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RecPS: Privacy Risk Scoring for Recommender Systems

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Author

Jiajie He, Yuechun Gu, Keke Chen

Outline

This paper proposes a method to quantify the privacy risk of training data for recommender systems (RecSys). Existing RecSys utilizes sensitive user-item interaction data, but lacks privacy protection. While users have the right to withhold sensitive interaction information, the problem is that it is difficult to determine which interactions are more sensitive. Therefore, this paper proposes RecPS, a privacy score measurement method based on membership inference attacks (MIA). RecPS measures privacy risk at both the interaction and user levels, and the interaction-level score is derived from the concept of differential privacy. Its core component is RecLiRA, an interaction-level MIA method that provides high-quality membership estimation. Experimental results demonstrate that the RecPS score is effective for risk assessment and untraining RecSys models.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
A new method for quantitatively measuring the privacy risk of RecSys training data (RecPS) is presented.
Privacy risk assessment at the interaction and user level is possible.
Presentation of theoretical basis based on the concept of differential privacy protection
Development of the RecLiRA algorithm that provides high-quality membership estimation.
Presenting the potential of RecSys model unlearning.
Limitations:
The performance of RecPS may depend on the accuracy of the MIA attack.
Verification of generalization performance on various types of RecSys models and data in real-world situations is required.
Further research is needed on establishing and implementing privacy policies based on RecPS scores.
Focusing on specific MIA attacks may not adequately cover other types of privacy breach risks.
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