EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Hung-Yun Chiang
dblp:304/4943
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0009-0009-0940-1816ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Recommender systems
review-based recommendation |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Shilling Black-box Review-based Recommender Systems through Fake Review Generation · KDD 2023 |
Security and privacy of machine learning
recommender system attack |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Shilling Black-box Review-based Recommender Systems through Fake Review Generation · KDD 2023 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › recommender system attack
shilling attacks |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Shilling Black-box Review-based Recommender Systems through Fake Review Generation · KDD 2023 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
text generation |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Shilling Black-box Review-based Recommender Systems through Fake Review Generation · KDD 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning · 2.0pre-trained language model · 2.0adversarial training · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Shilling Black-box Review-based Recommender Systems through Fake Review GenerationabstractReview-Based Recommender Systems (RBRS) have attracted increasing research interest due to their ability to alleviate well-known cold-start problems. RBRS utilizes reviews to construct the user and items representations. However, in this paper, we argue that such a reliance on reviews may instead expose systems to the risk of being shilled. To explore this possibility, in this paper, we propose the first generation-based model for shilling attacks against RBRSs. Specifically, we learn a fake review generator through reinforcement learning, which maliciously promotes items by forcing prediction shifts after adding generated reviews to the system. By introducing the auxiliary rewards to increase text fluency and diversity with the aid of pre-trained language models and aspect predictors, the generated reviews can be effective for shilling with high fidelity. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework can successfully attack three different kinds of RBRSs on the Amazon corpus with three domains and Yelp corpus. Furthermore, human studies also show that the generated reviews are fluent and informative. Finally, equipped with Attack Review Generators (ARGs), RBRSs with adversarial training are much more robust to malicious reviews. Hung-Yun Chiang, Yi-Syuan Chen, Yun-Zhu Song, Hong-Han Shuai, Jason S. Chang |
KDD | 1 |