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Title: Privacy-preserving recommendation system using federated learning
Author: Basu, Rahul
View Online: njit-etd2020-043
(xi, 83 pages ~ 1.1 MB pdf)
Department: Department of Computer Science
Degree: Master of Science
Program: Data Science
Document Type: Thesis
Advisory Committee: Wang, Guiling (Committee chair)
Wei, Zhi (Committee member)
Koutis, Ioannis (Committee member)
Date: 2020-05
Keywords: Federated learning
Distributed learning
Availability: Unrestricted
Abstract:

Federated Learning is a form of distributed learning which leverages edge devices for training. It aims to preserve privacy by communicating users' learning parameters and gradient updates to the global server during the training while keeping the actual data on the users' devices. The training on global server is performed on these parameters instead of user data directly while fine tuning of the model can be done on client's devices locally. However, federated learning is not without its shortcomings and in this thesis, we present an overview of the learning paradigm and propose a new federated recommender system framework that utilizes homomorphic encryption. This results in a slight decrease in accuracy metrics but leads to greatly increased user-privacy. We also show that performing computations on encrypted gradients barely affects the recommendation performance while ensuring a more secure means of communicating user gradients to and from the global server.


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