ToDA: Target-oriented Diffusion Attacker against Recommendation System

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Autori principali: Liu, Xiaohao, Tao, Zhulin, Jiang, Ting, Chang, He, Ma, Yunshan, Wei, Yinwei, Wang, Xiang
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Liu, Xiaohao
Tao, Zhulin
Jiang, Ting
Chang, He
Ma, Yunshan
Wei, Yinwei
Wang, Xiang
author_facet Liu, Xiaohao
Tao, Zhulin
Jiang, Ting
Chang, He
Ma, Yunshan
Wei, Yinwei
Wang, Xiang
contents Recommendation systems (RS) have become indispensable tools for web services to address information overload, thus enhancing user experiences and bolstering platforms' revenues. However, with their increasing ubiquity, security concerns have also emerged. As the public accessibility of RS, they are susceptible to specific malicious attacks where adversaries can manipulate user profiles, leading to biased recommendations. Recent research often integrates additional modules using generative models to craft these deceptive user profiles, ensuring them are imperceptible while causing the intended harm. Albeit their efficacy, these models face challenges of unstable training and the exploration-exploitation dilemma, which can lead to suboptimal results. In this paper, we pioneer to investigate the potential of diffusion models (DMs), for shilling attacks. Specifically, we propose a novel Target-oriented Diffusion Attack model (ToDA). It incorporates a pre-trained autoencoder that transforms user profiles into a high dimensional space, paired with a Latent Diffusion Attacker (LDA)-the core component of ToDA. LDA introduces noise into the profiles within this latent space, adeptly steering the approximation towards targeted items through cross-attention mechanisms. The global horizon, implemented by a bipartite graph, is involved in LDA and derived from the encoded user profile feature. This makes LDA possible to extend the generation outwards the on-processing user feature itself, and bridges the gap between diffused user features and target item features. Extensive experiments compared to several SOTA baselines demonstrate ToDA's effectiveness. Specific studies exploit the elaborative design of ToDA and underscore the potency of advanced generative models in such contexts.
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Liu, Xiaohao
Tao, Zhulin
Jiang, Ting
Chang, He
Ma, Yunshan
Wei, Yinwei
Wang, Xiang
Cryptography and Security
Recommendation systems (RS) have become indispensable tools for web services to address information overload, thus enhancing user experiences and bolstering platforms' revenues. However, with their increasing ubiquity, security concerns have also emerged. As the public accessibility of RS, they are susceptible to specific malicious attacks where adversaries can manipulate user profiles, leading to biased recommendations. Recent research often integrates additional modules using generative models to craft these deceptive user profiles, ensuring them are imperceptible while causing the intended harm. Albeit their efficacy, these models face challenges of unstable training and the exploration-exploitation dilemma, which can lead to suboptimal results. In this paper, we pioneer to investigate the potential of diffusion models (DMs), for shilling attacks. Specifically, we propose a novel Target-oriented Diffusion Attack model (ToDA). It incorporates a pre-trained autoencoder that transforms user profiles into a high dimensional space, paired with a Latent Diffusion Attacker (LDA)-the core component of ToDA. LDA introduces noise into the profiles within this latent space, adeptly steering the approximation towards targeted items through cross-attention mechanisms. The global horizon, implemented by a bipartite graph, is involved in LDA and derived from the encoded user profile feature. This makes LDA possible to extend the generation outwards the on-processing user feature itself, and bridges the gap between diffused user features and target item features. Extensive experiments compared to several SOTA baselines demonstrate ToDA's effectiveness. Specific studies exploit the elaborative design of ToDA and underscore the potency of advanced generative models in such contexts.
title ToDA: Target-oriented Diffusion Attacker against Recommendation System
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12578