Privacy and Fairness in Recommender Systems via Adversarial Training of User Representations

@inproceedings{Resheff2018PrivacyAF,
  title={Privacy and Fairness in Recommender Systems via Adversarial Training of User Representations},
  author={Yehezkel S. Resheff and Yanai Elazar and Shimon Shahar and Oren Sar Shalom},
  booktitle={International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods},
  year={2018}
}
Latent factor models for recommender systems represent users and items as low dimensional vectors. Privacy risks of such systems have previously been studied mostly in the context of recovery of personal information in the form of usage records from the training data. However, the user representations themselves may be used together with external data to recover private user information such as gender and age. In this paper we show that user vectors calculated by a common recommender system can… 
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