arXiv:2510.20327cs.LGcs.AI2025-10中稿 · ACM Multimedia 202…被引 3

提出轻量级多属性遗忘框架,实现推荐系统中多个敏感信息的高效同步清除。

LEGO: A Lightweight and Efficient Multiple-Attribute Unlearning Framework for Recommender Systems

  • 分两步:先校准嵌入去除特定属性信息,再灵活组合成统一嵌入。
  • 在三个数据集上验证,支持多属性同时遗忘且效率显著提升。
  • 适合需要动态隐私保护的推荐系统场景,如社交推荐、个性化广告。

随着推荐系统对用户敏感信息保护需求的增加,推荐属性遗忘受到越来越多关注。现有研究主要聚焦于单属性遗忘,但现实中的隐私保护常涉及多个敏感属性且需求动态变化。现有方法存在两大局限:其一无法同时处理多属性遗忘请求,其二难以高效适应动态遗忘需求。为此,本文提出 LEGO 框架,一种轻量高效的多属性遗忘方法。具体地,将多属性遗忘过程分为两步:1)嵌入校准(Embedding Calibration)从用户嵌入中移除特定属性信息;2)灵活组合(Flexible Combination)将各校准后嵌入融合为单一嵌入,以同时保护所有敏感属性。我们将遗忘过程建模为互信息最小化问题,为 LEGO 提供理论保障,解决上述第一大挑战。通过两阶段设计,嵌入校准可并行执行,组合过程灵活高效,有效应对第二项挑战。在三个真实世界数据集上,针对三种代表性推荐模型的大量实验表明,该框架在有效性与效率方面均表现优异。代码与附录见 https://github.com/anonymifish/lego-rec-multiple-attribute-unlearning。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

With the growing demand for safeguarding sensitive user information in recommender systems, recommendation attribute unlearning is receiving increasing attention. Existing studies predominantly focus on single-attribute unlearning. However, privacy protection requirements in the real world often involve multiple sensitive attributes and are dynamic. Existing single-attribute unlearning methods cannot meet these real-world requirements due to i) CH1: the inability to handle multiple unlearning requests simultaneously, and ii) CH2: the lack of efficient adaptability to dynamic unlearning needs. To address these challenges, we propose LEGO, a lightweight and efficient multiple-attribute unlearning framework. Specifically, we divide the multiple-attribute unlearning process into two steps: i) Embedding Calibration removes information related to a specific attribute from user embedding, and ii) Flexible Combination combines these embeddings into a single embedding, protecting all sensitive attributes. We frame the unlearning process as a mutual information minimization problem, providing LEGO a theoretical guarantee of simultaneous unlearning, thereby addressing CH1. With the two-step framework, where Embedding Calibration can be performed in parallel and Flexible Combination is flexible and efficient, we address CH2. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets across three representative recommendation models demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed framework. Our code and appendix are available at https://github.com/anonymifish/lego-rec-multiple-attribute-unlearning.

推荐系统隐私保护多属性遗忘

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