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Multimodal recommender systems utilize various types of information to model user preferences and item features, helping users discover items aligned with their interests. The integration of multimodal information mitigates the inherent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang , Daifeng Li , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin , Liang Lin

While the incipient internet was largely text-based, the modern digital world is becoming increasingly multi-modal. Here, we examine multi-modal classification where one modality is discrete, e.g. text, and the other is continuous, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-09 D. Kiela , E. Grave , A. Joulin , T. Mikolov

Multi-modal recommendation (MMR) enriches item representations by introducing item content, e.g., visual and textual descriptions, to improve upon interaction-only recommenders. The success of MMR hinges on aligning these content modalities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Congbo Ma , Feng Liu , Flora. D. Salim

Multimodal recommendation systems (MMRS) have received considerable attention from the research community due to their ability to jointly utilize information from user behavior and product images and text. Previous research has two main…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Guojiao Lin , Zhen Meng , Dongjie Wang , Qingqing Long , Yuanchun Zhou , Meng Xiao

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next interaction of a user based on their behavior sequence, where complementary relations often provide essential signals for predicting the next item. However, mainstream models relying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qian Zhang , Lech Szymanski , Haibo Zhang , Jeremiah D. Deng

Multimodal recommendation has attracted extensive attention by leveraging heterogeneous modality information to alleviate data sparsity and improve recommendation accuracy. Existing methods have attempted to replace ID embeddings with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongjian Ma , Wenxin Huang , Yan Zhang , Zhifei Li , Zheng Wang

Learning effective latent representations for users and items is the cornerstone of recommender systems. Traditional approaches rely on user-item interaction data to map users and items into a shared latent space, but the sparsity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hoang V. Dong , Yuan Fang , Hady W. Lauw

Multi-modal sentiment analysis plays an important role for providing better interactive experiences to users. Each modality in multi-modal data can provide different viewpoints or reveal unique aspects of a user's emotional state. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Debapriya Banerjee , Fotios Lygerakis , Fillia Makedon

Many recommender models have been proposed to investigate how to incorporate multimodal content information into traditional collaborative filtering framework effectively. The use of multimodal information is expected to provide more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jinghao Zhang , Guofan Liu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

The knowledge concept recommendation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is a significant issue that has garnered widespread attention. Existing methods primarily rely on the explicit relations between users and knowledge concepts on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Hengnian Gu , Zhiyi Duan , Pan Xie , Dongdai Zhou

With the rapid increase of micro-video creators and viewers, how to make personalized recommendations from a large number of candidates to viewers begins to attract more and more attention. However, existing micro-video recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Beibei Li , Beihong Jin , Jiageng Song , Yisong Yu , Yiyuan Zheng , Wei Zhuo

This paper describes an attention-based fusion method for outfit recommendation which fuses the information in the product image and description to capture the most important, fine-grained product features into the item representation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Katrien Laenen , Marie-Francine Moens

The importance of recommender systems is growing rapidly due to the exponential increase in the volume of content generated daily. This surge in content presents unique challenges for designing effective recommender systems. Key among these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jiahao Tian , Jinman Zhao , Zhenkai Wang , Zhicheng Ding

Multimodal pathological images are usually in clinical diagnosis, but computer vision-based multimodal image-assisted diagnosis faces challenges with modality fusion, especially in the absence of expert-annotated data. To achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Qinghua Lin , Guang-Hai Liu , Zuoyong Li , Yang Li , Yuting Jiang , Xiang Wu

Multi-modal entity alignment aims to identify equivalent entities between two different multi-modal knowledge graphs, which consist of structural triples and images associated with entities. Most previous works focus on how to utilize and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhenxi Lin , Ziheng Zhang , Meng Wang , Yinghui Shi , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng

Graph-based collaborative filtering has emerged as a powerful paradigm for delivering personalized recommendations. Despite their demonstrated effectiveness, these methods often neglect the underlying intents of users, which constitute a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jiahao Wu , Wenqi Fan , Shengcai Liu , Qijiong Liu , Qing Li , Ke Tang

Having access to multi-modal cues (e.g. vision and audio) empowers some cognitive tasks to be done faster compared to learning from a single modality. In this work, we propose to transfer knowledge across heterogeneous modalities, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Yanbei Chen , Yongqin Xian , A. Sophia Koepke , Ying Shan , Zeynep Akata

Spatial and temporal stream model has gained great success in video action recognition. Most existing works pay more attention to designing effective features fusion methods, which train the two-stream model in a separate way. However, it's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Jingran Zhang , Fumin Shen , Xing Xu , Heng Tao Shen

Developing effective multimodal data fusion strategies has become increasingly essential for improving the predictive power of statistical machine learning methods across a wide range of applications, from autonomous driving to medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ziyi Liang , Annie Qu , Babak Shahbaba

Multimodal hateful content detection is a challenging task that requires complex reasoning across visual and textual modalities. Therefore, creating a meaningful multimodal representation that effectively captures the interplay between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Eftekhar Hossain , Omar Sharif , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque , Sarah M. Preum