arXiv:2602.21957cs.IRcs.LG2026-02

通过聚类标签实现联邦推荐,减少通信量并提升个性化。

Learning to Collaborate via Structures: Cluster-Guided Item Alignment for Federated Recommendation

  • 用聚类标签代替原始嵌入传输,降低通信开销。
  • 在多个数据集上保持高推荐准确率,通信效率显著提升。
  • 适合注重隐私与通信成本的个性化推荐场景。

联邦推荐在保护用户交互数据隐私的同时,实现跨客户端协同建模。传统方法依赖服务器与客户端之间同步高维物品嵌入,隐含假设嵌入坐标需精确对齐。我们提出,建立物品间的相对语义关系比共享嵌入更有效。全局语义关系作为结构约束,允许各客户端局部调整物品表示,从而兼顾细粒度用户个性化与全局一致性。为此,我们提出集群引导的联邦推荐框架(CGFedRec):将上传的嵌入转换为紧凑的聚类标签,服务器作为全局结构发现者学习物品聚类,并仅分发标签。该机制显式切断嵌入的下游传输,使客户端无需维护全局共享嵌入。结果,CGFedRec在不传输完整嵌入的前提下,有效注入全局协作信号至本地表示。大量实验表明,该方法显著提升通信效率,同时在多个数据集上保持优异推荐精度。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Federated recommendation facilitates collaborative model training across distributed clients while keeping sensitive user interaction data local. Conventional approaches typically rely on synchronizing high-dimensional item representations between the server and clients. This paradigm implicitly assumes that precise geometric alignment of embedding coordinates is necessary for collaboration across clients. We posit that establishing relative semantic relationships among items is more effective than enforcing shared representations. Specifically, global semantic relations serve as structural constraints for items. Within these constraints, the framework allows item representations to vary locally on each client, which flexibility enables the model to capture fine-grained user personalization while maintaining global consistency. To this end, we propose Cluster-Guided FedRec framework (CGFedRec), a framework that transforms uploaded embeddings into compact cluster labels. In this framework, the server functions as a global structure discoverer to learn item clusters and distributes only the resulting labels. This mechanism explicitly cuts off the downstream transmission of item embeddings, relieving clients from maintaining global shared item embeddings. Consequently, CGFedRec achieves the effective injection of global collaborative signals into local item representations without transmitting full embeddings. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly improves communication efficiency while maintaining superior recommendation accuracy across multiple datasets.

联邦学习推荐系统聚类

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