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20192026
most citedMaking Users Indistinguishable: Attribute-wise Unlearning in Recommender Systems

26 citations · 51 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.LG2026

Generalizable Multimodal Large Language Model Editing via Invariant Trajectory Learning

Jiajie Su, Haoyuan Wang, Xiaohua Feng +6

Knowledge editing emerges as a crucial technique for efficiently correcting incorrect or outdated knowledge in large language models (LLM). Existing editing methods rely on a rigid…

cs.IR2025

BiFair: A Fairness-aware Training Framework for LLM-enhanced Recommender Systems via Bi-level Optimization

Jiaming Zhang, Yuyuan Li, Yiqun Xu +4

Large Language Model-enhanced Recommender Systems (LLM-enhanced RSs) have emerged as a powerful approach to improving recommendation quality by leveraging LLMs to generate item rep…

cs.LG2025

FedFACT: A Provable Framework for Controllable Group-Fairness Calibration in Federated Learning

Li Zhang, Zhongxuan Han, Xiaohua Feng +3

With the emerging application of Federated Learning (FL) in decision-making scenarios, it is imperative to regulate model fairness to prevent disparities across sensitive groups (e…

cs.LG2025

A Neuro-inspired Interpretation of Unlearning in Large Language Models through Sample-level Unlearning Difficulty

Xiaohua Feng, Yuyuan Li, Chengye Wang +3

Driven by privacy protection laws and regulations, unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is gaining increasing attention. However, current research often neglects the interpre…

cs.LG2025

Leveraging Machine Unlearning for Cost-Efficient Preference Alignment

Xiaohua Feng, Yuyuan Li, Huwei Ji +4

Despite advances in Preference Alignment (PA) for Large Language Models (LLMs), mainstream methods like reinforcement learning with human feedback face notable challenges. These ap…

cs.IR2025

Reproducibility Companion Paper:In-processing User Constrained Dominant Sets for User-Oriented Fairness in Recommender Systems

Yixiu Liu, Zehui He, Yuyuan Li +3

In this paper, we reproduce experimental results presented in our earlier work titled "In-processing User Constrained Dominant Sets for User-Oriented Fairness in Recommender System…

cs.IR2025

Reproducibility Companion Paper: Making Users Indistinguishable: Attribute-wise Unlearning in Recommender Systems

Yuyuan Li, Junjie Fang, Chaochao Chen +3

In this paper, we reproduce the experimental results presented in our previous work titled "Making Users Indistinguishable: Attribute-wise Unlearning in Recommender Systems," which…

cs.IR2024

A Survey on Recommendation Unlearning: Fundamentals, Taxonomy, Evaluation, and Open Questions

Yuyuan Li, Xiaohua Feng, Chaochao Chen +1

Recommender systems have become increasingly influential in shaping user behavior and decision-making, highlighting their growing impact in various domains. Meanwhile, the widespre…

cs.LG2024

WassFFed: Wasserstein Fair Federated Learning

Zhongxuan Han, Li Zhang, Chaochao Chen +4

Federated Learning (FL) employs a training approach to address scenarios where users' data cannot be shared across clients. Achieving fairness in FL is imperative since training da…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

CURE4Rec: A Benchmark for Recommendation Unlearning with Deeper Influence

Chaochao Chen, Jiaming Zhang, Yizhao Zhang +5

With increasing privacy concerns in artificial intelligence, regulations have mandated the right to be forgotten, granting individuals the right to withdraw their data from models.…

cs.LG2024

Controllable Unlearning for Image-to-Image Generative Models via -Constrained Optimization

Xiaohua Feng, Yuyuan Li, Chaochao Chen +4

While generative models have made significant advancements in recent years, they also raise concerns such as privacy breaches and biases. Machine unlearning has emerged as a viable…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Post-Training Attribute Unlearning in Recommender Systems

Chaochao Chen, Yizhao Zhang, Yuyuan Li +5

With the growing privacy concerns in recommender systems, recommendation unlearning is getting increasing attention. Existing studies predominantly use training data, i.e., model i…

cs.LG2023★ 26 cited

Making Users Indistinguishable: Attribute-wise Unlearning in Recommender Systems

Yuyuan Li, Chaochao Chen, Xiaolin Zheng +4

With the growing privacy concerns in recommender systems, recommendation unlearning, i.e., forgetting the impact of specific learned targets, is getting increasing attention. Exist…

cs.IR2023★ 5 cited

In-processing User Constrained Dominant Sets for User-Oriented Fairness in Recommender Systems

Zhongxuan Han, Chaochao Chen, Xiaolin Zheng +4

Recommender systems are typically biased toward a small group of users, leading to severe unfairness in recommendation performance, i.e., User-Oriented Fairness (UOF) issue. The ex…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Class-wise Federated Unlearning: Harnessing Active Forgetting with Teacher-Student Memory Generation

Yuyuan Li, Jiaming Zhang, Yixiu Liu +1

Privacy concerns associated with machine learning models have driven research into machine unlearning, which aims to erase the memory of specific target training data from already…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Selective and Collaborative Influence Function for Efficient Recommendation Unlearning

Yuyuan Li, Chaochao Chen, Xiaolin Zheng +3

Recent regulations on the Right to be Forgotten have greatly influenced the way of running a recommender system, because users now have the right to withdraw their private data. Be…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

VoP: Text-Video Co-operative Prompt Tuning for Cross-Modal Retrieval

Siteng Huang, Biao Gong, Yulin Pan +4

Many recent studies leverage the pre-trained CLIP for text-video cross-modal retrieval by tuning the backbone with additional heavy modules, which not only brings huge computationa…

cs.IR2022★ 6 cited

Making Recommender Systems Forget: Learning and Unlearning for Erasable Recommendation

Yuyuan Li, Xiaolin Zheng, Chaochao Chen +1

Privacy laws and regulations enforce data-driven systems, e.g., recommender systems, to erase the data that concern individuals. As machine learning models potentially memorize the…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Adaptive Portfolio by Solving Multi-armed Bandit via Thompson Sampling

Mengying Zhu, Xiaolin Zheng, Yan Wang +2

As the cornerstone of modern portfolio theory, Markowitz's mean-variance optimization is considered a major model adopted in portfolio management. However, due to the difficulty of…