Research Article

Achieving Privacy-Preserving Group Recommendation with Local Differential Privacy and Random Transmission

Table 1

Notations.

NotationMeaning

Number of users
Number of movies
Number of latent factors
Rating generated by user for movie , which could be null
User ’s preference ratings predicted by personalized recommendation under LDP,
A group
Number of group members
Group preferences of movie
Number of iterations
Total number of ratings
User ’s user vector
Movie ’s item vector
Regularization coefficient
Learning rate
Privacy budget
Gradient matrix for at each iteration
Change value during the transmission in IntPPA
The probability that user’s profile is sent to group members
()Group members need to execute IntPPA algorithm after (before) this time