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Federated learning enables machine learning models to learn from private decentralized data without compromising privacy. The standard formulation of federated learning produces one shared model for all clients. Statistical heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Viraj Kulkarni , Milind Kulkarni , Aniruddha Pant

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

Recently, privacy issues in web services that rely on users' personal data have raised great attention. Unlike existing privacy-preserving technologies such as federated learning and differential privacy, we explore another way to mitigate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Ziqian Chen , Fei Sun , Yifan Tang , Haokun Chen , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding

Federated learning is a distributed, on-device computation framework that enables training global models without exporting sensitive user data to servers. In this work, we describe methods to extend the federation framework to evaluate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Kangkang Wang , Rajiv Mathews , Chloé Kiddon , Hubert Eichner , Françoise Beaufays , Daniel Ramage

News recommendation aims to display news articles to users based on their personal interest. Existing news recommendation methods rely on centralized storage of user behavior data for model training, which may lead to privacy concerns and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Federated learning is a promising collaborative and privacy-preserving machine learning approach in data-rich smart cities. Nevertheless, the inherent heterogeneity of these urban environments presents a significant challenge in selecting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Osama Wehbi , Sarhad Arisdakessian , Mohsen Guizani , Omar Abdel Wahab , Azzam Mourad , Hadi Otrok , Hoda Al khzaimi , Bassem Ouni

Personalization in federated learning (FL) functions as a coordinator for clients with high variance in data or behavior. Ensuring the convergence of these clients' models relies on how closely users collaborate with those with similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Eunjeong Jeong , Marios Kountouris

This paper proposes a decentralized recommender system by formulating the popular collaborative filleting (CF) model into a decentralized matrix completion form over a set of users. In such a way, data storages and computations are fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Zhangyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Shiyu Chang , Jiayu Zhou , Guo-Jun Qi , Thomas S. Huang

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

In Federated Learning, we aim to train models across multiple computing units (users), while users can only communicate with a common central server, without exchanging their data samples. This mechanism exploits the computational power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Alireza Fallah , Aryan Mokhtari , Asuman Ozdaglar

The drive for personalization in recommender systems creates a tension between user privacy and the risk of "filter bubbles". Although federated learning offers a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving recommendations, its impact on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sven Lankester , Gustavo de Carvalho Bertoli , Matias Vizcaino , Emmanuelle Beauxis Aussalet , Manel Slokom

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

In the past few decades, machine learning has revolutionized data processing for large scale applications. Simultaneously, increasing privacy threats in trending applications led to the redesign of classical data training models. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Muhammad Asad , Ahmed Moustafa , Takayuki Ito

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 Systems (FRSs) offer a privacy-preserving alternative to traditional centralized approaches by decentralizing data storage. However, they face persistent challenges such as data sparsity and heterogeneity, largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Chunxu Zhang , Honglei Zhang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is an effective mechanism for data privacy in recommender systems by running machine learning model training on-device. While prior FL optimizations tackled the data and system heterogeneity challenges faced by FL,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Kiwan Maeng , Haiyu Lu , Luca Melis , John Nguyen , Mike Rabbat , Carole-Jean Wu

Personalized News Recommendation systems (PNR) have emerged as a solution to information overload by predicting and suggesting news items tailored to individual user interests. However, traditional PNR systems face several challenges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Mehdi Khalaj , Shahrzad Golestani Najafabadi , Julita Vassileva

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning approach in which a single server and multiple clients collaboratively build machine learning models without sharing datasets on clients. A challenging issue of federated learning is data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Koji Matsuda , Yuya Sasaki , Chuan Xiao , Makoto Onizuka

With the arising concerns of privacy within machine learning, federated learning (FL) was invented in 2017, in which the clients, such as mobile devices, train a model and send the update to the centralized server. Choosing clients randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Carl Smestad , Jingyue Li

In this work, we present a federated version of the state-of-the-art Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) approach for item recommendations. The system, named FedNCF, enables learning without requiring users to disclose or transmit their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Vasileios Perifanis , Pavlos S. Efraimidis