提出协同聚类方法,解决联邦推荐中用户与物品异质性问题。
Co-clustering for Federated Recommender System
- 联合聚类用户和物品,避免隐私泄露
- 在4个数据集上提升推荐准确率,显著优于基线
- 适合注重隐私保护的个性化推荐场景
随着数据隐私与安全受关注,联邦推荐系统(FRS)在保障用户隐私的同时提供高质量推荐。然而,由于个性化决策模式导致的统计异质性,常影响协同过滤效果。现有方法或通过用户表示聚类存在隐私风险,或对物品嵌入/梯度使用传统聚类,面临维度灾难。本文分析了K-Means在高维稀疏联邦场景下的失效原因,提出CoFedRec:一种新型协同聚类联邦推荐机制。服务器基于客户端提供的物品网络构建物品隶属关系;每轮通信中,客户端根据特定物品类别分组,生成智能聚合模型。同时,在客户端本地训练中引入基于服务器生成物品隶属关系的监督对比学习项,全面捕捉物品间全局关联。在四个数据集上的实验验证了该方法的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As data privacy and security attract increasing attention, Federated Recommender System (FRS) offers a solution that strikes a balance between providing high-quality recommendations and preserving user privacy. However, the presence of statistical heterogeneity in FRS, commonly observed due to personalized decision-making patterns, can pose challenges. To address this issue and maximize the benefit of collaborative filtering (CF) in FRS, it is intuitive to consider clustering clients (users) as well as items into different groups and learning group-specific models. Existing methods either resort to client clustering via user representations-risking privacy leakage, or employ classical clustering strategies on item embeddings or gradients, which we found are plagued by the curse of dimensionality. In this paper, we delve into the inefficiencies of the K-Means method in client grouping, attributing failures due to the high dimensionality as well as data sparsity occurring in FRS, and propose CoFedRec, a novel Co-clustering Federated Recommendation mechanism, to address clients heterogeneity and enhance the collaborative filtering within the federated framework. Specifically, the server initially formulates an item membership from the client-provided item networks. Subsequently, clients are grouped regarding a specific item category picked from the item membership during each communication round, resulting in an intelligently aggregated group model. Meanwhile, to comprehensively capture the global inter-relationships among items, we incorporate an additional supervised contrastive learning term based on the server-side generated item membership into the local training phase for each client. Extensive experiments on four datasets are provided, which verify the effectiveness of the proposed CoFedRec.
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