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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been increasingly deployed in a plethora of applications. However, the graph data used for training may contain sensitive personal information of the involved individuals. Once trained, GNNs typically…

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Recent regulations on the Right to be Forgotten have greatly influenced the way of running a recommender system, because users now have the right to withdraw their private data. Besides simply deleting the target data in the database,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yuyuan Li , Chaochao Chen , Xiaolin Zheng , Yizhao Zhang , Biao Gong , Jun Wang

Modern recommender systems aim to deeply understand users' complex preferences through their past interactions. While deep collaborative filtering approaches using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at capturing user-item relationships,…

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Graph Neural Network(GNN) based social recommendation models improve the prediction accuracy of user preference by leveraging GNN in exploiting preference similarity contained in social relations. However, in terms of both effectiveness and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yuhan Quan , Jingtao Ding , Chen Gao , Lingling Yi , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Recommender systems play a crucial role in addressing the issue of information overload by delivering personalized recommendations to users. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in leveraging graph neural networks (GNNs) for…

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Recent advancements in graph unlearning models have enhanced model utility by preserving the node representation essentially invariant, while using gradient ascent on the forget set to achieve unlearning. However, this approach causes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Qiang Chen , Zhongze Wu , Ang He , Xi Lin , Shuo Jiang , Shan You , Chang Xu , Yi Chen , Xiu Su

Existing sequential recommendation methods rely on large amounts of training data and usually suffer from the data sparsity problem. To tackle this, the pre-training mechanism has been widely adopted, which attempts to leverage large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chaojun Xiao , Ruobing Xie , Yuan Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin

Graph unlearning, which deletes graph elements such as nodes and edges from trained graph neural networks (GNNs), is crucial for real-world applications where graph data may contain outdated, inaccurate, or privacy-sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pengfei Ding , Yan Wang , Guanfeng Liu , Jiajie Zhu

Many applications of machine learning require a model to make accurate pre-dictions on test examples that are distributionally different from training ones, while task-specific labels are scarce during training. An effective approach to…

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Identifying the training datasets that influence a language model's outputs is essential for minimizing the generation of harmful content and enhancing its performance. Ideally, we can measure the influence of each dataset by removing it…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning from graph-structured data in domains such as social networks, recommender systems, and financial platforms. To comply with privacy regulations like the GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA,…

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Machine unlearning is the process of efficiently removing specific information from a trained machine learning model without retraining from scratch. Existing unlearning methods, which often provide provable guarantees, typically involve…

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Recommender systems based on graph neural networks perform well in tasks such as rating and ranking. However, in real-world recommendation scenarios, noise such as user misuse and malicious advertisement gradually accumulates through the…

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Leveraging network information for predictive modeling has become widespread in many domains. Within the realm of referral and targeted marketing, influencer detection stands out as an area that could greatly benefit from the incorporation…

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Graph-based and sequential methods are two popular recommendation paradigms, each excelling in its domain but lacking the ability to leverage signals from the other. To address this, we propose a novel method that integrates both approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Yuwei Cao , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Yuqing Liu , Chen Wang , Yueqing Liang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Social media plays a crucial role in shaping society, often amplifying polarization and spreading misinformation. These effects stem from complex dynamics involving user interactions, individual traits, and recommender algorithms driving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Sabrina Guidotti , Sabrina Patania , Giuseppe Vizzari , Dimitri Ognibene , Gregor Donabauer , Udo Kruschwitz , Davide Taibi

Graph unlearning is tailored for GNNs to handle widespread and various graph structure unlearning requests, which remain largely unexplored. The GIF (graph influence function) achieves validity under partial edge unlearning, but faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hang Yin , Zipeng Liu , Xiaoyong Peng , Liyao Xiang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as promising solutions for collaborative filtering (CF) through the modeling of user-item interaction graphs. The nucleus of existing GNN-based recommender systems involves recursive message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Peiyan Zhang , Yuchen Yan , Xi Zhang , Chaozhuo Li , Senzhang Wang , Feiran Huang , Sunghun Kim

To alleviate the cold start problem caused by collaborative filtering in recommender systems, knowledge graphs (KGs) are increasingly employed by many methods as auxiliary resources. However, existing work incorporated with KGs cannot…

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