Manipulating recommender systems: A survey of poisoning attacks and countermeasures

TT Nguyen, N Quoc Viet Hung, TT Nguyen… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have become an integral part of online services due to their ability to
help users locate specific information in a sea of data. However, existing studies show that …

On-device recommender systems: A comprehensive survey

H Yin, L Qu, T Chen, W Yuan, R Zheng, J Long… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems have been widely deployed in various real-world applications to
help users identify content of interest from massive amounts of information. Traditional …

Untargeted attack against federated recommendation systems via poisonous item embeddings and the defense

Y Yu, Q Liu, L Wu, R Yu, SL Yu, Z Zhang - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Federated recommendation (FedRec) can train personalized recommenders without
collecting user data, but the decentralized nature makes it susceptible to poisoning attacks …

Influence-driven data poisoning for robust recommender systems

C Wu, D Lian, Y Ge, Z Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have shown that recommender systems are vulnerable, and it is easy for
attackers to inject well-designed malicious profiles into the system, resulting in biased …

A comprehensive survey on trustworthy recommender systems

W Fan, X Zhao, X Chen, J Su, J Gao, L Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
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 …

Knowledge-enhanced black-box attacks for recommendations

J Chen, W Fan, G Zhu, X Zhao, C Yuan, Q Li… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks-based recommender systems are
vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where attackers can inject carefully crafted fake user …

FedAttack: Effective and covert poisoning attack on federated recommendation via hard sampling

C Wu, F Wu, T Qi, Y Huang, X **e - … of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Federated learning (FL) is a feasible technique to learn personalized recommendation
models from decentralized user data. Unfortunately, federated recommender systems are …

Recommendation unlearning via influence function

Y Zhang, Z Hu, Y Bai, J Wu, Q Wang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommendation unlearning is an emerging task to serve users for erasing unusable data
(eg, some historical behaviors) from a well-trained recommender model. Existing methods …

{PORE}: Provably Robust Recommender Systems against Data Poisoning Attacks

J Jia, Y Liu, Y Hu, NZ Gong - 32nd USENIX Security Symposium …, 2023 - usenix.org
Data poisoning attacks spoof a recommender system to make arbitrary, attacker-desired
recommendations via injecting fake users with carefully crafted rating scores into the …

Rank list sensitivity of recommender systems to interaction perturbations

S Oh, B Ustun, J McAuley, S Kumar - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Prediction models can exhibit sensitivity with respect to training data: small changes in the
training data can produce models that assign conflicting predictions to individual data points …