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Podcast: Recsperts - Recommender Systems Experts
Episode: #4: Adversarial Machine Learning for Recommenders with Felice Merra
Description: In episode four my guest is Felice Merra, who is an applied scientist at Amazon. Felice obtained his PhD from Politecnico di Bari where he was a researcher at the Information Systems Lab (SisInf Lab). There, he worked on Security and Adversarial Machine Learning in Recommender Systems.We talk about different ways to perturb interaction or content data, but also model parameters, and elaborated various defense strategies.In addition, we touch on the motivation of individuals or whole platforms to perform attacks and look at some examples that Felice has been working on throughout his research.<...