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Autori principali: Huang, Jingyuan, Luo, Dan, Ye, Zihe, Chen, Weixin, Guo, Minghao, Zhang, Yongfeng
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21388
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author Huang, Jingyuan
Luo, Dan
Ye, Zihe
Chen, Weixin
Guo, Minghao
Zhang, Yongfeng
author_facet Huang, Jingyuan
Luo, Dan
Ye, Zihe
Chen, Weixin
Guo, Minghao
Zhang, Yongfeng
contents Social recommender systems facilitate social connections by identifying potential friends for users. Each user maintains a local social network centered around themselves, resulting in a naturally distributed social structure. Recent research on distributed modeling for social recommender systems has gained increasing attention, as it naturally aligns with the user-centric structure of user interactions. Current distributed social recommender systems rely on automatically combining predictions from multiple models, often overlooking the user's active role in validating whether suggested connections are appropriate. Moreover, recommendation decisions are validated by individual users rather than derived from a single global ordering of candidates. As a result, standard ranking-based evaluation metrics make it difficult to evaluate whether a user-confirmed recommendation decision is actually correct. To address these limitations, we propose DeSocial, a distributed social recommendation framework with user-validation. DeSocial enables users to select recommendation algorithms to validate their potential connections, and the verification is processed through majority consensus among multiple independent user validators. To evaluate the distributed recommender system with user validator, we formulate this setting as a link prediction and verification task and introduce Acc@K, a consensus-based evaluation metric that measures whether user-approved recommendations are correct. Experiments on 4 real-world social networks shows that DeSocial improves decision correctness and robustness compared to single-point and distributed baselines. These findings highlight the potential of user-validated distributed recommender systems as a practical approach to social recommendation, with broader applicability to distributed and decentralized recommendations. Code: https://github.com/agiresearch/DeSocial.
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spellingShingle From Aggregation to Selection: User-Validated Distributed Social Recommendation
Huang, Jingyuan
Luo, Dan
Ye, Zihe
Chen, Weixin
Guo, Minghao
Zhang, Yongfeng
Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Social recommender systems facilitate social connections by identifying potential friends for users. Each user maintains a local social network centered around themselves, resulting in a naturally distributed social structure. Recent research on distributed modeling for social recommender systems has gained increasing attention, as it naturally aligns with the user-centric structure of user interactions. Current distributed social recommender systems rely on automatically combining predictions from multiple models, often overlooking the user's active role in validating whether suggested connections are appropriate. Moreover, recommendation decisions are validated by individual users rather than derived from a single global ordering of candidates. As a result, standard ranking-based evaluation metrics make it difficult to evaluate whether a user-confirmed recommendation decision is actually correct. To address these limitations, we propose DeSocial, a distributed social recommendation framework with user-validation. DeSocial enables users to select recommendation algorithms to validate their potential connections, and the verification is processed through majority consensus among multiple independent user validators. To evaluate the distributed recommender system with user validator, we formulate this setting as a link prediction and verification task and introduce Acc@K, a consensus-based evaluation metric that measures whether user-approved recommendations are correct. Experiments on 4 real-world social networks shows that DeSocial improves decision correctness and robustness compared to single-point and distributed baselines. These findings highlight the potential of user-validated distributed recommender systems as a practical approach to social recommendation, with broader applicability to distributed and decentralized recommendations. Code: https://github.com/agiresearch/DeSocial.
title From Aggregation to Selection: User-Validated Distributed Social Recommendation
topic Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21388