arXiv AI

Guiding Federated Graph Recommendation with LLM-encoded knowledge

arXiv:2606. 15277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based recommender systems are highly effective at extracting collaborative signals from user--item interactions, and federated learning (FL) allows these models to be trained while preserving user privacy.

arXiv AI
Sep 7

Graph Foundation Models for Recommendation: A Comprehensive Survey

The article surveys graph foundation models (GFMs) for recommender systems, highlighting how they combine graph neural networks (GNNs) and large language models (LLMs) to better capture user-item relationships and textual data. It offers a taxonomy of current GFM approaches, discusses methodological details, and identifies key challenges and future research directions. The survey aims to provide comprehensive insights into the evolving landscape of GFM-based recommender systems.

By Bin Wu, Yihang Wang, Yuanhao Zeng, Jiawei Liu, Jiashu Zhao, Cheng Yang, Yawen Li, Long Xia, Dawei Yin, Chuan Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Personalized and Multi-View Representation for Federated Cold-Start Recommendation

The paper introduces PMFRec, a federated cold-start recommendation framework that addresses personalization, compositionality, and communication inefficiencies. PMFRec generates user-specific item representations from attribute features, employs a global multi-view encoder with adaptive gating and orthogonality to capture complementary semantics, and fuses collaborative and attribute knowledge into a single exchanged representation. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that PMFRec outperforms strong baselines in cold-item recommendation while improving user-level fairness, warm-scenario adaptability, and robustness under Local Differential Privacy.

By Jaehyung Lim, Wonbin Kweon, Woojoo Kim, Junyoung Kim, Dongha Kim, Hwanjo Yu
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Breaking the Structural Identity: Personalized Federated LoRA Fine-tuning under Rank Heterogeneity

The paper introduces FedRoRA, a federated learning framework that combines Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) with rank‑heterogeneous personalization. It separates model adaptation into shared global directions and client‑specific rank‑wise magnitudes, using SVD on the server to extract a global subspace and a personalized projection with top‑k selection for each client. Experiments on natural language understanding and generation tasks show that FedRoRA outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang, Jie Xu
arXiv AI
Aug 12

FedCGR: Federated Cross-Domain Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 10929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) transfers preference knowledge across related domains, but federated deployment makes cross-domain alignment difficult because the behavioral anchors that align item spaces, such as overlapping users and shared interaction signals, are often sparse, unavailable, or privacy-sensitive across clients.

By Zhuodong Liu, Hugen Lv, Xiangyu Li, Bohan Guo, Peiyu Hu