Navigating the Future of Federated Recommendation Systems with Foundation Models

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Autori principali: Li, Zhiwei, Long, Guodong, Zhang, Chunxu, Zhang, Honglei, Jiang, Jing, Zhang, Chengqi
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author Li, Zhiwei
Long, Guodong
Zhang, Chunxu
Zhang, Honglei
Jiang, Jing
Zhang, Chengqi
author_facet Li, Zhiwei
Long, Guodong
Zhang, Chunxu
Zhang, Honglei
Jiang, Jing
Zhang, Chengqi
contents Federated Recommendation Systems (FRSs) offer a privacy-preserving alternative to traditional centralized approaches by decentralizing data storage. However, they face persistent challenges such as data sparsity and heterogeneity, largely due to isolated client environments. Recent advances in Foundation Models (FMs), particularly large language models like ChatGPT, present an opportunity to surmount these issues through powerful, cross-task knowledge transfer. In this position paper, we systematically examine the convergence of FRSs and FMs, illustrating how FM-enhanced frameworks can substantially improve client-side personalization, communication efficiency, and server-side aggregation. We also delve into pivotal challenges introduced by this integration, including privacy-security trade-offs, non-IID data, and resource constraints in federated setups, and propose prospective research directions in areas such as multimodal recommendation, real-time FM adaptation, and explainable federated reasoning. By unifying FRSs with FMs, our position paper provides a forward-looking roadmap for advancing privacy-preserving, high-performance recommendation systems that fully leverage large-scale pre-trained knowledge to enhance local performance.
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spellingShingle Navigating the Future of Federated Recommendation Systems with Foundation Models
Li, Zhiwei
Long, Guodong
Zhang, Chunxu
Zhang, Honglei
Jiang, Jing
Zhang, Chengqi
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Federated Recommendation Systems (FRSs) offer a privacy-preserving alternative to traditional centralized approaches by decentralizing data storage. However, they face persistent challenges such as data sparsity and heterogeneity, largely due to isolated client environments. Recent advances in Foundation Models (FMs), particularly large language models like ChatGPT, present an opportunity to surmount these issues through powerful, cross-task knowledge transfer. In this position paper, we systematically examine the convergence of FRSs and FMs, illustrating how FM-enhanced frameworks can substantially improve client-side personalization, communication efficiency, and server-side aggregation. We also delve into pivotal challenges introduced by this integration, including privacy-security trade-offs, non-IID data, and resource constraints in federated setups, and propose prospective research directions in areas such as multimodal recommendation, real-time FM adaptation, and explainable federated reasoning. By unifying FRSs with FMs, our position paper provides a forward-looking roadmap for advancing privacy-preserving, high-performance recommendation systems that fully leverage large-scale pre-trained knowledge to enhance local performance.
title Navigating the Future of Federated Recommendation Systems with Foundation Models
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00004