[2603.20283] FastPFRec: A Fast Personalized Federated Recommendation with Secure Sharing

Computer Science > Information Retrieval arXiv:2603.20283 (cs) [Submitted on 18 Mar 2026] Title:FastPFRec: A Fast Personalized Federated Recommendation with Secure Sharing Authors:Zhenxing Yan, Jidong Yuan, Yongqi Sun, Haiyang Liu, Zhihui Gao View a PDF of the paper titled FastPFRec: A Fast Personalized Federated Recommendation with Secure Sharing, by Zhenxing Yan and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Graph neural network (GNN)-based federated recommendation systems effectively capture user-item relationships while preserving data privacy. However, existing methods often face slow convergence on graph data and privacy leakage risks during collaboration. To address these challenges, we propose FastPFRec (Fast Personalized Federated Recommendation with Secure Sharing), a novel framework that enhances both training efficiency and data security. FastPFRec accelerates model convergence through an efficient local update strategy and introduces a privacy-aware parameter sharing mechanism to mitigate leakage risks. Experiments on four real-world datasets (Yelp, Kindle, Gowalla-100k, and Gowalla-1m) show that FastPFRec achieves 32.0% fewer training rounds, 34.1% shorter training time, and 8.1% higher accuracy compared with existing baselines. These results demonstrate that FastPFRec provides an efficient and privacy-preserving solution for scalable federated recommendation. Subjects: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Machine Learning (cs.LG) ACM classes: H.2.8; H.3...