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Various attack methods against recommender systems have been proposed in the past years, and the security issues of recommender systems have drawn considerable attention. Traditional attacks attempt to make target items recommended to as…

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Recommender systems have shown to be a successful representative of how data availability can ease our everyday digital life. However, data privacy is one of the most prominent concerns in the digital era. After several data breaches and…

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Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a shared model without exposing local data. However, backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to FL. These attacks aim to implant a stealthy trigger into the global…

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Federated recommendation systems employ federated learning techniques to safeguard user privacy by transmitting model parameters instead of raw user data between user devices and the central server. Nevertheless, the current federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sichun Luo , Yuanzhang Xiao , Xinyi Zhang , Yang Liu , Wenbo Ding , Linqi Song

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm for facilitating multiple organizations' data collaboration without revealing their private data to each other. Recently, vertical FL, where the participating organizations hold the same set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xinjian Luo , Yuncheng Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Beng Chin Ooi

Recommender systems play a pivotal role across practical scenarios, showcasing remarkable capabilities in user preference modeling. However, the centralized learning paradigm predominantly used raises serious privacy concerns. The federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Langming Liu , Wanyu Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Zijian Zhang , Chunxu Zhang , Shanru Lin , Yiqi Wang , Lixin Zou , Zitao Liu , Xuetao Wei , Hongzhi Yin , Qing Li

News recommendation is critical for personalized news distribution. Federated news recommendation enables collaborative model learning from many clients without sharing their raw data. It is promising for privacy-preserving news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Bin Zhu , Jing Yao , Zhulin Tao , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

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

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) excel in capturing users' dynamic interests, thus playing a key role in various industrial applications. The popularity of SRSs has also driven emerging research on their security aspects, where data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yuchuan Zhao , Tong Chen , Junliang Yu , Kai Zheng , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin

In deep reinforcement learning, building policies of high-quality is challenging when the feature space of states is small and the training data is limited. Despite the success of previous transfer learning approaches in deep reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Wenfeng Feng , Yufeng Lin , Qian Xu , Qiang Yang

Federated recommender systems (FedRS) have emerged as a paradigm for protecting user privacy by keeping interaction data on local devices while coordinating model training through a central server. However, most existing federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Liang Qu , Jianxin Li , Wei Yuan , Shangfei Zheng , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Hongzhi Yin

Collecting and training over sensitive personal data raise severe privacy concerns in personalized recommendation systems, and federated learning can potentially alleviate the problem by training models over decentralized user data.However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ruixuan Liu , Yanlin Wang , Yang Cao , Lingjuan Lyu , Weike Pan , Yun Chen , Hong Chen

Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) have garnered increasing attention recently, thanks to their privacy-preserving benefits. However, the decentralized and open characteristics of current FedRecs present two dilemmas. First, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Wei Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Liang Qu , Guanhua Ye , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Federated Learning is a privacy preserving decentralized machine learning paradigm designed to collaboratively train models across multiple clients by exchanging gradients to the server and keeping private data local. Nevertheless, recent…

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Federated Recommendation (FedRec) has emerged as a key paradigm for building privacy-preserving recommender systems. However, existing FedRec models face a critical dilemma: memory-efficient single-knowledge models suffer from a suboptimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jaehyung Lim , Wonbin Kweon , Woojoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Dongha Kim , Hwanjo Yu

Due to the highly sensitive nature of certain data in cross-border sharing, collaborative cross-border recommendations and data sharing are often subject to stringent privacy protection regulations, resulting in insufficient data for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhizhong Tan , Jiexin Zheng , Xingxing Yang , Chi Zhang , Weiping Deng , Wenyong Wang

Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CSR) which leverages user sequence data from multiple domains has received extensive attention in recent years. However, the existing CSR methods require sharing origin user data across domains, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hongyu Zhang , Dongyi Zheng , Xu Yang , Jiyuan Feng , Qing Liao

Building recommendation systems via federated learning (FL) is a new emerging challenge for advancing next-generation Internet service and privacy protection. Existing approaches train shared item embedding by FL while keeping the user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou

Federated sequential recommendation (FedSeqRec) has gained growing attention due to its ability to protect user privacy. Unfortunately, the performance of FedSeqRec is still unsatisfactory because the models used in FedSeqRec have to be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wei Yuan , Chaoqun Yang , Guanhua Ye , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Sequential recommendation predicts user preferences over time and has achieved remarkable success. However, the growing length of user interaction sequences and the complex entanglement of evolving user interests and intentions introduce…

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