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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…

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The increasing emphasis on privacy in recommendation systems has led to the adoption of Federated Learning (FL) as a privacy-preserving solution, enabling collaborative training without sharing user data. While Federated Recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jaehyung Lim , Wonbin Kweon , Woojoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Seongjin Choi , Dongha Kim , Hwanjo Yu

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

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized edge devices while preserving data privacy. However, statistical heterogeneity among clients, often manifested as non-IID label distributions, poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sameer Rahil , Zain Abdullah Ahmad , Talha Asif

Sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) is an effective method for improving the generalization of federated learning (FL) by steering local training toward flat minima. Under data heterogeneity, however, device-side SAM searches for locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bingnan Xiao , Yuan Gao , Bingcong Li , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated learning is a distributed, privacy-aware learning scenario which trains a single model on data belonging to several clients. Each client trains a local model on its data and the local models are then aggregated by a central party.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hesham Mostafa

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

The federated recommendation system is an emerging AI service architecture that provides recommendation services in a privacy-preserving manner. Using user-relation graphs to enhance federated recommendations is a promising topic. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijjian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

One of many impediments to applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to large-scale real-world graph data is the challenge of centralized training, which requires aggregating data from different organizations, raising privacy concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ruiyu Li , Peige Zhao , Guangxia Li , Pengcheng Wu , Xingyu Gao , Zhiqiang Xu

Extending recommender systems to federated learning (FL) frameworks to protect the privacy of users or platforms while making recommendations has recently gained widespread attention in academia. This is due to the natural coupling of…

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

Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems are typically trained based on personal interaction data (e.g., clicks and purchases) that could be naturally represented as ego graphs. However, most existing recommendation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Liang Qu , Ningzhi Tang , Ruiqi Zheng , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

Federated learning (FL) aims to train models collaboratively across clients without sharing data for privacy-preserving. However, one major challenge is the data heterogeneity issue, which refers to the biased labeling preferences at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Jiahua Shi , Jun Shen

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed devices to collaboratively train machine learning models while maintaining data privacy. However, the heterogeneous hardware capabilities of devices often result in significant training delays, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Letian Zhang , Bo Chen , Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Jie Xu

The inevitable presence of data heterogeneity has made federated learning very challenging. There are numerous methods to deal with this issue, such as local regularization, better model fusion techniques, and data sharing. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Abhijit Chunduru , Majid Morafah , Mahdi Morafah , Vishnu Pandi Chellapandi , Ang Li

Federated learning enables the deployment of machine learning to problems for which centralized data collection is impractical. Adding differential privacy guarantees bounds on privacy while data are contributed to a global model. Adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Andrew Silva , Katherine Metcalf , Nicholas Apostoloff , Barry-John Theobald

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

Generative recommendation has recently emerged as a transformative paradigm that directly generates target items, surpassing traditional cascaded approaches. It typically involves two components: a tokenizer that learns item identifiers and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jialei Li , Yang Zhang , Yimeng Bai , Shuai Zhu , Ziqi Xue , Xiaoyan Zhao , Dingxian Wang , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Xiangnan He

Federated recommendation provides a privacy-preserving solution for training recommender systems without centralizing user interactions. However, existing methods follow an ID-indexed communication paradigm that transmit whole item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mingzhe Han , Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Tun Lu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning across distributed data owners, but data heterogeneity poses a challenge for model calibration. While prior work focused on improving accuracy for non-iid data, calibration…

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