-FedVAE: Detached Posterior-Confidence Gating for Dimension-Wise KL Regularization in Personalized Federated Collaborative Filtering
: Federated Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) keep interaction data local, but existing federated VAE recommenders typically apply uniform KL regularization and do not adapt dimension-wise penalties to unreliable posteriors in sparse interaction scenarios. We propose α -FedVAE, which uses a detached, clipped normalized s...