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cs.IR2026

Beyond Centralization: User-Controlled Federated Recommendations in Practice

Manel Slokom, Alejandro Bellogin

Recommendation systems typically require centralized user data, limiting user control and raising privacy concerns. Federated learning offers an alternative by keeping data on-devi…

cs.IR2026

LLMDiRec: LLM-Enhanced Intent Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation

Bo-Chian Chen, Manel Slokom

Existing sequential recommendation models, even advanced diffusion-based approaches, often struggle to capture the rich semantic intent underlying user behavior, especially for new…

cs.IR2025

FedFlex: Federated Learning for Diverse Netflix Recommendations

Sven Lankester, Gustavo de Carvalho Bertoli, Matias Vizcaino +2

The drive for personalization in recommender systems creates a tension between user privacy and the risk of "filter bubbles". Although federated learning offers a promising paradig…

cs.IR2024

On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: A UserKNN case study

Savvina Daniil, Manel Slokom, Mirjam Cuper +3

Statements on the propagation of bias by recommender systems are often hard to verify or falsify. Research on bias tends to draw from a small pool of publicly available datasets an…

cs.IR2024

How to Diversify any Personalized Recommender?

Manel Slokom, Savvina Danil, Laura Hollink

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to improve the diversity of Top-N recommendations while maintaining accuracy. Our approach employs a user-centric pre-processing strate…

cs.IR2022

Minimizing Mindless Mentions: Recommendation with Minimal Necessary User Reviews

Danny Stax, Manel Slokom, Martha Larson

Recently, researchers have turned their attention to recommender systems that use only minimal necessary data. This trend is informed by the idea that recommender systems should us…

cs.IR2021

Doing Data Right: How Lessons Learned Working with Conventional Data should Inform the Future of Synthetic Data for Recommender Systems

Manel Slokom, Martha Larson

We present a case that the newly emerging field of synthetic data in the area of recommender systems should prioritize `doing data right'. We consider this catchphrase to have two…

cs.IR2020★ 7 cited

Partially Synthetic Data for Recommender Systems: Prediction Performance and Preference Hiding

Manel Slokom, Martha Larson, Alan Hanjalic

This paper demonstrates the potential of statistical disclosure control for protecting the data used to train recommender systems. Specifically, we use a synthetic data generation…