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While sequential recommender systems achieve significant improvements on capturing user dynamics, we argue that sequential recommenders are vulnerable against substitution-based profile pollution attacks. To demonstrate our hypothesis, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Ziyi Kou , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

This study presents Poison-RAG, a framework for adversarial data poisoning attacks targeting retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based recommender systems. Poison-RAG manipulates item metadata, such as tags and descriptions, to influence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Fatemeh Nazary , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso di Noia

With the outbreak of today's streaming data, the sequential recommendation is a promising solution to achieve time-aware personalized modeling. It aims to infer the next interacted item of a given user based on the historical item sequence.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Guanyu Lin , Chen Gao , Yinfeng Li , Yu Zheng , Zhiheng Li , Depeng Jin , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Yong Li

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to predict users' next interaction based on their historical behaviors, while still facing the challenge of data sparsity. With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyao Huang , Qidong Liu , Wenxuan Yang , Moranxin Wang , Yuqi Sun , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) are a popular type of recommender system that learns from a user's history to predict the next item they are likely to interact with. However, user interactions can be affected by noise stemming from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Andrea Bacciu , Federico Siciliano , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

Sequential Recommenders, which exploit dynamic user intents through interaction sequences, is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. While existing attacks primarily rely on data poisoning, they require large-scale user access or fake profiles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiajie Su , Zihan Nan , Yunshan Ma , Xiaobo Xia , Xiaohua Feng , Weiming Liu , Xiang Chen , Xiaolin Zheng , Chaochao Chen

Sequential recommendation is a popular task in academic research and close to real-world application scenarios, where the goal is to predict the next action(s) of the user based on his/her previous sequence of actions. In the training…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yuli Liu , Christian Walder , Lexing Xie

Recommender systems play a central role in digital platforms by providing personalized content. They often use methods such as collaborative filtering and machine learning to accurately predict user preferences. Although these systems offer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zihao Wang , Tianhao Mao , XiaoFeng Wang , Di Tang , Xiaozhong Liu

Reciprocal recommender system (RRS), considering a two-way matching between two parties, has been widely applied in online platforms like online dating and recruitment. Existing RRS models mainly capture static user preferences, which have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Bowen Zheng , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yang Song , Hengshu Zhu

Traditional sequential recommendation methods assume that users' sequence data is clean enough to learn accurate sequence representations to reflect user preferences. In practice, users' sequences inevitably contain noise (e.g., accidental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Chi Zhang , Qilong Han , Rui Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Tang , Hongtao Song

Local differential privacy (LDP) involves users perturbing their inputs to provide plausible deniability of their data. However, this also makes LDP vulnerable to poisoning attacks. In this paper, we first introduce novel poisoning attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Pei Zhan , Peng Tang , Yangzhuo Li , Puwen Wei , Shanqing Guo

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict items that users may be interested in based on their historical behavior sequences. We revisit SR from a novel information-theoretic perspective and find that conventional sequential modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Wenjia Xie , Hao Wang , Luankang Zhang , Rui Zhou , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Local differential privacy (LDP) provides a way for an untrusted data collector to aggregate users' data without violating their privacy. Various privacy-preserving data analysis tasks have been studied under the protection of LDP, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wei Tong , Haoyu Chen , Jiacheng Niu , Sheng Zhong

Sequential Recommendation (SR) predicts users next interactions by modeling the temporal order of their historical behaviors. Existing approaches, including traditional sequential models and generative recommenders, achieve strong…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sirui Huang , Jing Long , Qian Li , Guandong Xu , Qing Li

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has been widely adopted to protect user privacy in decentralized data collection. However, recent studies have revealed that LDP protocols are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, where malicious users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Ting-Wei Liao , Chih-Hsun Lin , Yu-Lin Tsai , Takao Murakami , Chia-Mu Yu , Jun Sakuma , Chun-Ying Huang , Hiroaki Kikuchi

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to address the data sparsity problems that exist in traditional sequential recommendation (SR) systems. The existing approaches aim to design a specific cross-domain unit that can transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wujiang Xu , Xuying Ning , Wenfang Lin , Mingming Ha , Qiongxu Ma , Qianqiao Liang , Xuewen Tao , Linxun Chen , Bing Han , Minnan Luo

Sequential recommender systems train their models based on a large amount of implicit user feedback data and may be subject to biases when users are systematically under/over-exposed to certain items. Unbiased learning based on inverse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chen Xu , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Zhenghua Dong , Ji-Rong Wen

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to predict future interactions based on user's historical sequential interactions from multiple domains. Generally, a key challenge of CDSR is how to mine precise cross-domain user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiangxia Cao , Xin Cong , Jiawei Sheng , Tingwen Liu , Bin Wang

Recommender systems (RSs) have emerged as very useful tools to help customers with their decision-making process, find items of their interest, and alleviate the information overload problem. There are two different lines of approaches in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shahpar Yakhchi

Sequential recommendation is an extensively explored approach to capturing users' evolving preferences based on past interactions, aimed at predicting their next likely choice. Despite significant advancements in this domain, including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kowei Shih , Yi Han , Li Tan