arXiv:2508.19620cs.IRcs.AI2025-08综述被引 2

从推荐场景出发,梳理联邦推荐系统的实用技术与挑战。

A Scenario-Oriented Survey of Federated Recommender Systems: Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • 按推荐场景分类分析联邦推荐方法,突出实际应用适配性
  • 指出跨域推荐中标签漂移源于推荐本身而非框架设计
  • 为落地部署提供实践指导,弥合研究与应用差距

将推荐系统扩展到联邦学习(FL)框架以在保护用户或平台隐私的同时提供推荐,近年来受到学术界广泛关注。这源于推荐系统与联邦学习架构的天然耦合:数据来自分布式客户端(主要是用户持有的移动设备),与隐私高度相关。在集中式推荐系统(CenRec)中,中心服务器收集客户端数据、训练模型并提供服务;而在联邦推荐系统(FedRec)中,数据收集步骤被省略,模型训练任务下放至各客户端,服务器仅聚合模型与其他知识,从而避免客户端隐私泄露。现有部分联邦推荐系统综述从设计联邦学习系统的角度分析相关工作,但忽视了具体推荐场景的独特特征与实际挑战,导致实用性下降。例如,跨域联邦推荐中的统计异质性问题源自不同平台持有的数据标签漂移,主要由推荐系统自身引起,而非联邦架构所致。因此,应更聚焦于解决真实推荐场景中的具体问题,以促进联邦推荐系统的实际部署。为此,本综述从推荐研究者与实践者的视角,系统分析推荐场景与联邦学习框架的耦合关系,建立清晰链接,全面剖析场景特定方法、实际挑战与潜在机遇,旨在为联邦推荐系统的实际部署提供指导,弥合现有研究与应用之间的鸿沟。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Extending recommender systems to federated learning (FL) frameworks to protect the privacy of users or platforms while making recommendations has recently gained widespread attention in academia. This is due to the natural coupling of recommender systems and federated learning architectures: the data originates from distributed clients (mostly mobile devices held by users), which are highly related to privacy. In a centralized recommender system (CenRec), the central server collects clients' data, trains the model, and provides the service. Whereas in federated recommender systems (FedRec), the step of data collecting is omitted, and the step of model training is offloaded to each client. The server only aggregates the model and other knowledge, thus avoiding client privacy leakage. Some surveys of federated recommender systems discuss and analyze related work from the perspective of designing FL systems. However, their utility drops by ignoring specific recommendation scenarios' unique characteristics and practical challenges. For example, the statistical heterogeneity issue in cross-domain FedRec originates from the label drift of the data held by different platforms, which is mainly caused by the recommender itself, but not the federated architecture. Therefore, it should focus more on solving specific problems in real-world recommendation scenarios to encourage the deployment FedRec. To this end, this review comprehensively analyzes the coupling of recommender systems and federated learning from the perspective of recommendation researchers and practitioners. We establish a clear link between recommendation scenarios and FL frameworks, systematically analyzing scenario-specific approaches, practical challenges, and potential opportunities. We aim to develop guidance for the real-world deployment of FedRec, bridging the gap between existing research and applications.

联邦学习推荐系统隐私保护综述

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。