Federated Recommender System with Data Valuation for E-commerce Platform

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11196v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:48:23 GMT
• Title: Federated Recommender System with Data Valuation for E-commerce Platform
• Authors: Jongwon Park, Minku Kang, Wooseok Sim, Soyoung Lee, Hogun Park,
• Abstract summary: Federated Learning (FL) is gaining prominence in machine learning as privacy concerns grow.<n>Most existing FL-based recommender systems still rely solely on each client's private data.<n>We propose FedGDVE, which selectively augments each client's local graph with semantically aligned samples from the global dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is gaining prominence in machine learning as privacy concerns grow. This paradigm allows each client (e.g., an individual online store) to train a recommendation model locally while sharing only model updates, without exposing the raw interaction logs to a central server, thereby preserving privacy in a decentralized environment. Nonetheless, most existing FL-based recommender systems still rely solely on each client's private data, despite the abundance of publicly available datasets that could be leveraged to enrich local training; this potential remains largely underexplored. To this end, we consider a realistic scenario wherein a large shopping platform collaborates with multiple small online stores to build a global recommender system. The platform possesses global data, such as shareable user and item lists, while each store holds a portion of interaction data privately (or locally). Although integrating global data can help mitigate the limitations of sparse and biased clients' local data, it also introduces additional challenges: simply combining all global interactions can amplify noise and irrelevant patterns, worsening personalization and increasing computational costs. To address these challenges, we propose FedGDVE, which selectively augments each client's local graph with semantically aligned samples from the global dataset. FedGDVE employs: (i) a pre-trained graph encoder to extract global structural features, (ii) a local valid predictor to assess client-specific relevance, (iii) a reinforcement-learning-based probability estimator to filter and sample only the most pertinent global interactions. FedGDVE improves performance by up to 34.86% on recognized benchmarks in FL environments.

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