A hybrid decision approach to detect profile injection attacks in collaborative recommender systems

  • Authors:
  • Sheng Huang;Mingsheng Shang;Shimin Cai

  • Affiliations:
  • Web Sciences Center, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P.R. China;Web Sciences Center, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P.R. China;Web Sciences Center, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • ISMIS'12 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Foundations of Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Collaborative filtering is a vitally central technology of personalized recommendation, yet its recommended result is so sensitive to users' preferences that the recommender system has significant vulnerabilities. To overcome the addressed issue, this paper proposes a hybrid decision approach to effectively and efficiently detect profile injection attacks in collaborative recommender systems. Through modifying the algorithms of RDMA (Rating Deviation from Mean Agreement) and WDMA (Weighted Deviation form Mean Agreement), the hybrid decision approach is integrated from these modified algorithms and the UnRAP (Unsupervised Retrieval of Attack Profiles) algorithm. The extensive experiments based on three common attack models show that the proposed detection algorithm is the best comparing with the modified RDMA and WDMA or origin ones, by which the detecting accuracy significantly increases almost 35%, 25%, and 8% than the RMDA, WMDA, and UnRAP algorithms, respectively. Furthermore, for the mixed attack model, we compare it with the UnRAP algorithm and improve the 10% accuracy.