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Content creators often use music to enhance their videos, from soundtracks in movies to background music in video blogs and social media content. However, identifying the best music for a video can be a difficult and time-consuming task. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shanti Stewart , Gouthaman KV , Lie Lu , Andrea Fanelli

Multi-modal learning aims to enhance performance by unifying models from various modalities but often faces the "modality imbalance" problem in real data, leading to a bias towards dominant modalities and neglecting others, thereby limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yang Yang , Hongpeng Pan , Qing-Yuan Jiang , Yi Xu , Jinghui Tang

Multimodal multilabel classification (MMC) is a challenging task that aims to design a learning algorithm to handle two data sources, the image and text, and learn a comprehensive semantic feature presentation across the modalities. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yanming Guo

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

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…

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Sequential recommendation methods play a pivotal role in modern recommendation systems. A key challenge lies in accurately modeling user preferences in the face of data sparsity. To tackle this challenge, recent methods leverage contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Shaowei Wei , Zhengwei Wu , Xin Li , Qintong Wu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Lihong Gu , Jinjie Gu

This paper studies the multi-modal recommendation problem, where the item multi-modality information (e.g., images and textual descriptions) is exploited to improve the recommendation accuracy. Besides the user-item interaction graph,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xin Zhou , Hongyu Zhou , Yong Liu , Zhiwei Zeng , Chunyan Miao , Pengwei Wang , Yuan You , Feijun Jiang

Designing an effective representation learning method for multimodal sentiment analysis tasks is a crucial research direction. The challenge lies in learning both shared and private information in a complete modal representation, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Songning Lai , Jiakang Li , Guinan Guo , Xifeng Hu , Yulong Li , Yuan Tan , Zichen Song , Yutong Liu , Zhaoxia Ren , Chun Wan , Danmin Miao , Zhi Liu

The multimodal recommendation has gradually become the infrastructure of online media platforms, enabling them to provide personalized service to users through a joint modeling of user historical behaviors (e.g., purchases, clicks) and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zhiqiang Guo , Jianjun Li , Guohui Li , Chaoyang Wang , Si Shi , Bin Ruan

Multi-modal contrastive learning (MMCL) has recently garnered considerable interest due to its superior performance in visual tasks, achieved by embedding multi-modal data, such as visual-language pairs. However, there still lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Semi-supervised learning addresses the issue of limited annotations in medical images effectively, but its performance is often inadequate for complex backgrounds and challenging tasks. Multi-modal fusion methods can significantly improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Dongdong Meng , Sheng Li , Hao Wu , Guoping Wang , Xueqing Yan

Deep learning-based AMC methods have achieved remarkable performance, but their practical deployment remains constrained by the high cost of labeled data. Although self-supervised learning (SSL) reduces the reliance on labels, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Chenxu Wang , Shuang Wang , Lirong Han , Xinyu Hu , Hanlin Mo , Hantong Xing , Licheng Jiao

Cross-modal learning has become a fundamental paradigm for integrating heterogeneous information sources such as images, text, and structured attributes. However, multimodal representations often suffer from modality dominance, redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuecheng Li , Weikuan Jia , Alisher Kurbonaliev , Qurbonaliev Alisher , Khudzhamkulov Rustam , Ismoilov Shuhratjon , Eshmatov Javhariddin , Yuanjie Zheng

Multimodal intent recognition aims to leverage diverse modalities such as expressions, body movements and tone of speech to comprehend user's intent, constituting a critical task for understanding human language and behavior in real-world…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Qianrui Zhou , Hua Xu , Hao Li , Hanlei Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Yifan Wang , Kai Gao

In a wide range of multimodal tasks, contrastive learning has become a particularly appealing approach since it can successfully learn representations from abundant unlabeled data with only pairing information (e.g., image-caption or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Paul Pu Liang , Zihao Deng , Martin Ma , James Zou , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Erdun Gao , Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Humans perceive the world through multisensory integration, blending the information of different modalities to adapt their behavior. Contrastive learning offers an appealing solution for multimodal self-supervised learning. Indeed, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Benoit Dufumier , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia , Jean-Philippe Thiran

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

The rapid growth of social media has resulted in an explosion of online news content, leading to a significant increase in the spread of misleading or false information. While machine learning techniques have been widely applied to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hao Chen , Hui Guo , Baochen Hu , Shu Hu , Jinrong Hu , Siwei Lyu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang