no code implementations • 24 Apr 2024 • Liang Qu, Cunze Wang, Yuhui Shi
Federated learning, as a privacy-preserving machine learning architecture, has shown promising performance in balancing data privacy and model utility by keeping private data on the client's side and using a central server to coordinate a set of clients for model training through aggregating their uploaded model parameters.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2024 • Liang Qu, Yun Lin, Wei Yuan, Xiaojun Wan, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
Given the critical role of similarity metrics in recommender systems, existing methods mainly employ handcrafted similarity metrics to capture the complex characteristics of user-item interactions.
no code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Kai Zheng, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
Knowledge sharing also opens a backdoor for model poisoning attacks, where adversaries disguise themselves as benign clients and disseminate polluted knowledge to achieve malicious goals like promoting an item's exposure rate.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2024 • Wei Yuan, Chaoqun Yang, Liang Qu, Guanhua Ye, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Hongzhi Yin
In this paper, we introduce a novel contrastive learning framework designed to fully leverage the client's sparse data through embedding augmentation, referred to as CL4FedRec.
no code implementations • 31 Jan 2024 • Liang Qu, Wei Yuan, Ruiqi Zheng, Lizhen Cui, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
To bridge this gap, this paper explores a user-governed data contribution federated recommendation architecture where users are free to take control of whether they share data and the proportion of data they share to the server.
no code implementations • 24 Jan 2024 • Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Lizhen Cui, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
Collaborative Learning (CL) emerges to promote model sharing among users, where reference data is an intermediary that allows users to exchange their soft decisions without directly sharing their private data or parameters, ensuring privacy and benefiting from collaboration.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2024 • Hongzhi Yin, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Wei Yuan, Ruiqi Zheng, Jing Long, Xin Xia, Yuhui Shi, Chengqi Zhang
Recently, driven by the advances in storage, communication, and computation capabilities of edge devices, there has been a shift of focus from CloudRSs to on-device recommender systems (DeviceRSs), which leverage the capabilities of edge devices to minimize centralized data storage requirements, reduce the response latency caused by communication overheads, and enhance user privacy and security by localizing data processing and model training.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2023 • Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen, Liang Qu, Bin Cui
Given the sheer volume of contemporary e-commerce applications, recommender systems (RSs) have gained significant attention in both academia and industry.
1 code implementation • 25 Nov 2023 • Wei Yuan, Chaoqun Yang, Liang Qu, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, JianXin Li, Hongzhi Yin
Existing FedRecs generally adhere to a learning protocol in which a central server shares a global recommendation model with clients, and participants achieve collaborative learning by frequently communicating the model's public parameters.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2023 • Wei Yuan, Liang Qu, Lizhen Cui, Yongxin Tong, Xiaofang Zhou, Hongzhi Yin
Owing to the nature of privacy protection, federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have garnered increasing interest in the realm of on-device recommender systems.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2023 • Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Kai Zheng, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
Given a memory budget, PEEL efficiently generates PEEs by selecting embedding blocks with the largest weights, making it adaptable to dynamic memory budgets on devices.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2023 • Liang Qu, Ningzhi Tang, Ruiqi Zheng, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Zi Huang, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
In light of this, we propose a semi-decentralized federated ego graph learning framework for on-device recommendations, named SemiDFEGL, which introduces new device-to-device collaborations to improve scalability and reduce communication costs and innovatively utilizes predicted interacted item nodes to connect isolated ego graphs to augment local subgraphs such that the high-order user-item collaborative information could be used in a privacy-preserving manner.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2022 • Liang Qu, Yonghong Ye, Ningzhi Tang, Lixin Zhang, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
In order to alleviate the above issues, some works focus on automated embedding dimension search by formulating it as hyper-parameter optimization or embedding pruning problems.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2022 • Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Bin Cui, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
To tackle this problem, Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is introduced to automatically search for the proper candidates for different parts of deep recommender systems.
1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2021 • Liang Qu, Huaisheng Zhu, Ruiqi Zheng, Yuhui Shi, Hongzhi Yin
Imbalanced classification on graphs is ubiquitous yet challenging in many real-world applications, such as fraudulent node detection.