针对稀疏和恶意数据,提出抗干扰的联邦序列推荐聚合方法。
Robust Aggregation for Federated Sequential Recommendation with Sparse and Poisoned Data
- 通过防御感知机制识别并降低不可靠更新权重。
- 在稀疏数据下仍能保持用户行为建模的时序一致性。
- 适合隐私敏感场景下的个性化推荐系统开发。
联邦序列推荐将模型训练分布于用户设备上,使行为数据本地化,降低隐私风险。然而,该设置引入两大交织难题:一方面,单个客户端通常只提供短且高度稀疏的交互序列,限制了用户表征学习的可靠性;另一方面,联邦优化过程易受恶意或损坏客户端更新影响,中毒梯度可能显著扭曲全局模型。这些问题在序列推荐中尤为严重,因时间动态进一步加剧信号聚合难度。为此,我们提出一种面向稀疏与对抗性条件的联邦序列推荐鲁棒聚合框架。不同于标准平均,该方法引入防御感知聚合机制,识别并抑制不可靠客户端更新,同时保留来自稀疏但良性参与者的有效信号。框架结合表征级约束以稳定用户与物品嵌入,防止中毒或异常贡献主导全局参数空间。此外,集成序列感知正则化,即使在有限本地观测下也能维持用户建模的时间连贯性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated sequential recommendation distributes model training across user devices so that behavioural data remains local, reducing privacy risks. Yet, this setting introduces two intertwined difficulties. On the one hand, individual clients typically contribute only short and highly sparse interaction sequences, limiting the reliability of learned user representations. On the other hand, the federated optimisation process is vulnerable to malicious or corrupted client updates, where poisoned gradients can significantly distort the global model. These challenges are particularly severe in sequential recommendation, where temporal dynamics further complicate signal aggregation. To address this problem, we propose a robust aggregation framework tailored for federated sequential recommendation under sparse and adversarial conditions. Instead of relying on standard averaging, our method introduces a defence-aware aggregation mechanism that identifies and down-weights unreliable client updates while preserving informative signals from sparse but benign participants. The framework incorporates representation-level constraints to stabilise user and item embeddings, preventing poisoned or anomalous contributions from dominating the global parameter space. In addition, we integrate sequence-aware regularisation to maintain temporal coherence in user modelling despite limited local observations.
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