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Permissioned blockchains ensure integrity and auditability of shared data but expose query parameters to peers during read operations, creating privacy risks for organizations querying sensitive records. This paper proposes a Private…

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Recommender systems have become a pervasive part of our daily online experience, and are one of the most widely used applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Therefore, regulations and requirements for trustworthy…

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Decentralized learning (DL) faces increased vulnerability to privacy breaches due to sophisticated attacks on machine learning (ML) models. Secure aggregation is a computationally efficient cryptographic technique that enables multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sayan Biswas , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Rafael Pires , Rishi Sharma , Milos Vujasinovic

As one of the most successful AI-powered applications, recommender systems aim to help people make appropriate decisions in an effective and efficient way, by providing personalized suggestions in many aspects of our lives, especially for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Wenqi Fan , Xiangyu Zhao , Xiao Chen , Jingran Su , Jingtong Gao , Lin Wang , Qidong Liu , Yiqi Wang , Han Xu , Lei Chen , Qing Li

Points of interest (POI) recommendation has been drawn much attention recently due to the increasing popularity of location-based networks, e.g., Foursquare and Yelp. Among the existing approaches to POI recommendation, Matrix Factorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Chaochao Chen , Ziqi Liu , Peilin Zhao , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li

Recommender systems have become an indispensable component in online services during recent years. Effective recommendation is essential for improving the services of various online business applications. However, serious privacy concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Yingying Zhao , Dongsheng Li , Qin Lv , Li Shang

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that enables users to retrieve data from a database without revealing which item is being accessed, thereby preserving query privacy. However, PIR protocols also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lin Zhu , Lingwei Kong , Xin Ning , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang

Recommender systems are widely used to predict personalized preferences of goods or services using users' past activities, such as item ratings or purchase histories. If collections of such personal activities were made publicly available,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Jun Sakuma , Tatsuya Osame

We propose an efficient framework for enabling secure multi-party numerical computations in a Peer-to-Peer network. This problem arises in a range of applications such as collaborative filtering, distributed computation of trust and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Danny Bickson , Tzachy Reinman , Danny Dolev , Benny Pinkas

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

As an increasing amount of research is being done on various applications of sensor networks in adversarial environments, ensuring secure routing becomes of critical importance for the success of such deployments. The problem of designing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Minko Dudev , Sebastian Gerling , Philip Peter

Federated learning (FL) is an efficient learning framework that assists distributed machine learning when data cannot be shared with a centralized server due to privacy and regulatory restrictions. Recent advancements in FL use predefined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Erum Mushtaq , Chaoyang He , Jie Ding , Salman Avestimehr

We introduce baseSPIDER and SPIDER, private information retrieval (PIR) schemes that embody two technical advancements. The baseSPIDER protocol operates with a single server and a stateful client that performs pre-processing and stores…

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Ensuring privacy of users of social networks is probably an unsolvable conundrum. At the same time, an informed use of the existing privacy options by the social network participants may alleviate - or even prevent - some of the more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Kambiz Ghazinour , Stan Matwin , Marina Sokolova

In this paper, we propose a practically efficient model for securely computing rank-based statistics, e.g., median, percentiles and quartiles, over distributed datasets in the malicious setting without leaking individual data privacy. Based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Nan Wang , Sid Chi-Kin Chau

We propose an efficient framework for enabling secure multi-party numerical computations in a Peer-to-Peer network. This problem arises in a range of applications such as collaborative filtering, distributed computation of trust and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-15 Danny Bickson , Genia Bezman , Danny Dolev , Benny Pinkas

Sequential recommendation is an advanced recommendation technique that utilizes the sequence of user behaviors to generate personalized suggestions by modeling the temporal dependencies and patterns in user preferences. However, it requires…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yichen Li , Qiyu Qin , Gaoyang Zhu , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Yuhua Li , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li

Federated Recommendation can mitigate the systematical privacy risks of traditional recommendation since it allows the model training and online inferring without centralized user data collection. Most existing works assume that all user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jiangcheng Qin , Baisong Liu , Xueyuan Zhang , Jiangbo Qian

Recommendation as a service has improved the quality of our lives and plays a significant role in variant aspects. However, the preference of users may reveal some sensitive information, so that the protection of privacy is required. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Cheng Guo , Jing Jia , Peng Wang , Jing Zhang

Personalized decentralized learning is a promising paradigm for distributed learning, enabling each node to train a local model on its own data and collaborate with other nodes to improve without sharing any data. However, this approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Edvin Listo Zec , Johan Östman , Olof Mogren , Daniel Gillblad