Privacy Preserving Recommender Systems Balancing Personalization with Privacy
arXiv cs.AI 18 hours ago
Researchers developed a privacy-preserving recommendation system framework combining federated learning, differential privacy, and cohort-level modeling for e-commerce platforms. The framework maintained competitive recommendation quality at moderate privacy budgets with epsilon approximately 5, evaluated across metrics including Click-Through Rate, Precision@K, Recall@K, and NDCG@K on synthetic retail datasets. Organizations can now deploy recommendation systems that balance personalization with regulatory compliance requirements without substantially degrading recommendation performance.