Title
How to put users in control of their data in federated top-N recommendation with learning to rank
Abstract
ABSTRACTRecommendation services are extensively adopted in several user-centered applications as a tool to alleviate the information overload problem and help users in orienteering in a vast space of possible choices. In such scenarios, data ownership is a crucial concern since users may not be willing to share their sensitive preferences (e.g., visited locations) with a central server. Unfortunately, data harvesting and collection is at the basis of modern, state-of-the-art approaches to recommendation. To address this issue, we present FPL, an architecture in which users collaborate in training a central factorization model while controlling the amount of sensitive data leaving their devices. The proposed approach implements pair-wise learning-to-rank optimization by following the Federated Learning principles, originally conceived to mitigate the privacy risks of traditional machine learning. The public implementation is available at https://split.to/sisinflab-fpl.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3412841.3442010
Symposium on Applied Computing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vito Walter Anelli19118.45
Yashar Deldjoo218624.74
Tommaso Di Noia31857152.07
Antonio Ferrara4183.94
Fedelucio Narducci516024.77