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Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have emerged as a popular research direction for protecting users' privacy in on-device recommendations. In FedRecs, users keep their data locally and only contribute their local collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Chaoqun Yang , Wei Yuan , Liang Qu , Thanh Tam Nguyen

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

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), a new type of attacks concerns the research community, namely Data Poisoning Attacks, which threaten the model integrity by maliciously altering training data. This paper introduces a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nick Galanis

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

We present a systematic study of provider-side data poisoning in retrieval-augmented recommender systems (RAG-based). By modifying only a small fraction of tokens within item descriptions -- for instance, adding emotional keywords or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Fatemeh Nazary , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio

Recently, recommender systems that aim to suggest personalized lists of items for users to interact with online have drawn a lot of attention. In fact, many of these state-of-the-art techniques have been deep learning based. Recent studies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Wenqi Fan , Tyler Derr , Xiangyu Zhao , Yao Ma , Hui Liu , Jianping Wang , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

Preserving privacy and reducing communication costs for edge users pose significant challenges in recommendation systems. Although federated learning has proven effective in protecting privacy by avoiding data exchange between clients and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Lin Wang , Zhichao Wang , Xi Leng , Xiaoying Tang

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

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

Centralized recommender systems encounter privacy leakage due to the need to collect user behavior and other private data. Hence, federated recommender systems (FedRec) have become a promising approach with an aggregated global model on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jiakui Shen , Yunqi Mi , Guoshuai Zhao , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

Recommendation systems have become central gatekeepers of online information, shaping user behaviour across a wide range of activities. In response, users increasingly organize and coordinate to steer algorithmic outcomes toward diverse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Giovanni De Toni , Cristian Consonni , Erasmo Purificato , Emilia Gomez , Bruno Lepri

Federated sequential recommendation distributes model training across user devices so that behavioural data remains local, reducing privacy risks. Yet, this setting introduces two intertwined difficulties. On the one hand, individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Minh Hieu Nguyen

Graph neural network (GNN)-based federated recommendation systems effectively capture user-item relationships while preserving data privacy. However, existing methods often face slow convergence on graph data and privacy leakage risks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhenxing Yan , Jidong Yuan , Yongqi Sun , Haiyang Liu , Zhihui Gao

Federated learning has recently been applied to recommendation systems to protect user privacy. In federated learning settings, recommendation systems can train recommendation models only collecting the intermediate parameters instead of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zehua Sun , Yonghui Xu , Yong Liu , Wei He , Lanju Kong , Fangzhao Wu , Yali Jiang , Lizhen Cui

News Recommendation System(NRS) has become a fundamental technology to many online news services. Meanwhile, several studies show that recommendation systems(RS) are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, and the attackers have the ability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xudong Zhang , Zan Wang , Jingke Zhao , Lanjun Wang

Federated recommendation systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for providing privacy-preserving recommendation services. However, existing FedRecs assume that all users have the same requirements for privacy protection, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ce Na , Kai Yang , Dengzhao Fang , Yu Li , Jingtong Gao , Chengcheng Zhu , Jiale Zhang , Xiaobing Sun , Yi Chang

Federated recommendation (FR) is a promising paradigm to protect user privacy in recommender systems. Distinct from general federated scenarios, FR inherently needs to preserve client-specific parameters, i.e., user embeddings, for privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jundong Chen , Honglei Zhang , Haoxuan Li , Chunxu Zhang , Zhiwei Li , Yidong Li

Federated learning (FL), integrating group fairness mechanisms, allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model that makes unbiased decisions for different populations grouped by sensitive attributes (e.g., gender and race).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jiashi Gao , Ziwei Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Xinming Shi , Xin Yao , Xuetao Wei

Federated learning is particularly susceptible to model poisoning and backdoor attacks because individual users have direct control over the training data and model updates. At the same time, the attack power of an individual user is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuxin Wen , Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Hossein Souri , Rama Chellappa , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Recommendation and collaborative filtering systems are important in modern information and e-commerce applications. As these systems are becoming increasingly popular in the industry, their outputs could affect business decision making,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Bo Li , Yining Wang , Aarti Singh , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik