Federated Recommendation Systems (FRSs) combined with Foundation Models (FMs) have the potential to improve client-side personalization and communication efficiency.
The integration of FRSs and FMs can address challenges such as data sparsity and heterogeneity in client environments.
Privacy-security trade-offs, non-IID data, and resource constraints are among the challenges introduced by this integration.
Research directions proposed in this position paper include multimodal recommendation, real-time FM adaptation, and explainable federated reasoning.