusion of Large Language Models (LLMs) with recommender systems (RecSys) has dramatically advanced personalized recommendations and drawn extensive attention. Despite the impressive progress, the safety of LLM-based RecSys against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Liangbo Ning , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

With the growing number of Location-Based Social Networks, privacy preserving location prediction has become a primary task for helping users discover new points-of-interest (POIs). Traditional systems consider a centralized approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Vasileios Perifanis , George Drosatos , Giorgos Stamatelatos , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

Federated learning is known to be vulnerable to both security and privacy issues. Existing research has focused either on preventing poisoning attacks from users or on concealing the local model updates from the server, but not both.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Truc Nguyen , My T. Thai

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

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are pushing recommender systems (RecSys) toward content-grounded retrieval and ranking via cross-modal fusion. We find that while cross-modal consensus often mitigates conventional poisoning that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Guowei Guan , Yurong Hao , Jiaming Zhang , Tiantong Wu , Fuyao Zhang , Tianxiang Chen , Longtao Huang , Cyril Leung , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

Federated recommendation facilitates collaborative model training across distributed clients while keeping sensitive user interaction data local. Conventional approaches typically rely on synchronizing high-dimensional item representations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yuchun Tu , Zhiwei Li , Bingli Sun , Yixuan Li , Xiao Song

The privacy-preserving federated learning schemes based on the setting of two honest-but-curious and non-colluding servers offer promising solutions in terms of security and efficiency. However, our investigation reveals that these schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiahui Wu , Fucai Luo , Tiecheng Sun , Haiyan Wang , Weizhe Zhang

As high quality public data becomes scarce, Federated Learning (FL) provides a vital pathway to leverage valuable private user data while preserving privacy. However, real-world client data often contains toxic or unsafe information. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shunan Zhu , Jiawei Chen , Yonghao Yu , Hideya Ochiai