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Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

As one of the main solutions to the information overload problem, recommender systems are widely used in daily life. In the recent emerging micro-video recommendation scenario, micro-videos contain rich multimedia information, involving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Breda Lim , Shubhi Bansal , Ahmed Buru , Kayla Manthey

In recent years, the use of edge information provided by knowledge graphs together with the advantages of higher-order connectivity in graph neural networks for recommendation systems has become an important research direction. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhifei Hu , Feng Xia

Bundle recommendation approaches offer users a set of related items on a particular topic. The current state-of-the-art (SOTA) method utilizes contrastive learning to learn representations at both the bundle and item levels. However, due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xiaoyu Du , Kun Qian , Yunshan Ma , Xinguang Xiang

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang

Session-based recommendation techniques aim to capture dynamic user behavior by analyzing past interactions. However, existing methods heavily rely on historical item ID sequences to extract user preferences, leading to challenges such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zhipeng Zhang , Piao Tong , Yingwei Ma , Qiao Liu , Xujiang Liu , Xu Luo

Bundle recommendation seeks to recommend a bundle of related items to users to improve both user experience and the profits of platform. Existing bundle recommendation models have progressed from capturing only user-bundle interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , Xiang Wang , Yinwei Wei , Xiaoyu Du , Yuyangzi Fu , Tat-Seng Chua

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a bundle of related items to users, which can satisfy the users' various needs with one-stop convenience. Recent methods usually take advantage of both user-bundle and user-item interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

With the increasing multimedia information, multimodal recommendation has received extensive attention. It utilizes multimodal information to alleviate the data sparsity problem in recommendation systems, thus improving recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Edith C. -H. Ngai

While recommender systems with multi-modal item representations (image, audio, and text), have been widely explored, learning recommendations from multi-modal user interactions (e.g., clicks and speech) remains an open problem. We study the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Simone Borg Bruun , Krisztian Balog , Maria Maistro

Modern recommender systems face critical challenges in handling information overload while addressing the inherent limitations of multimodal representation learning. Existing methods suffer from three fundamental limitations: (1) restricted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Hewei Wang , Shuo Yang , Zitong Wan , Haibo Hu

With the development of multimedia systems, multimodal recommendations are playing an essential role, as they can leverage rich contexts beyond interactions. Existing methods mainly regard multimodal information as an auxiliary, using them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yifan Liu , Kangning Zhang , Xiangyuan Ren , Yanhua Huang , Jiarui Jin , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Ruiwen Xu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Multi-behavior recommendation (MBR) aims to improve the performance w.r.t. the target behavior (i.e., purchase) by leveraging auxiliary behaviors (e.g., click, favourite). However, in real-world scenarios, a recommendation method often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Wenhao Lai , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Many recommendation systems limit user inputs to text strings or behavior signals such as clicks and purchases, and system outputs to a list of products sorted by relevance. With the advent of generative AI, users have come to expect richer…

Multi-behavior recommendation faces a critical challenge in practice: auxiliary behaviors (e.g., clicks, carts) are often noisy, weakly correlated, or semantically misaligned with the target behavior (e.g., purchase), which leads to biased…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Miaomiao Cai , Zhijie Zhang , Junfeng Fang , Zhiyong Cheng , Xiang Wang , Meng Wang

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate the cold-start and sparsity problems in collaborative filtering by incorporating rich content information, such as product images and textual descriptions. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sibei Liu , Yuanzhe Zhang , Xiang Li , Yunbo Liu , Chengwei Feng , Hao Yang

Side information of items, e.g., images and text description, has shown to be effective in contributing to accurate recommendations. Inspired by the recent success of pre-training models on natural language and images, we propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yong Liu , Susen Yang , Chenyi Lei , Guoxin Wang , Haihong Tang , Juyong Zhang , Aixin Sun , Chunyan Miao

Multimodal recommendation aims to enhance user preference modeling by leveraging rich item content such as images and text. Yet dominant systems fuse modalities in the spatial domain, obscuring the frequency structure of signals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wei Yang , Rui Zhong , Yiqun Chen , Shixuan Li , Heng Ping , Chi Lu , Peng Jiang

Recently, multimodal recommendations (MMR) have gained increasing attention for alleviating the data sparsity problem of traditional recommender systems by incorporating modality-based representations. Although MMR exhibits notable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Weixin Chen , Li Chen , Yongxin Ni , Yuhan Zhao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in generating responses based on visual inputs. However, they often suffer from a bias towards generating responses similar to their pretraining corpus, overshadowing the importance of visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Renjie Pi , Tianyang Han , Wei Xiong , Jipeng Zhang , Runtao Liu , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang