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MM-GEF: Multi-modal representation meet collaborative filtering

Information Retrieval 2024-08-15 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

In modern e-commerce, item content features in various modalities offer accurate yet comprehensive information to recommender systems. The majority of previous work either focuses on learning effective item representation during modelling user-item interactions, or exploring item-item relationships by analysing multi-modal features. Those methods, however, fail to incorporate the collaborative item-user-item relationships into the multi-modal feature-based item structure. In this work, we propose a graph-based item structure enhancement method MM-GEF: Multi-Modal recommendation with Graph Early-Fusion, which effectively combines the latent item structure underlying multi-modal contents with the collaborative signals. Instead of processing the content feature in different modalities separately, we show that the early-fusion of multi-modal features provides significant improvement. MM-GEF learns refined item representations by injecting structural information obtained from both multi-modal and collaborative signals. Through extensive experiments on four publicly available datasets, we demonstrate systematical improvements of our method over state-of-the-art multi-modal recommendation methods.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.07222,
  title  = {MM-GEF: Multi-modal representation meet collaborative filtering},
  author = {Hao Wu and Alejandro Ariza-Casabona and Bartłomiej Twardowski and Tri Kurniawan Wijaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07222},
  year   = {2024}
}
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