Federated recommender systems(FedRecs) have garnered increasing attention recently, thanks to their privacypreserving benefits. However, the decentralized and open characteristics of current FedRecs present at least t...
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Federated recommender systems(FedRecs) have garnered increasing attention recently, thanks to their privacypreserving benefits. However, the decentralized and open characteristics of current FedRecs present at least two ***, the performance of FedRecs is compromised due to highly sparse on-device data for each client. Second, the system's robustness is undermined by the vulnerability to model poisoning attacks launched by malicious users. In this paper, we introduce a novel contrastive learning framework designed to fully leverage the client's sparse data through embedding augmentation, referred to as CL4FedRec. Unlike previous contrastive learning approaches in FedRecs that necessitate clients to share their private parameters, our CL4FedRec aligns with the basic FedRec learning protocol, ensuring compatibility with most existing FedRec implementations. We then evaluate the robustness of FedRecs equipped with CL4FedRec by subjecting it to several state-of-the-art model poisoning attacks. Surprisingly, our observations reveal that contrastive learning tends to exacerbate the vulnerability of FedRecs to these attacks. This is attributed to the enhanced embedding uniformity, making the polluted target item embedding easily proximate to popular items. Based on this insight, we propose an enhanced and robust version of CL4FedRec(rCL4FedRec) by introducing a regularizer to maintain the distance among item embeddings with different popularity levels. Extensive experiments conducted on four commonly used recommendation datasets demonstrate that rCL4FedRec significantly enhances both the model's performance and the robustness of FedRecs.
This paper presents a photonic scheme for generating multi-format, multi-band, and reconfigurable microwave photonic signals through cascaded external modulation. The proposed system utilize dual-parallel Mach–Zehnde...
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Purpose-The Internet of Things(IoT)cloud platforms provide end-to-end solutions that integrate various capabilities such as application development,device and connectivity management,data storage,data analysis and dat...
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Purpose-The Internet of Things(IoT)cloud platforms provide end-to-end solutions that integrate various capabilities such as application development,device and connectivity management,data storage,data analysis and data *** high use of these platforms results in their huge availability provided by different ***,choosing the optimal IoT cloud platform to develop IoT applications successfully has become *** key purpose of the present study is to implement a hybrid multi-attribute decision-making approach(MADM)to evaluate and select IoT cloud ***/methodology/approach-The optimal selection of the IoT cloud platforms seems to be dependent on multiple ***,the optimal selection of IoT cloud platforms problem is modeled as a MADM problem,and a hybrid approach named neutrosophic fuzzy set-Euclidean taxicab distance-based approach(NFS-ETDBA)is implemented to solve the ***-ETDBA works on the calculation of assessment score for each alternative,*** cloud platforms,by combining two different measures:Euclidean and taxicab ***-A case study to illustrate the working of the proposed NFS-ETDBA for optimal selection of IoT cloud platforms is *** results obtained on the basis of calculated assessment scores depict that“Azure IoT suite”is the most preferable IoT cloud platform,whereas“Salesman IoT cloud”is the least ***/value-The proposed NFS-ETDBA methodology for the IoT cloud platform selection is implemented for the first time in this *** is highly capable of handling the large number of alternatives and the selection attributes involved in any decision-making ***,the use of fuzzy set theory(FST)makes it very easy to handle the impreciseness that may occur during the data collection through a questionnaire from a group of experts.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAvs)as aerial base stations to provide communication services for ground users is a flexible and cost-effective paradigm in ***,dynamic resource allocation and multi-connectivity can be adopt...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAvs)as aerial base stations to provide communication services for ground users is a flexible and cost-effective paradigm in ***,dynamic resource allocation and multi-connectivity can be adopted to further harness the potentials of UAVs in improving communication capacity,in such situations such that the interference among users becomes a pivotal disincentive requiring effective *** this end,we investigate the Joint UAV-User Association,Channel Allocation,and transmission Power Control(J-UACAPC)problem in a multi-connectivity-enabled UAV network with constrained backhaul links,where each UAV can determine the reusable channels and transmission power to serve the selected ground *** goal was to mitigate co-channel interference while maximizing long-term system *** problem was modeled as a cooperative stochastic game with hybrid discrete-continuous action space.A Multi-Agent Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning(MAHDRL)algorithm was proposed to address this *** simulation results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and showed that it has a higher system utility than the baseline methods.
The security of smart contract has always been one of the significant problems in blockchain. As shown in previous studies, vulnerabilities in smart contracts can lead to unpredictable losses. With the rapid growth of...
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In the digital world, text data is produced in an unstructured manner across various communication channels. Extracting valuable information from such data with security is crucial and requires the development of tech...
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The advancements in medical imaging techniques have brought exponential increase in the quantity and complexity of data which often require human expertise for interpretation and decision making. However, in real-worl...
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Power line communication (PLC) systems enable information exchange over existing electric power grids at a low deployment cost. Such systems constitute a crucial component of smart grids. However, PLC is negatively af...
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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays a crucial role in facilitating natural and efficient human–computer interaction. This paper offers a comprehensive review of ASR systems tailored specifically for the Gujarati...
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Due to the advantages of maneuverability and the small size of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can be deployed for them to provide computing services. Because the computing resourc...
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